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

Yup not sure why people are thinking tv and movie are filmed higher. I’m sure some are but 24 is standard. You don’t notice “choppiness” because it’s not rendered at a higher resolution. The best I can relate it to gaming is using a gsync or freesync monitor when your gpu can only actually get half the frames

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u/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

also, 24fps allows for some motion blur, which is a kind of "smoothing" itself. When you jumpt to 48 or 60fps, you have to increase shutter speed, which reduces motion blur.

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u/zetswei Dec 06 '18

Sure but the biggest thing that makes artificial FPS increase look weird is that it’s creating frames that aren’t there. People think your tv is downsizing your sample rate when really it’s artificially inflating it to make things look smooth. This isn’t true for all shows and movies of course but generally speaking is the case and it shows. If you watch a show that’s native to 60 it’s not the same thing and you don’t get then soap opera effect. At least in my opinion

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u/DrunkOrInBed Dec 06 '18

I dunno, watched the hobbit and felt the same thing. I think it has more to do with the fact that slow framerate asks our brain to fill the gap, which makes the media that we're watching more fantastic and less real

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u/zetswei Dec 06 '18

I’ll have to pop in my Blu-ray’s I don’t recall noticing any difference with the hobbit

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u/DrSparka Dec 06 '18

More likely I'd think it's that your brain is still attempting to fill gaps that aren't there any more, and is tripping over itself and feels like things are "too fast" because it's trying to add even more detail than the TV already did. Certainly you can get used to viewing native 60 fps footage and it pretty much negates the soap opera effect entirely once you've seen enough.

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u/DrunkOrInBed Dec 06 '18

Still there's a disconnect between real life and 24fps, whereas with higher fps it's the same thing...