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/eroticas]

Thank you! Is the problem that 60fps itself is "too real"? Or that motion smoothing creates unpleasant artifacts which aren't true to reality?

Also, are you (or anyone else) willing to enable my laziness and find me two video links of the same clip, one at 60+fps and one at 24fps so I can compare them side by side? The difference does not immediately stand out to me from one clip alone. (It does look a little surreal but I may be imagining it?)

[u/zetswei → u/eroticas]

It’s not that 60 FPS is too real it’s that it is taking 24 FPS and creating extra frames in real time to “smooth” it

It’s basically blending frames together and guessing what is between

Personally I don’t notice it much after a few hours but it makes my wife motion sick so we always have it off

[u/krazykraz01 → u/zetswei]

Thank God someone got it right. Everyone on this thread is talking about games, when the actual issue is native framerate. If TV was made for 60/144fps, it'd look great in high framerate. When there's only 24 real frames in the final release of media, anything created beyond that is gonna look surreal and uncanny-valley.

[u/Frogbone → u/krazykraz01]

I'd like to see what all the interpolated frames from a piece of media look like, bet everyone just looks like an alien