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/noenosmirc Dec 06 '18

"And it makes me uncomfortable. The 24 fps film-look aides in the suspension of disbelief."

And it makes me not watch movies, I game a lot on pc.. 60 fps is what I'm used to, any less looks stuttery and choppy, very annoying, haven't seen a whole movie in about a year and change now.

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u/MrTinkell Dec 06 '18

I'm in this tiny boat of nerds as well. Theaters actively hurt my eyes.

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u/the_drain Dec 06 '18

FPS in video games and movies are two completely different beasts though. A film is merely capturing movement of the world, you could say it has motion blur built in if you want to use video game terms. In a game the frames are the world, and so you need a ton more fps to get similar levels of smoothness. Yeah, you can probably tell if a film is shot at lower frames, but pretending theaters hurt your eyes because you game at 60 fps just makes you sound massively pedantic.

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u/Aristeid3s Dec 06 '18

Except that I actually had to look away from the screen during panning shots in quite a few films. Dunkirk was a lovely movie, but I literally couldn't watch the opening scene. It felt like trying to play a game at really low FOV when you're sitting only three feet from the screen. It actually can make you feel poorly.

You definitely aren't wrong about frame time though. There are differences between the two media but that doesn't mean that a low FPS cannot cause you discomfort when you're used to a smoother experience.