Motion Smoothing has been used on TVs for the last two decades, with each manufacturer trying to improve it. It tries to reduce the soap opera effect and generates frames that weren’t there to reduce the blur.
The downside? You don’t get to enjoy the true movie experience on your Roku TV or any other brand TV. It’s become so widespread that even Tom Cruise uploaded a video during the release of Top Gun Maverick, urging viewers to turn off the settings on their TVs.
Motion Smoothing is a simple term for a technology called Interpolation. But your TV might have a different name, like Motion Enhancement, Motion Interpolation, True Motion, Smoothing Effect, etc, to help you understand it better. Let’s discuss how to turn off the feature on your Roku TV.
Disabling Motion or Action Smoothing on Roku TV
Now, you know the reason behind turning off the feature. Repeat the following steps to turn it off:
Step 1: Start any movie or TV show on your Roku TV and press the star (*) button on your Roku remote. Alternatively, you can navigate to settings using the directional buttons.
Step 2: Go to Picture Settings > Advanced Picture Settings section.
Step 3: Scroll down, find Action Smoothing, and turn it off.
Now, rewatch the movie and check the difference yourself. You can cherish the film’s true glory as the filmmaker made it. There’s also a filmmaker mode in high-end smart TVs that can adjust the colors like the final cut. Your TVs can alter the overall color so that filmmaker mode can improve the home theater experience.
Does Roku Stick Have Motion Smoothing?
No. Roku stick doesn’t have motion smoothing as it’s a feature baked into the TV and not a streaming device. If your TV supports a high refresh rate above 60Hz, there is a high chance that a motion smoothing feature will be in effect.
Recently, Roku force-enabled the feature on the TVs, even for users who didn’t need it, causing a massive uproar in the TV enthusiast community.
There isn’t an imposition to use the feature, and you can deactivate/activate it to check the difference using the methods we described above.
What Are the Best Picture Settings for Roku TV?
Apart from turning the Motion Smoothing off., you can enable Filmmaker Mode on your TV. The overall experience will be miles better if it’s an OLED one. But there are no global picture settings that you can use. Experiment with picture modes and manually adjust brightness, contrast, etc, based on your room lighting conditions.
Wrapping Up
This is how you can block Motion Smoothing from ruining your home movie nights. If you have suggestions about more picture settings, shoot them in the comments.
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