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There are different aspects which constitute toward what makes a TV good for motion the main ones are:
These points are heavily controlled by source material. To give you an idea of the hz of different material:
24hz - Most common in Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray, films and recent TV shows on Amazon/Netflix etc
25hz - Most common in broadcast TV. This includes on demand TV like BBC iPlayer, ITV player, ALL4, UKTV Play, Demand 5 etc
30hz - Most common in older american TV shows
50hz - Most common with sport, Sky/BT football/match of the day and formula 1..athletics still. Some older/less common sport may only be 25hz.
60hz - Most common with North American sport rarely will be here in the UK unless perhaps you somehow watch american satellite.
The higher the hz, the less judder you will notice in the source, the less blur you will notice too. TVs with higher hz can help this, but ultimately you are always going to be limited by the source hz of material.
TVs have different technology to reduce both judder and blur:
So to place TVs in different categories:
Best for motion:
These TVs use higher hz panels and can use blank frame insertion to achieve good motion without introducing soap opera effect:
OLEDs:
Panasonic: All
Philips: All
Sony: All
Sony: All
These OLEDs can't use blank frame insertion as strongly as LCDs, but they still rank very highly because they have less native motion blur to begin with. If its natural motion judder you are trying to avoid, you may wish to demo motion on these TVs first as you may not find them adequate enough with motion smoothness.
LCDs:
Samsung: Every QLED model. NU8000, NU8500
LG: SK8000 and higher (excl 49" SK8100/SK8000)
Panasonic: FX750
Philips: 8 and 9 series
Sony: XF83xx series (60 and 70" only), XF85xx series and higher other sizes.
Every tv manufacturer uses slightly different motion controls. They all now can use blank frame insertion, but some do it better than others. Some can't achieve quite the same level of clearness or smoothness without also using interpolation.
Currently (best to worse) Samsung, Philips and Panasonic let you have the best motion without using interpolation or introducing lots of flicker.
Sony rank a little lower in my opinion because they flicker a bit more than the others and can't meet the same levels of motion without also introducing slight interpolation also.
LG are probably the worse, they at least have blank frame insertion now but the can't set it very strongly and rely on interpolation a lot to get better motion.
Every other TV unmentioned but on the list in post 2 won't be as good with motion because either they don't have blank frame insertion at all or they have slower hz panels so they only let you use frame insertion by a small amount.
Its important to note that 99% of people will find the TVs not listed fine for motion and they will appear the same with motion out of the box. This guide only applies too:
Who this doesn't apply too:
Please feel free to add/critique the info. This info is very heavily dependent on my own opinion with motion, by no means is anything set in stone.
A recent video did a comparison of OLED vs Plasma, here's the link to the motion part:
- How smooth an image is
- How much blur an image has when it travels fast
These points are heavily controlled by source material. To give you an idea of the hz of different material:
24hz - Most common in Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray, films and recent TV shows on Amazon/Netflix etc
25hz - Most common in broadcast TV. This includes on demand TV like BBC iPlayer, ITV player, ALL4, UKTV Play, Demand 5 etc
30hz - Most common in older american TV shows
50hz - Most common with sport, Sky/BT football/match of the day and formula 1..athletics still. Some older/less common sport may only be 25hz.
60hz - Most common with North American sport rarely will be here in the UK unless perhaps you somehow watch american satellite.
The higher the hz, the less judder you will notice in the source, the less blur you will notice too. TVs with higher hz can help this, but ultimately you are always going to be limited by the source hz of material.
TVs have different technology to reduce both judder and blur:
- Blank Frame insertion - This works by inserting blank coloured frames, usually black in between each frame. On LCDs at the same time the back lights strobe very fast to make the image appear smoother with less blur. Side effects include: flicker, darkened image.
- Motion interpolation - This work by inserting created frames, the frames are calculated to be a mix between the first and last and inserted inbetween. Side effects: Motion artefacts (such as a trail behind a moving ball), soap opera effect. (Link to video of example)
So to place TVs in different categories:
Best for motion:
These TVs use higher hz panels and can use blank frame insertion to achieve good motion without introducing soap opera effect:
OLEDs:
Panasonic: All
Philips: All
Sony: All
Sony: All
These OLEDs can't use blank frame insertion as strongly as LCDs, but they still rank very highly because they have less native motion blur to begin with. If its natural motion judder you are trying to avoid, you may wish to demo motion on these TVs first as you may not find them adequate enough with motion smoothness.
LCDs:
Samsung: Every QLED model. NU8000, NU8500
LG: SK8000 and higher (excl 49" SK8100/SK8000)
Panasonic: FX750
Philips: 8 and 9 series
Sony: XF83xx series (60 and 70" only), XF85xx series and higher other sizes.
Every tv manufacturer uses slightly different motion controls. They all now can use blank frame insertion, but some do it better than others. Some can't achieve quite the same level of clearness or smoothness without also using interpolation.
Currently (best to worse) Samsung, Philips and Panasonic let you have the best motion without using interpolation or introducing lots of flicker.
Sony rank a little lower in my opinion because they flicker a bit more than the others and can't meet the same levels of motion without also introducing slight interpolation also.
LG are probably the worse, they at least have blank frame insertion now but the can't set it very strongly and rely on interpolation a lot to get better motion.
Every other TV unmentioned but on the list in post 2 won't be as good with motion because either they don't have blank frame insertion at all or they have slower hz panels so they only let you use frame insertion by a small amount.
Its important to note that 99% of people will find the TVs not listed fine for motion and they will appear the same with motion out of the box. This guide only applies too:
- People who actually go in to the settings of their TV and enable blank frame insertion and people are a sensitive to motion.
- Gamers with Samsung TVs (NU8000 and higher) can use both dark frame insertion and motion interpolation in games now.
- Gamers of other manufacturers such as LG, Panasonic and Sony may be able to use only dark frame insertion, but their implementation of it is not as good as Samsung's.
Who this doesn't apply too:
- Those who don't turn motion options on in the settings.
- Those very sensitive to the flicker used with blank frame insertion
- Those who don't know how to raise their brightness after using blank frame insertion (you need to do this as the image darkens when using it).
Please feel free to add/critique the info. This info is very heavily dependent on my own opinion with motion, by no means is anything set in stone.
A recent video did a comparison of OLED vs Plasma, here's the link to the motion part:
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