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How to turn motion smoothing off on LG TVs
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Most people turn their TVs on and don’t tend to change either the picture or the settings, and some people don’t know how to navigate the settings of TVs to figure out what they need to do.
Motion smoothing, technically referred to as MEMC (Motion Estimation, Motion Compensation) or more colloquially known as the Soap Opera Effect (SOE), can affect picture quality in unwated ways, adding blurring, noise, or breaking up the picture signal when it’s turned on.
If that’s an issue you’re currently experience on your LG TV, turning off the motion smoothing (known as TruMotion on LG TVs) may help the picture performance. Here’s how to turn off motion smoothing onLG TVs.
What you’ll need
The Short Version
Step1
Go to the Menu settings
You can get to the menu settings through one of two ways. Press the menu button on the LG remote and it’ll bring up the quick menu from which you can select the icon that looks like a cog and that’ll you take you the settings.A quicker way is to long press on the same menu button, and that’ll instantly take you to menus.
Step2
Select the Picture menu
Once you’ve got to the main settings menu, the Picture menu will be the first one at the top. Click on that.
Step3
Go to Advanced settings
From there you’ll need to go to the bottom of the list and select Advanced Settings
Step4
Go to Clarity
From within the Advanced Settings menu, at the bottom is the Clarity setting. Click on that
Step5
Head to the TruMotion setting
Head to the TruMotion setting, which covers motion smoothing on LG TVs.
Step6
Turn TruMotion off
There are several options to pick from that includes Cinematic Movement or Natural, but what you’re looking for is ‘off’. We would say though that LG’s motion smoothing has become very good, especially on its LG OLED TVs, introducing few picture artifacts. It’s one of the motion settings you may want to consider leaving on if you have no problem with it.
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