Tap Tips, episode 2: Enhance your movie-watching experience with one easy virtual switch

A SIMPLE setting on your television might be making movies look worse. Thankfully fixing it is as easy as toggling a virtual switch – you just need to know where to look. It’s a feature called Motion Smoothing and it’s a feature that appears on many modern televisions. The feature is designed to make the footage you’re watching look smooth. But it does so by creating an effect that some directors and Hollywood stars say is unnatural. So if you’re keen to watch movies as they were intended, consider switching it off. Many modern TVs have a refresh rate of 60Hz. That means that the TV refreshes the image that’s on screen 60 times every second. If you’re watching a piece of content that was filmed at 60 frames per second then you have a perfect match-up. The footage will look supremely smooth, because the screen is refreshing with a brand new frame perfectly in sync. However, movies are typically shot at 24 frames per s