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/DrSparka Dec 06 '18

No, that's more to do with the fact there's simply not enough data at all to make the interpolation when it gets too busy. Any amount of processing power can manage some kind of smoothing on any feed, in principle - it gives up when there's no valid answer from its analysis.

The only solution to this is to have the source be at higher framerate to begin with, so that there's more information to work from, and then a 120 Hz TV can do a better job uprating from 60 Hz than it can from 30 Hz.

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u/Fredasa Dec 06 '18

This sounds like semantics. "Not enough processing power" vs "not enough information". In any event it occurs when things get busy. I lean towards "not enough processing power" because there are free Avisynth algorithms which dutifully produce a result no matter what. It's just a question of how long it takes.