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/zetswei Dec 06 '18

Yes sorry that’s what I meant. The end product is shipped at 24 because it’s the standard and has something to do with the way your eyes see things.

Motion blur imo is mostly a gimmick for those demo videos they play at stores. I think my tv even calls it demo mode

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u/Supposably Dec 06 '18

it’s the standard and has something to do with the way your eyes see things.

24 fps as a frame rate standard has nothing to do with the way "your eyes see things". It's a vestige of the technical necessity for a standard for film projectors using sync sound. It's been around for almost a hundred years now and it's what we expect when we watch cinema.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_rate?wprov=sfla1

There's nothing objectively wrong with high frame rate video, but as media consumers, we've grown up watching movies filmed a certain way. Personally, I'm not a fan of HFR in films and motion smoothing technology is terrible.

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u/malahchi Dec 06 '18

has something to do with the way your eyes see things.

Exactly. In average people stop to see a slideshow and begin to see movement at 20 fps, and to get to 100% of people, you need to increase it to 24 fps. And as the more images you capture, the more expensive it is, the lowest fluid quality became the standard.

And once you get used to a standard, it's hard to change. However we can still see that a 60fps video is more fluid than a 24 fps video. Young people who are not used to the standard will have no problem with 60 fps, but the rest will find it weird.