Motion smoothing is a feature in TVs or cameras that helps make fast-moving images appear smoother. It reduces blur and improves the clarity of moving objects on the screen.
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The company also highlighted a feature called ProMotion that increases the refresh rate and makes
motion smoother in video content.
You might even have a dedicated button to
turn motion smoothing on or off on your remote, but with the general trend of simplifying TV remotes, this likely won't apply if you've got a newer TV.
Others, however, especially on the higher end, offer blur - reducing technologies that don't rely
on motion smoothing, so you can have the best of both worlds.
There are even some people, rare though they may be, who prefer watching movies
with motion smoothing turned on.
Heavier flywheel weights make it harder to get started, but they make the
pedaling motion smoother and allow you to keep your speed steady.
I must also point out that this TV's display of content shot at 24 frame - per - second is superb, and that's with the set's
motion smoothing technology completely disabled.
Plasmas don't need higher refresh rates, though most modern plasmas still have
motion smoothing processing that causes the Soap Opera Effect on them as well.
Our 65 - inch review model is listed as a 120Hz panel (with 240Hz «effective refresh rate»
via motion smoothing), and we found its motion resolution to be quite good.
There are a few
TruMotion motion smoothing modes on offer here — «Smooth,» «Clear,» and «User,» which allows you to set the mount of de-judder and de-blur you want.
Since TV isn't delivered at this frame rate, though,
motion smoothing came along as a way to «fake» a higher frame rate by inserting images in between the actual 30 or 60 frames per second that come from your cable box, game console, or antenna.
Motion smoothing works fine for sports programming and video games because of the way that content is recorded and / or produced, but we're actually used to seeing lower frame rates in many TV shows and movies, most of which are at 24 frames per second.
Some TVs only
use motion smoothing in certain picture modes, so it's possible that your TV might use it in the Sports or Vivid picture setting, but automatically turn it off in the Cinema setting to avoid the Soap Opera Effect.
Motion smoothing doesn't damage your eyes or anything like that (as much as those who are bothered by it might believe otherwise).
The company calls it Natural Motion 480, and claims the feature can be adjusted to provide just a
little motion smoothing to calm down judder when watching 24 frame - per - second (FPS) movies, but also to keep fast - moving sports for suffering from motion blur.
Make sure you grab the remote and play around a bit (and be sure to turn
off motion smoothing in the picture setting menu), then just sit back and marvel.
If you're someone who's easily taken out of the action
with motion smoothing, then it might be worth digging through the settings and just turning it off.
When we streamed «Transformers: Dark of the Moon,» images were sharp and
motion smooth.
Either of these presets will offer the best out - of - box contrast and color, and as a bonus,
the motion smoothing that introduces so - called «soap opera effect» is turned off by default in these modes.
Another key setting to adjust is
motion smoothing, we recommend you turn this off.
If you aren't a professional calibrator and / or don't intend to hire one, then I wouldn't bother messing with the settings save to turn off
the motion smoothing feature — you stand to do more harm than good.
Finally, we recommend switching off
motion smoothing.
Outside of those changes, you'll probably want to turn off
motion smoothing.
Just select Cinema in the picture mode section, then scroll down to the second page where you'll see «
Motion Smoothing» and turn it off.
What it does is totally avoids the «soap opera effect» you typically see when forcing 24 fps cinema into TV mode, and the «
motion smoothing» nonsense that TVs try to sell but many of us turn off the moment we get them home.
For that matter, plasmas aren't increasing their refresh rates to insert new frames, so all that's really happening is the TV is creating new frames to insert in - between the film frames, just to make
the motion smoother.
Because plasma TVs don't suffer from the motion blur problems that LCDs have (or at least, not to the extent),
motion smoothing is largely superfluous.
It's called «
motion smoothing,» «motion interpolation,» or «ME / MC» for motion estimation / motion compensation.
As such, there is typically an option on sets that have 120hz and above refresh rates to turn off
the motion smoothing algorithms (and the more thoughtful manufacturers even include profiles wherein you can set up a Cinema profile the content you want smoothed, and a regular profile for the content you don't want smooth).
Reference the manual for your set or simply poke around in the on - screen menu until you find anything close to the terms «
motion smoothing», «motion», «judder reduction», «smoothing», etc..
It goes by many names, as we'll detail later, but the technology behind it is known as motion interpolation, or more simply,
motion smoothing.
In some cases, turning
the motion smoothing down to a lower level will get rid of most of the Soap Opera Effect, and offer better motion for just the right balance.
Not everyone is bothered by
motion smoothing, either, and some people even like it for watching TV shows, depending on how cinematically they're shot.
As mentioned above,
motion smoothing can be great for watching sports and video games, as it leads to smoother looking action.
Two notable exceptions are Hisense, which calls
its motion smoothing UltraSMR.
In many cases,
motion smoothing will be listed toward the bottom, after you've passed more traditional settings like Brightness, Contrast, and Sharpness.
The very first thing we suggest you disable is
the motion smoothing feature, e.g., MotionFlow, CineMotion, TrueMotion, CineSpeed 120Hz, 240Hz, 480Hz or something else along those lines (check the above table).
If you do this, turn the Color Temperature down to W30 and turn off TruMotion, which is
motion smoothing.
Finally, we recommend switching off
the motion smoothing.
New this year, however, is Sony's X1 Extreme processor, which handles processing for not only the picture itself, but also HDR brightness data,
motion smoothing to eliminate artifacts and blurring in fast - paced content.
Let me be clear: This isn't your average «
motion smoothing» feature, which TV manufacturers do to try and improve the frame rate of sports and video games.