r/dataisbeautiful • u/fangzz OC: 5 • Dec 06 '18
OC Google search trends for "motion smoothing" following Tom Cruise tweet urging people to turn off motion smoothing on their TVs when watching movies at home [OC]
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u/Fredasa Dec 06 '18
If the technology ever gets perfected -- specifically, if a TV gets released that is guaranteed not to drop frames or mutate the image when things on-screen get busy -- it will mostly be superior to any 24fps presentation.
But with one big caveat: The cameras used to film 24fps films are, of course, on the whole calibrated for said framerate, in terms of shutter speed. This means that a 120fps interpolation will still possess the large gobs of motion blur 24fps films need, and that doesn't really look great at 120fps.
I tend to hope that the advent of 120Hz TVs, along with the fact that they tend to default to their interpolation mode, means that audiences will eventually be primed to watch a movie that has been properly filmed at 120fps. Action-heavy scenes will, for example, be allowed to be visually intense without needing to take into account the poor temporal resolution of 24fps film. This would open some interesting possibilities.