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Vizio: Picture menu > More Picture > Motion Control > Reduce Judder: 0. On the 2018 P-Series Quantum we checked, smoothing was disabled in Calibrated and Calibrated Dark mode.
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On the 2018 TCL 5 series we checked, smoothing was disabled in Movie mode. TCL: Picture menu > Advanced picture settings > Action smoothing: Off.
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Samsung: Expert settings menu > Auto Motion Plus > Off.LG: Picture settings menu > Picture Options > TruMotion: Off. On the 2018 B8 OLED TV we checked, smoothing is enabled in Cinema mode (TruMotion: Clear) but disabled in Technicolor.
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CNET checked out a few of the 2018 TVs in its lab - here's what we found, and how to make sure it's off. Some TVs keep the soap opera effect turned on even in Movie or Cinema mode. Step 2: Make sure smoothing is actually off. If Movie looks too dark, feel free to turn up the Backlight (on LCD TVs) or Brightness (on newer Sony LCD TVs) or OLED Light (on OLED TVs) until it's bright enough for you. On most TVs this will not only eliminate or greatly reduce smoothing, it will make the picture more accurate in general, particularly colors. Step 1: Put the TV in Movie, Cinema or Calibrated mode. The good news: With almost every TV on the market, you can turn it off. Why? Maybe because TV makers want to justify the extra price you paid for a TV with this feature built-in. And in most default picture modes it's turned on. The bad news: Every TV company has a different name for their motion interpolation processing. In other words, it makes movies (24fps) look like soap operas (30/60fps). By creating new frames between the 24 original frames, it causes it to look like 30fps or 60fps content. Even though the TV and movie industries have been moving away from shooting on actual film, the new digital cameras are set for 24fps because the audience for fictional programming expects that look. Even if this perception seems grandiose, the look of 24fps is expected with movies and fiction TV shows. Check out the scathing reviews of the high frame rate version of The Hobbit for proof of that. The cadence of film, and the associated blurring of the slower frame rate's image, is linked to the perception of fiction. However, with 24fps content (namely Hollywood movies and most nonreality, TV shows like sitcoms and dramas), there's a problem.
On Vizio TVs you'll find controls for the soap opera effect under Motion Control. Content like sports has better detail with motion, and there are minimal side effects, beyond errors and artifacts possible with cheaper or lesser motion interpolation processing. With 30 and 60 frame-per-second content, this is great. By creating these frames, motion blur is reduced. These new frames are a hybrid of the frame before and the frame after. Thanks to speedy processors, TVs can "guess" what's happening between the frames captured by the camera originally. The short version: In order for high-refresh-rate TVs to be most effective, they need new, real frames to insert between the original frames. High-refresh-rate LCDs ( 120Hz and 240Hz) were developed to combat this problem. Which is to say, any object onscreen that's in motion will be less detailed (slightly blurry) compared with that same object when stationary. All LCD TVs have difficulty with motion resolution. This motion "whatever" was ostensibly developed to help decrease apparent motion blur on LCDs.