Hot take: Isn't this a self-inflicted problem? How about just....not including these features? These implementations drastically vary in quality while all managing to be quite bad in most...
Hot take: Isn't this a self-inflicted problem? How about just....not including these features? These implementations drastically vary in quality while all managing to be quite bad in most situations.
In an announcement video produced by the UHD Alliance, over a dozen high profile directors expressed their support for the new mode, including Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and JJ Abrams.
Oh. This is now a marketing thing—these TV manufacturers will now almost certainly weasel their way into saying "with included configurations by famous filmmakers" without admitting this is an artificial problem they created.
There are definitely legitimate reasons for motion smoothing. It's also just as much a function of how we're conditioned from the very beginning of our media consumption lives that 24 FPS looks...
There are definitely legitimate reasons for motion smoothing.
It's also just as much a function of how we're conditioned from the very beginning of our media consumption lives that 24 FPS looks more "cinematic" than 30 FPS (or higher) does.
Sports are way better with motion smoothing. Much easier to track the ball or puck. But I don't watch many sports so I do agree that it's more of an inconvenience for non sports fans.
Sports are way better with motion smoothing. Much easier to track the ball or puck. But I don't watch many sports so I do agree that it's more of an inconvenience for non sports fans.
This is the most important part. Adding a button to the remote to disable things like motion smoothing, weird zoom modes, overscan and 3:2 pulldown is fantastic. It's the only way 99% of people...
...the UHD Alliance also says that it wants the setting to be enabled automatically when cinematic content is detected, or otherwise easily accessible via a button on the TV remote.
This is the most important part. Adding a button to the remote to disable things like motion smoothing, weird zoom modes, overscan and 3:2 pulldown is fantastic. It's the only way 99% of people will even think about changing the setting.
Hot take: Isn't this a self-inflicted problem? How about just....not including these features? These implementations drastically vary in quality while all managing to be quite bad in most situations.
Oh. This is now a marketing thing—these TV manufacturers will now almost certainly weasel their way into saying "with included configurations by famous filmmakers" without admitting this is an artificial problem they created.
There are definitely legitimate reasons for motion smoothing.
It's also just as much a function of how we're conditioned from the very beginning of our media consumption lives that 24 FPS looks more "cinematic" than 30 FPS (or higher) does.
Sports are way better with motion smoothing. Much easier to track the ball or puck. But I don't watch many sports so I do agree that it's more of an inconvenience for non sports fans.
This is the most important part. Adding a button to the remote to disable things like motion smoothing, weird zoom modes, overscan and 3:2 pulldown is fantastic. It's the only way 99% of people will even think about changing the setting.