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Comment by vitaflo | original | The MacBook Pro's OLED PWM Problem: When a 'Better' Display Becomes Worse to Use
[−]vitaflo · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:26 UTC · link
On the other end is motion stutter on OLEDs. Because of sample-and-hold, the blur goes away but the image stutters on slow moving scenes instead. If your eyes are sensitive to PWM (mine are) it's quite annoying to watch OLED movement as well.
[−]NathanielK · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:34 UTC · link
This os fairly fixable with post processing in your video player. For non video things, it goes away at higher framerates.
[−]vitaflo · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:43 UTC · link
Yes but then you introduce a soap opera effect. There's no silver bullet outside of BFI but that also causes flicker.
[−]sowbug · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:57 UTC · link
Is that what I'm seeing on my LG C series? Every so often when I'm watching streaming video, and the scene changes, the action seems to skip frames for maybe a quarter of a second. It happens rarely enough that I haven't narrowed it down to the TV, the attached Chromecast, the streaming app, or the content.

The only setting I recall changing on the TV is the one that stops the soap-opera effect.

[−]vitaflo · 2026-11-15 Sun 17:29 UTC · link
Yup that's it. And that's why they add motion interpolation (soap opera effect) to get rid of it, but then you get the soap opera effect.
[−]deagle50 · 2026-11-15 Sun 19:15 UTC · link
I think you're seeing telecine judder. The video's framerate doesn't find the diplay's refresh rate, and the TV doesn't handle it well. This is why my old Pioreer Kuro switched to 48hz on 24fps content, and it was amazing.

OLED sample-and-hold causes blur.