It’s the setting to disable on smart TVs for a better image. The option can do oone or more of the following: adds in-between frames, reduces noise, and upscales video. Sounds good, but the implementation is always terrible.
Is this what that uncanny “too smooth” look is on my parents TV? Whenever I’d go to visit them whatever they had on always looked like the camera motion or character movement was way too smooth to the point it was kind of unsettling.
Animators too. FFS, when you deliberately position a character to look fluid, life-like, and emphatic at a frame rate, you have to respect it, or you lose it! Adding frames willy-nilly ruins movies and animation. Don’t like it? Wanna be a gamer? Well, maybe just sit tight and accept that you have to trust that the artist, idfk, knew how to do their fucking job.
Personal rant here. I hate automated interpolation. I would literally prefer it if you deep-fried my work by overcompressing it over and over to ‘save space.’
But they are not universally bad. OLED screens have almost instantaneous response times, which if paired with lateral movement and content shot at 24 FPS can become a stuttery mess instead of a smooth camera pan. In some movies, it’s enough to give me a headache.
In those scenarios, one of the interpolation settings available on my LG C1 instantly fixes the issue and does not add significant artifacts. The goal isn’t simulating 120 FPS on a TV show, but working around content filmed at abysmally low FPS (which was relevant when film was expensive and we used blurry TVs, not good for 2025).
This is in regard to motion smoothing which is enabled by default on modern TVs, and give the effect of a soap opera look. People think that it makes the video look better, but it’s just adding fake frames to display at a higher frame rate. Not a lot of people like this: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/motion-smoothing-how-to-shut-off-1235176633/
To make matters worse, all TV brands have their own name for this feature. This post is saying that when you go home for the holidays, this is the name of the motion smoothing in the settings to turn off for a better viewing experience the way the filmmaker intends.
Oh god this must be what my parents have on their TV- I thought it looked that way bc it’s 4k. A soap opera look is exactly how I described it! That’s been my only exposure to new/smart TVs
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It’s the setting to disable on smart TVs for a better image. The option can do oone or more of the following: adds in-between frames, reduces noise, and upscales video. Sounds good, but the implementation is always terrible.
Is this what that uncanny “too smooth” look is on my parents TV? Whenever I’d go to visit them whatever they had on always looked like the camera motion or character movement was way too smooth to the point it was kind of unsettling.
The “soap opera” effect. Filmmakers hate this
Animators too. FFS, when you deliberately position a character to look fluid, life-like, and emphatic at a frame rate, you have to respect it, or you lose it! Adding frames willy-nilly ruins movies and animation. Don’t like it? Wanna be a gamer? Well, maybe just sit tight and accept that you have to trust that the artist, idfk, knew how to do their fucking job.
Personal rant here. I hate automated interpolation. I would literally prefer it if you deep-fried my work by overcompressing it over and over to ‘save space.’
Yup
It brings you gorgeous frames like this:
Looks like the usual Aqua to me
that’s just Aqua
Aqua just looks like that.
I’ve been exposed to a smart TV only once in my life, and I hated the experience so much 😅
How is that possible in 2025?
My 55 inch rca has been going strong for a decade and it’s just monitors other than that
Maybe they were born yesterday?
I’m enjoying LG’s implementation. 🤷♂️ I have that stuff enabled, but not on the outputs where I play games.
I usually hate those too…
But they are not universally bad. OLED screens have almost instantaneous response times, which if paired with lateral movement and content shot at 24 FPS can become a stuttery mess instead of a smooth camera pan. In some movies, it’s enough to give me a headache.
In those scenarios, one of the interpolation settings available on my LG C1 instantly fixes the issue and does not add significant artifacts. The goal isn’t simulating 120 FPS on a TV show, but working around content filmed at abysmally low FPS (which was relevant when film was expensive and we used blurry TVs, not good for 2025).
Black frame insertion?
This is in regard to motion smoothing which is enabled by default on modern TVs, and give the effect of a soap opera look. People think that it makes the video look better, but it’s just adding fake frames to display at a higher frame rate. Not a lot of people like this: https://variety.com/2022/film/news/motion-smoothing-how-to-shut-off-1235176633/
To make matters worse, all TV brands have their own name for this feature. This post is saying that when you go home for the holidays, this is the name of the motion smoothing in the settings to turn off for a better viewing experience the way the filmmaker intends.
Oh god this must be what my parents have on their TV- I thought it looked that way bc it’s 4k. A soap opera look is exactly how I described it! That’s been my only exposure to new/smart TVs
I agree that it’s awful. Why do you think they enable it by default? What’s their game?
So they can turn off AI enhancements on their relatives’ TV.
I’ve been turning off smoothing for at least 15, years at this point. Not every terrible tech is AI.
To disable the “soap opera effect” on televisions.
Boomer detected.