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Note that if you don’t see the setting in question in your TV’s menu, it either doesn’t support motion smoothing at all, or doesn’t allow users to disable it.

Note that on Roku-based TVs, you’ll need to press the remote’s Options button (it’s the one with the asterisk on it) separately on each input to change the motion smoothing setting.

Located south of Cancun, Puerto Morelos offers more than white sand beaches and the Rivera Maya’s best snorkeling. It is also home to the Puerto Morelos Market, a shopping collective founded by residents in 2015 and has been rising in popularity since.

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Motion smoothing, which is also known as video interpolation or, more colloquially, the soap opera effect, is a post-processing technique applied by a television to video it’s displaying. The TV takes the video feed’s individual frames — of which there are typically 24 per second for movies, and 30 or 60 per second for TV broadcasts and streaming services — and artificially inserts extra frames between the existing ones. In doing so, it scales up the frame rate to match the screen’s native refresh rate of 60 Hz or 120 Hz. TVs use interpolation (i.e., they do math) to make educated guesses as to what the in-between frames should look like, and generate them in real time. Hence the alternate name!

Traditional Otomi textiles from central Mexico bring a touch of color and nature to your local treasures. Hand-painted alebrijes (small fantasy creature figurines from Oaxaca state) are sold at affordable prices.

Markets take place two Saturdays a month during this time, usually from mid-morning to late afternoon. Sometimes, they’ll even organize some surprise summertime market dates.

The Puerto Morelos Market showcases products made by residents, as well as those from regional businesses larger, metropolitan areas such as Cancun and Playa del Carmen. Local artists, jewelry makers, bakers, and designers line up tables of their products on the sandy floor.

Not to worry: We’re here to help you save the day. Now, it’s probably not worth bringing this up at the pub — but if you’re spending time with family over the holidays, your uncle is presumably (somewhat) less likely to ask you to leave than your favorite bartender would be. So why not do everyone a favor and help them watch things As The Filmmakers Intended™?

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The technology, which rose to prominence with the advent of high-definition televisions in the mid-2000s, is a terrific demonstration of the adage that ignorance is bliss. If you know what motion smoothing is, there’s a good chance that it drives you mad every time you see it in action at your parents’ house, or at a local sports bar, or on the wall of TVs at Target. Meanwhile, normal people happily live their lives free of this mental prison, unaware that there’s anything wrong with what they’re seeing (perhaps because the feature is often enabled by default).

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Clothing and accessories inspired by local Maya culture can be found at several tables, with options like purses, blouses, and huipiles (traditional Maya everyday dress). Plus, local Riviera Maya designers bring racks of bikinis and breezy, beach-friendly clothing for you to wear throughout your stay in Puerto Morelos.

Name: Auto Motion Plus / Picture ClarityLocation: Regardless of what it’s called on your Samsung TV, the motion smoothing setting lives in essentially the same place.

As of 2023, many of the latest TV models — especially higher-end ones — offer a feature called Filmmaker Mode, which debuted a few years ago as the result of a collaboration between consumer electronics companies, movie and TV studios, and Hollywood creatives. Filmmaker Mode disables all post-processing effects, including motion smoothing, and ensures that a TV is displaying content in its original aspect ratio with the appropriate brightness levels and the highest possible accuracy in colors.

As you browse the rows of brightly-colored wares, you’ll see that the vendors are far less pushy here than at other markets in the area. Also, they’re always excited to answer any questions you have about the inspirations for their products.

Name: Motion EnhancementLocation: This will depend on your specific TV, since some higher-end Hisense models allow users to adjust video settings separately for each input, but here are two common menu setups:

Baked items like homemade bread and desserts come neatly wrapped and placed in baskets. Food industry products like local salsas and jams offer a more organic alternative to grocery store items.

The market provides Puerto Morelos residents and visitors alike with a great way to discover regional artists while supporting local businesses throughout the Riviera Maya without breaking the bank. Thanks to its central location at a local beach club, it’s quick and easy to stop by this artists’ market during a Saturday at the beach.

Almost every one of the major TV brands has its own special name for motion smoothing, so it can be difficult to hunt it down in your settings menu. Thankfully, we’ve done that work for you! Simply scroll down to learn what your TV maker calls it, and where to find it so you can disable it.

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Name: Smooth Motion EffectLocation: Settings > All Settings > Picture > Advanced Picture > Motion Control > Smooth Motion Effect

Settings > Picture > Expert Settings > Auto Motion Plus Settings > Auto Motion PlusSettings > Picture > Expert Settings > Picture Clarity Settings > Picture Clarity

The Puerto Morelos Market takes place at My Paradise Beach Club, located several blocks north of the main square in Puerto Morelos. You can find the back entrance on Calle Plutarco Elias, or walk in straight from the beach (look for the big arrow sign).

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TCL’s settings menu varies depending on your particular model’s smart TV platform. Some of the company’s TVs rely on Roku, while others use Google TV. TCL also manufactures displays that have Amazon’s Fire OS as their smart TV platform, but we were unable to confirm the motion smoothing features of those models.

As Shakespeare might have put it (but probably didn’t): Motion smoothing is known by many names, yet it’s just as much of a scourge no matter what you call it.

The goal of this technique is to smooth out the footage and reduce motion blur. While it works as advertised, it can wreak havoc on the video itself (by introducing input lag as well as visual artifacts, a type of anomaly that arises from the challenges of algorithmically interpolating frames) and on the intended appearance of films and TV shows. After all, the other alternate name is a similarly literal one: Turning motion smoothing all the way up will make a movie look the way daytime soap operas on television do, with uncannily fluid motion that robs films of their cinematic look. (It’s worth noting that there is one area where motion smoothing can be useful: watching live sports.)

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Name (Google TV): Motion ClarityLocation: Settings > Display & Sound > Picture > Advanced Settings > Motion > Motion Clarity

The people who make movies and TV shows despise motion smoothing, as you might expect. Rian Johnson, director of the Knives Out films and Star Wars: The Last Jedi, described the feature in a since-deleted tweet as making movies “look like liquid diarrhea.” Christopher McQuarrie is the writer-director of the past three Mission: Impossible films, but his most enduring work in my mind may be the minute-and-a-half-long video he shot with Tom Cruise five years ago from the set of Top Gun: Maverick, in which the two of them explained why motion smoothing is bad and recommended that cinephiles disable it.

Settings > Display & Sound > Picture > Color/Clarity > Motion EnhancementSettings > Display & Sound > Picture > Advanced Settings > Motion Enhancement

Since the market is usually housed underneath a large tent, rain isn’t often an issue and probably won’t lead to event cancellations.

If your TV supports Filmmaker Mode, you’ll usually be able to find it as a distinct setting in the list of picture modes, alongside typical options like Standard, Vivid, Game, Movie, and Sports. In addition, certain types of content feature metadata that can automatically enable it during playback, whether you’re watching via a built-in smart TV app or a plugged-in device like an Apple TV 4K. So if you pull up an HDR movie on, say, Netflix or Prime Video, it should flip on Filmmaker Mode without you having to change the picture setting yourself.

If you find a vendor you particularly like, ask the artist for a business card. Many locally-run Riviera Maya businesses don’t have an official website, but almost all of them have a Facebook page where you can order their products.