Motion Smoothing - Why Your New TV Looks So Bad

Motion smoothing is a controversial setting that is turned on by default on most modern TV's. But why does it make your favorite movies look like a soap opera?

[Yensid]

I'm so glad I'm not in the minority about this. I've complained about this to my family for years and they all looked at me like I was seeing things.

[slayerduval]

I'm in that group of people who kept complaining, but not being able to articulate, why things looked so "weird and fake" on my friend's TVs for years. And, yes, everyone thought I was just being difficult. Validation!

[TheMediaHoarder]

This video would show the effect much more accurately if it were actually in 60fps. But the bottom line is most default TV settings are wrong.

[williamrusso]

It's great for live TV, but for everything else, it's really distracting. I always ask people how they can watch movies with it on, and most of them don't even notice it.

[daninbox]

Directors such as Christopher Nolan and Martin Scorsese created a new TV setting that solves this problem called Filmmaker Mode. It will for sure be on Samsung and Philips TVs.

[spriggantine]

Thank you so much for doing this episode! This is a setting that I noticed on a lot of peoples' new tvs back in the early 2000's when they showed it off and I was like..."what's wrong with the picture? everything looks so 'fake"...and so many people were like, I don't see what you're talking about, it looks better. Now I don't feel like a crazy person, it IS a thing and I personally have never liked it, so I will make sure to always turn it off.

[loughrey]

If you have a high end 120hz TV like the LG CX OLED, motion smoothing doesn't create the soap opera effect, they handle it very well, removing judder from 24p movies without making it too smooth

[aibohphobe]

The effect really isnt noticeable side by side on youtube, but my god does it look horrible on a big screen. I'm glad I finally know the name of the it. Why in God's name would you ever want every TV show and movie you watch to look like it was filmed on a camcorder?

[Woopersolo]

Most importantly turn off motion smoothing sunstone 2019.

[jabowi]

Thank you thank you! Was horrified to see beautiful films turned into cheap soap operas. My family thought I was hallucinating, couldn't get them to see it. Was about to go back to the shop which would have solved nothing. Managed to find the command and fix it, and suddenly they saw what I meant.

[thatsjarrod]

My God in heaven THANK YOU! I've been dealing w that soap opera effect for the past 3 years w no idea how to fix it. Thought I was crazy till I just bought another brand new tv, put them side by side and confirmed how much better the new tv looks, the people and sets look like actual people and sets. Googled what to do to fix the first tv and ended up here.

[KingGodLight]

Dude, you just saved me. I just got a brand new 50" Samsung tv. Put on Thor Ragnarok and it felt like i was watching a low budget show. I had to play around my settings since my TV was set to a different language than English but i found it under "Picture clarity".
Went through like 3, 10 minutes long, videos on youtube and was about to give up and you got straight to the point in 2 minutes. So thanks again! I feel like i owe you.

[Catkratos]

Dude ! THANK YOU I was telling my family there’s something off when they move their hand and shit and they just ignored my ass

[Leonartist]

Movies recorded in 60 fps would look nice to me, but it is just that interpolated 60 fps has artifacting and movement looks a little cartoonish like a flash animation.

[isaiahpinkerton]

Makes some of my tv shows/movies look like videogames. Thanks for explaining!

[snowliger]

trying to show 60fps vs 24fps but uploading this video in only 30fps. =/

[djbge]

I don’t have a new-ish TV, but when I go to my father-in-law’s house, I couldn’t figure out why when we’d watch movies over there why the frame rates were so high and why the movies looked so cheap.

Seems like a dumb setting to have on automatically, but I’m also not into sports. lol

[trickerdgaming]

With some movies and games this feature doesn’t have a negative effect, but some other games and films it has a bad effect! RDR2 is one game it makes a blur look around the characters when moving fast (when turned off the game looks good again and is fine enough either way) also one film is grease that it makes that blur effect around the person and streaks on screen at times when Cam moves fast, but if you turn it off it fixes it, sometimes it’s good and sometimes it’s bad just depends on the game and film you use it with.

[nomdplume]

Motion smoothing makes old 24Hzcontent look like a Benny hill show. Leave high fps content for things that were actually shot in high fps. Don't mess with the old stuff. It looks unnatural and distorted.

[edselgreaves]

Motion smoothing looks SO GOOD on my Hisense 4K. It looks like crap on every other TV I've seen, but my Hisense does it perfectly. It makes the characters stand out from the settings just so, there is deep definition between blacks and colors, and every scene is like through through a window rather than a TV. Rain especially looks amazing on my Hisense. Whereas on every other TV I've seen, motion smoothing makes everything look like a behind-the-scenes documentary.