Whatever TV you have, motion smoothing tends to have to same effect of making the image look smoother, but depending on the quality of your TV it can either look good or very distracting.
If it’s the latter, then you’ll probably want to know how to turn it off.
Motion smoothing is often seen as the scourge of TV processing by film fans like Martin Scorsese and Tom Cruise who want their films to reproduced in the way they intended. If you’re of a similar opinion, and you have a Samsung TV, here’s how to turn motion smoothing feature off.
What you’ll need
- A Samsung TV
The Short Version
- Open the menu settings
- Press the icon that looks like a cog
- Select ‘All Settings’ menu
- Go to Picture settings
- Go to Expert settings
- Select the Picture Clarity setting
- Turn Picture Clarity off
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1Open menu settings
If you’ve got a recent Samsung TV with the smart remote, press the button that looks like a cog with the numbers 123/colours underneath it. From there, select the menu option that looks like a ‘cog’
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2Select ‘All Settings’ menu
Right on the far left is the All Settings icon. Click on that and that will take you through to the main menu settings
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3Go to Picture settings
You won’t have to look far and wide as the Picture settings are the first to come up. Go here and slide down to the…
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4Go to Expert settings
This area opens up the more advanced features that you can change on your Samsung TV.
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5Select Picture Clarity settings
Depending on how old your Samsung TV, you may be presented with either Picture Clarity (newer TVs) or Auto Motion Plus (older TVs). It’s the same setting either way, so click on it.
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6Turn Picture Clarity off
There’s the option of turning the setting off, switching to Auto, or applying your own custom settings. If you want it off, simply select that option.
FAQs
Samsung has a nifty feature whereby you can choose whether to change the settings on the current source you’re using, or have it change the settings globally, in effect across all the TV’s input, which means you won’t have to
keep turning certain settings off on each source,
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