Topic: More from the annals of The Scourge of Digital Technology

[hookstrapped]

https://www.vulture.com/2019/07/motion-smoothing-is-ruining-cinema.html

[Bryan]

Turning off motion smoothing is the first thing I do when I get a new TV.  They used to call it frame rate, it was easy to find so I just set it at 30fps.  I recently bought a new TV and couldn’t find the frame rate setting.  I was afraid I would have to return it but after some googling I found out how to turn off the “Motion Smoothing”. 

I think most people just accept it and get used to it, maybe we got used to the 24 to 30fps of film and are just shocked by the change.  Motion blur was a problem when HD television came out, a higher frame rate was part of that fix but it makes the picture look like crap.

[Francois]

Funny 'cause the TV I still have is a CRT I bought back in the early 2000's 

I remember not too long ago I was talking to a clerk at Staples and he was telling me that watching anything below 60 Hz gave him a splitting headache and how great his new 120 Hz TV was... I thought it was a bit ridiculous since our central nervous system can't go that fast!

[Bryan]

Funny 'cause the TV I still have is a CRT I bought back in the early 2000's 

I remember not too long ago I was talking to a clerk at Staples and he was telling me that watching anything below 60 Hz gave him a splitting headache and how great his new 120 Hz TV was... I thought it was a bit ridiculous since our central nervous system can't go that fast!

So he couldn't watch TV until HD came out?  Sounds like something a salesman would say. 

The frame rate for 8mm film when it first came out was set at 16fps.  The reason was for economy for the average consumer.  That was also about as slow as you can go before you start to notice the flicker of the projector between 12fps and 16fps.  They did everything they could to make film affordable for the masses, smaller image size, slow frame rate, etc.  It was later bumped to 18fps for 8mm which was adopted for Super 8 as well.  16mm and 35mm film was usually shot at 24fps

[Late Developer]

Thanks for this; I'd never heard of it.  We've got a relatively recent Sony Bravia TV and they (apparently) call it "Motion Flow".  I'm going to reset the settings tonight and, hopefully, improve the picture.