Nvidia calls it DLSS and pretends its new
Shouldn’t it be more like Motion Blur?
Wait DLSS is about upscaling right? The “features” mentioned in OP’s post are about motion interpolation that makes the video seem to be playing at higher fps than the standard 24fps used in movies and shows.
It allows more resolution by cutting the fps. Fake frames are inserted into the gaps to get the fps back.
That’s frame generation, not dlss. DLSS renders small and upscales.
It’s both. Nvidia just started calling everything DLSS, no matter how accurately it matches the actual term.
Image upscaling? DLSS. Frame generation? DLSS. Ray reconstruction? DLSS. Image downscaling? Surprisingly, also DLSS.
I ve read the post, i ve read the comments, i have still no idea what are we talking about
Go watch any old (think Cinderella, Bambi) Disney movie on Disney+. Notice how it’s nice and sharp. It’s been upscaled. Notice how the frame rate is fast, it’s been interpolated.
Now, closely watch the edges of the lines. They are inconsistent, smeared and now you can’t not see it… Sorry
Many modern TVs are now doing this by default and it’s rarely a better experience.
The post is about when you are a tech savvy person, and go to a relative’s house for the holiday and see some piece of tech with default configuration. Often tech companies (especially TV companies) enable buzzword technology to trick non tech savvy people into believing there was an improvement where there actually wasn’t. Often, inspection with a more educated eye reveals that the result actually looks bad and ruins the original media (unless it was already terrible).
In this case the gripe is with frame smoothing technologies, which look smeared and ruin details and timing of movies. But to someone who doesn’t know better it looks like “whoa, it really is smoother, I’m gonna smooth all the smoothing with my new extra smooth smoother; the smoothness salesman sold me real smooth on this” (I’m calling out the dishonest seller, not the consumer with this).
So when the tech savvy person sees the swindled relative, they try to fix up the situation disabling the bullshit, but every brand gives it a different patented bullshit name.
It’s worth noting that inevitably, as soon as you leave the house the relatives will:
- Not notice a thin
- Call you because the TV “doesn’t do the thing it did before anymore” and you have to explain that you did it and why it’s better until they ask you to put it back
- Spend too much time trying to pot back the thing on their own, making even worse choices along the way
To actually help them you should have been involved in the choice of device, but if you ever got involved in a choice you would automatically become the designated tech purchase advisor forever and ever.
But…why don’t you just let your relatives use their things as they want?
So leave everything in the default settings no matter how bad?
Cause they deserve better
Or they don’t know better
Aah, the joys of leaving well enough alone.
It’s a setting in newer TVs that “smooths” frames for lower quality media to maximize the capabilities of modern TV hardware. It very rarely looks good. This post lists what the major manufacturers call the technology.
How new does your TV have to be to have this? I just scrolled through settings and couldn’t find it. Is it normally in screen settings?
If it’s a smart TV, it’s probably there. Might be under a different name. I think my 6 year old Samsung calls it motion smoothing
I went to a friend’s house recently where this was enabled. I couldn’t bite my tongue for more than a few minutes before I had to bring it up. They were instantly impressed with how much better it looked lol.
My friends did that at my TV, I never noticed the difference
My dad was watching once upon Time in the west with true motion and I almost put him in a home then and there.
I am using a panasonic from 2008 😅
I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t mind it.
Shit, maybe I’m old and that’s what everyone else is going to look for and turn off.
This is what it did to my anime:
It’s less egregious on live action content but still noticeable
So it turns human made content into AI looking content?
Well, it uses AI to insert extra frames in between the real frames. So it doesn’t just look like AI content, it is AI content, spliced between every frame of your anime.
I’m hesitant to call it AI for the stuff available on TVs. It’s similar at some level but drastically simpler and the tech most TVs will use has been around way longer than what we’d typically call AI. Motion smoothing is usually math and algorithms we mostly could understand.
Now, if we’re talking DLSS/etc on a PC, yeah, that probably qualifies as AI but there’s a lot more that goes into that.
Or if you’re at 120hz it’s 3 frames of ai for each frame of 30fps video.
Don’t worry there are dozens of us. Dozens!
It’s my guilty pleasure.
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second, plus some neural frame interpolation spliced in between.”
- Jensen Godard, probably
My folks leave subtitles on too. I love when something goes fast behind the text and the letters go all wibbly wobbly.
Timey wimey… stuff?
To further elaborate, on LG TVs it’s in the “Clarity” menu.
Thank you for not typing “TV’s”
Thank you for noticing!
I feel seen. Thank you.
