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Many new TVs come with a bevy of optional display features that are turned on by default, and a few could be robbing you and your set of the best picture possible. Below are three features we recommend you shut off—or at least turn way down—when you get the TV home. The process will soon be getting easier for many owners of new TVs, thanks to a new feature called Filmmaker Mode, which was developed with input from some high-profile movie directors, including Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.
It's described below. This is just one of several interesting TV developments for In addition, we have advice on how to adjust other TV settings , for black levels, color, and more to make sure you are getting the best possible picture on your TV. Don't worry about straying too far with any of these adjustments—most TVs have a reset option to restore factory settings.
I don't want to see any noise on my TV! Noise—sometimes called "snow" due to the appearance of black and white dots in the picture—was a bigger issue with older analog TVs, and especially with lower-definition analog signals. And, yes, when TVs upconvert video signals from low-quality sources you may still see some noise. But for the most part, you're getting much cleaner, higher-quality digital source content these days, whether you're using over-the-air digital broadcasts, high-def signals from cable and satellite TV services, streaming service signals, or pristine video from Blu-ray discs.
The problem with engaging noise reduction is that it comes at the expense of detail and fine texture—these tend to get smoothed over when the feature is active.
Then the screen refreshes and a new image is held there for another one-sixtieth of a second. Some TVs have faster refresh rates, and in some countries TV refresh every one-fiftieth of a second, but the process is the same. Sixty still images every second is fast enough to exceed your brain's flicker fusion threshold.
You don't see still images, you see fluid motion. However, your brain is working fast enough that it's expecting to see motion during those hold times. The images are held long enough that your brain assumes anything in motion is going to continue being in motion… but it isn't. It's actually stationary and then jumps to the next position, which is also stationary. Your brain and eyes, expecting smooth motion, blur the object by moving to follow where it should be. The physiological reasons behind this are beyond the scope of this article, but the key aspect is that motion blur is in your head isn't everything?
Today's TVs have a number of solutions for reducing motion blur, none of which is quite satisfactory. But your mileage may vary. Here are the pros and cons of four potential motion blur solutions. TV manufacturers have known about the motion blur issue for years. It's the main reason for higher refresh rates. Modern 4K TVs max out at Hz , but in the p days , there were models up to Hz or and Hz, depending what country you live in.
Higher refresh rates don't, in and of themselves, fix the motion blur problem. The images are still being held, and if you just double the number of still images to fit 60 into you haven't really changed anything. You need something to change to , and that's when things get interesting.
The processing in modern TVs can determine, with a surprising amount of accuracy, what happens in between two frames of video. For instance, if a ball is on the left side of the screen in frame A, and the right side of the screen in frame B, the TV could safely assume that if there was a frame between A and B, the ball would be in the center of the screen.
This means there are more frames to switch between, and less time "held" on each frame. This is called frame or motion interpolation. With video content like sports, a new frame is inserted between every original frame, and the result is less motion blur and greater apparent detail. With movies and scripted TV shows, however, there's a problem.
Nearly every movie and nonreality TV show is recorded at a frame rate of 24 frames per second. This goes back to when nearly everything was shot on film. Though the early days had a variety of frame rates, Hollywood settled on 24, and it has been that way for decades. These days very few movies or shows are "filmed," but the digital cameras are set to record at 24 frames per second.
This is perceived by the vast majority of people as "fiction. News, reality TV, sports and so on all use higher frame rates, usually 30 or 60fps.
Some TVs, like this Vizio, let you separately fine-tune how much judder you want to reduce, helping to smooth out movement in the image and motion blur. Interpolating frames increases the apparent frame rate, so 24fps content no longer looks like 24fps content, because when shown on these TVs, it isn't 24fps content.
The interpolation effectively increases the frame rate so 24fps content looks more like 30 or 60fps. More like sports, reality TV or the content that gives this effect its name: the soap opera effect. That's where our friend Tom comes in. Many people don't notice, or don't care, about the soap opera effect. TruMotion settings can be found here:.
Open the Quick Settings menu. By pressing the Settings button on the remote, you'll pull up the Quick Settings menu along the right side of the screen. Open the main Settings menu. The bottom icon in the Quick Settings menu will open the main Settings menu. The first option is Picture Settings. Open Picture Options. Found in the Picture Settings menu, Picture Options include a number of image-processing features that can be adjusted or disabled, including TruMotion.
Open TruMotion settings. At the bottom of the menu, you'll find the TruMotion settings menu. Open it to make adjustments. Disable TruMotion. In the TruMotion settings, you can disable TruMotion, use an existing preset or set your own custom profile. Sony calls its motion smoothing MotionFlow. You can disable or adjust the settings to turn off motion smoothing, or tweak it to your comfort level.
For a full explanation of settings and menus, check out our guide to Sony Android TVs. Open the Settings menu. At the bottom of the home screen, you will find two rows below all of the content recommendations and apps: Inputs and Settings. The bottom row is Settings, and the first option — marked by a gear-shaped icon — opens the Settings menu. The controls for MotionFlow are found under the Picture and Display settings, which are listed in the main Settings menu.
Open Advanced Settings. Open the Motion menu. The control for MotionFlow settings is found under the Motion menu, which is under Advanced Settings. Here, you will find preset MotionFlow settings, as well as controls to customize MotionFLow settings.
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