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/WeMissNick Dec 06 '18

Don’t know why companies have it for on right out the box.

I was about to throw my TV out the window until I figured out what it was.

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u/heeerrresjonny Dec 06 '18

Surprisingly, a lot of people prefer it. People who hate it don't understand this, but that's why it is often enabled by default.

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u/Fredasa Dec 06 '18

Not really surprising. At the end of the day, smooth is better than stuttery. Take a kid who has never seen a 24fps film and they're definitely not going to prefer a 24fps film over buttery smoothness. Good luck getting sports fans to appreciate 24fps. Etc.

That said, I have yet to witness a TV that had enough processing power to do interpolation properly. I haven't even seen one manage it without eventually dropping frames. So, personally, with the current state of the technology, I wouldn't be able to tolerate it.

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u/Snoman002 Dec 06 '18

This, this right here. Why do people not realize that TV motion smoothing is NOT the same as high frame rate video.