No, it was streaming (can't recall if it was Amazon or Netflix)... we did find a website that described various TruMotion options on LG models, but we couldn't find that menu option at the top-level. Looks like you need to drill down a bit to tweak that? I think I did find it the next day (on or off, no de-blur or de-judder sliders) but, by then, I just wanted to leave the TV the way we found it. Like The Young Doctors On Acid.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 11:32 (five years ago) link
(* - this is where someone tells me that Cuaron filmed CoM on HDV at 50fps and it's supposed to look like that)
No, Cuaron designed CoM to look actually good.
― zama roma ding dong (Eric H.), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
We just got a 4K LG set and, after seeing firsthand the horrors of “motion smoothing” I immediately went through the settings and switched off all of these features (I used MatthewK’s post from last year as a guide). Regular TV (inc. movies on TCM and whatnot) now looks fantastic, but even after changing everything, when I tried to watch the last two episodes of Russian Doll on Netflix, it still looks disgusting (my husband reports the same problem with The Crown). Anyone know if Netflix—or Prime, for that matter—has its own settings that my tv can’t override? I couldn’t find anything in my quick perusal of the Netflix menu.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 November 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Are you using an app built into the TV, or e.g. an Apple TV to watch? There’s a setting on the latter to show things at their original frame rate - can’t remember exactly but it’s something like “match frame rate” or similar. An app on the TV might have a similar setting. Not sure if Netflix upsamples frame rates prior to streaming, but I’d imagine a few people would be pissed off and vocal about it if they did.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 28 November 2019 21:02 (four years ago) link
That fixed it! I had been watching it through the Netflix app on my TV, but after accessing Netflix through my PVR receiver, it finally looked right. Thanks a bunch!
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 28 November 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
With LGs, I haven't found a way to turn off motion smoothing for stuff coming off the USB drives, which is annoying.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Friday, 29 November 2019 00:13 (four years ago) link
xp so glad to help, why do manufacturers do this to us? Save us, Tom Cruise.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 29 November 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
still a plague
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 01:52 (three years ago) link
It's not going anywhere, unfortunately
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
Had to go through four sub-menus to turn this shit off on my mom's new TV.
― Donald Trump Also Sucks, Of Course (milo z), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
I had to watch an intensely bright and motion smoothed Gremlins one Christmas, you could see the pudding-y consistency of the fake snow at the beginning. It was more horrific than a pureed gremlin.
― geoffreyess, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 03:21 (three years ago) link
Do people actually <i>enjoy</i> watching television like this, or is it more of a case of them getting a 4k TV and that being the default setting (so it must be <i>better</i>)?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:10 (three years ago) link
(ugh, me and coding)
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:12 (three years ago) link
it's def the default setting phenomenon, my parents do this and I'm like "wtf why does this look like CCTV"
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:13 (three years ago) link
I guess it somehow makes the display stuff they play in them at the store look better?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:17 (three years ago) link
My tv (LG) allows me to gauge how much motion smoothing I want to see. I can go full soap opera, or I can dial it back to almost none, but just enough to make old shows and films look modern-ish (crisp visuals and less grain/noise in the footage). I don't watch anything through USB, so I don't know if my LG has the same issues James Morrison's does. I like having the option for a little or a lot.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:28 (three years ago) link
Also, none. I can turn it off altogether, but I generally don't.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:29 (three years ago) link
it's weird how many people I know that don't even know it's a setting, like even my brother has been like "I don't notice anything!"
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:30 (three years ago) link
I guess it's ok for sports?
― Lady Antibody (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 04:31 (three years ago) link
I went "full austerity" on my Sony OLED but I had to back it off a skosh because it was a bit *too* hairshirt. Still the most "film" TV I have ever owned, I skipped LCD altogether and held on to my ageing plasma until I found a decent OLED on clearance.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 08:01 (three years ago) link
i want an OLED so bad, to replace my 2006 toshiba, but 43” is the max i can put in my living room and they just don’t make em that small. there are some 48-inchers coming this year, which is the smallest they’ve ever gotten.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 08:33 (three years ago) link
Some of them you can size up because the bezels are smaller - I had a 51" plasma but the 55" OLED is the same dimensions, just a smaller edge around the screen.
― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 09:13 (three years ago) link
I am definitely on tenterhooks waiting for Smaller OLED TVs
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 28 July 2020 17:11 (three years ago) link