![]() ![]() E-bike and scooter batteries with the explosive force of SIX grenades are being used in homes across Britain but calls are growing to ban them after eight deaths - including this mother-of-four killed when one blew up after charging for just THREE minutes.The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. And you can read his piece on motion smoothing in Vulture.Ĭopyright © 2019 NPR. I can go all day (Laughter).ĬORNISH: Bilge Ebiri - he writes for New York Magazine. On Panasonic, it's called a motion smoother.ĮBIRI: It just goes on and on. In every case, motion smoothing is called something different. And they just don't - even though they don't like it, they just kind of sit there and watch it.ĬORNISH: The hardest part of your article was the sidebar that explained how to turn it off.ĮBIRI: Well, the problem with turning it off is it's different on every TV. So if you turn it on, and suddenly a movie looks like a soap opera, a lot of people just say, well, I guess this is the superior way of watching it. You assume that the TV is doing everything right. And a lot of people said, OK, now I'm going to try and turn this thing off. When I published my piece, I got a lot of responses from people saying, so that's what's been going on with my TV. Directors Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson have reached out to television manufacturers directly to say, hey, can you not make this the default setting? But here's the thing - if we've all been watching already for many years on this default setting, is it too late?ĮBIRI: It's interesting. The way actors perform, the way shots are composed, the way the camera is moved, the way narrative works - it's a language that's developed around 24 frames a second.ĬORNISH: As we mentioned earlier, Tom Cruise filmed this PSA. Back in the day, if you watched a slow-motion replay, it wasn't nearly as smooth.ĬORNISH: Why are the film people so upset about this?ĮBIRI: Film people are upset because, just as a matter of course, their art form depends on 24 frames a second. And that's also why, when you're watching sports, for example, you watch a slow-motion replay, it's a very smooth slow motion. In fact, a lot of sports and live shows that you're watching today are shot at 60 frames a second.ĬORNISH: And that's why we have such crisp images when we're watching those programs.ĮBIRI: Exactly. Today, HDTVs and high-definition cameras can do higher frame rates. ![]() ![]() ![]() Can you help us understand why that makes it look different or feel different?ĮBIRI: Well, originally, TV in the U.S. I hate to do this to you, but how do you explain it to people who say, yeah, I didn't read all the way to the end? What is motion smoothing?ĮBIRI: Motion smoothing, which is also called image interpolation, is a process whereby your TV takes individual frames of a film or show that you're watching, and it predicts, creates and inserts new frames in between those frames in order to give you what manufacturers - and, presumably, the engineers who developed this technology - hope will be a much smoother experience watching action on screen.ĬORNISH: From what I understand, movies are shot at a frame rate of 24 per second. Writer Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine wrote about this phenomenon.ĬORNISH: You've written extensively about this. Now, this is sometimes referred to as the soap opera effect.ĬORNISH: The technical term for what your HDTV is doing is actually motion smoothing. TOM CRUISE: The unfortunate side effect is that it makes most movies look like they were shot on high-speed video rather than film. Here's Tom Cruise, in a PSA he created recently, warning viewers. Your TV may be hard at work altering the Hollywood feature films you're watching, and many in the movie industry aren't happy about it. ![]()
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