#trumotion

In a recent interview with Vulture, as reported on by exclaim, ‘Stranger Things’ creators the Duffer Brothers spoke about “motion” settings on modern televisions. You might not even be aware that they’re on, but according to them, settings like “TruMotion” and “Smooth motion” are ruining movies and TV:

“Us and everyone in Hollywood puts so much time and effort and money into getting things to look just right,” says Matt, “and when you see it in someone’s home, it looks like it was shot on an iPhone.”

“It’s shocking!” says Ross. “We were just at Comic-Con, and we walk on the main floor and the settings on every single TV is wrong. I was like, ‘Didn’t a bunch of nerds put this together? What is wrong with them?’ ”

“When I go to my friends’ places back home,” says Matt, “I’m constantly fixing their TVs.”

“But they don’t notice!” says Ross. “I’ll be like, ‘This looks like garbage,’ and I go into the settings and fix it for them, and they’re like, ‘It doesn’t look any different.’ ”

Thankfully, the brothers have a solution. Turn that shit off.

“So,” I interject, now thinking about my own TV settings, which I’m sure I haven’t touched since the day my set came out of the box: “What are the proper settings?”

“The key thing is to turn off anything that says ‘motion,’ ” says Matt. “ ‘TruMotion.’ ‘Smooth motion.’ ” He spits out these words like they’re epithets.