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		23B1 on July 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing featur... What I don't understand is why cinephiles would be streaming through a Roku anyway. Shouldn't they be downloading 18K TURBO-HD straight from the Academy's server?

TheCoelacanth on July 5, 2024 [–]

You don't have to be a cinephile to not want movies to look like soap operas

itronitron on July 8, 2024 | [–]

If there is a video processing technology to make actual soap operas not look like soap operas then that could probably be used to make soap operas watchable.

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