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Michael Desjardin

Motion smoothing for sports — should you enable it on your TV?

The LG B8 OLED TV in a modern living room displaying an NFL football game.

If you’re unaware of the controversial nature of motion smoothing (a feature found on nearly every modern TV), then two things are likely true: The first is that you probably have motion smoothing enabled on your own TV right now, and the second is that Tom Cruise is personally disappointed in you.

You probably have it enabled because the motion smoothing setting is typically turned on by default. For this reason, Tom Cruise asked his fans to disable motion smoothing ahead of the home video release of “Mission: Impossible - Fallout.”

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