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Motion smoothing and other TV problems | The Vergecast
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He recommends that viewers turn off motion smoothing because it causes movies to look unnaturally like video.
“So, when we see something that's 24 frames per second forced to be into a 60 frames per second, it's why it looks like video. It's why it looks like soap opers. the soap opera effect is what a lot of people call it. So, it just looks unnatural to a lot of people.”
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