Your TV may be causing the soap opera effect: these are the settings you need to adjust or turn off.

In the age of OLED TVs and HD displays, movies should be looking better than ever when we watch them at home. And yet, the opposite seems to be true. If you throw on ...

Ever noticed that your TV picture sometimes looks too smooth — almost like a daytime soap opera, even when you’re watching a movie? That’s what people call the soap opera effect (SOE). It happens when ...

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According to film buffs and movie directors, motion smoothing is the worst. Even streaming services don't like it. When "Roma" was released on Netflix, the company urged viewers to turn off motion ...

As Shakespeare might have put it (but probably didn’t): Motion smoothing is known by many names, yet it’s just as much of a scourge no matter what you call it. The technology, which rose to prominence ...

If you have watched any movie on any TV in the past few years, there’s a good chance you’ve encountered motion smoothing. Even if you don’t know what it is, you might have noticed a favorite film ...

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Over the years, televisions have grown not just in footprint, but also in the number of software features packed underneath — maybe to the point of confusion. Even if you pick the perfect size and ...

Motion interpolation, or "motion smoothing" as it is commonly called, is the video processing done by today's television screens that claims to increase perceived frame rate and alleviate motion blur.