I have to admit I was ignorant of this technology until recently. My disc player wasnt working so I recently watched a dvd on my laptop connected to my tv, which couldve been played by the default player Cyberlink's PowerDVD, as mentioned in the linked articles below as using motion smoothing. Something was looking really unnatural in the way things were moving, and I was uber conscious of it. It was driving nuts and hard to just concentrate and enjoy the film. Cut to even more recently watching tv and films on a friends new LCD and the same unnatural movement was going on that just drove me nuts. So I flipped around the settings in the menu and found that "motion smoothing" was turned on. I turn it off and I watch the film in its original frame rate or whatever and its not driving me mental.
So yeah, my opinion is that its not worth it and it would make a lot more sense to watch a movie in the original frame rate. The technology may be cool, but shouldnt be implemented as it currently exists. Opinions?
Some articles:
capital_prototype you have hit it on the head man. Many people can't see what you see and I will refer to them as "the rest". This is like the Matrix... you know something is wrong, but only you seem to see it.
ReplyDelete"Motion Smoothing" is bad because they interpolate data between frames and create new images (take beginning and end and divide by 2 to get a new "middle" frame). The problem is that you can't always do this very well and you actually introduce artifacts this way. Best to leave it off.
I agree with Sawsheezle 100% on this. I am not a fan. You can't create new frames perfetly so why do it at all? I actually think it's time to start recording and distributing content at higher frame rates. This is one of the reasons I am interested in the new Hobbit movie(besides the obvious reasons) because it was shot and going to be shown at 48 fps.
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