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Your TV Is Ruining Every Movie You Watch

The presenter describes a "glitch" on modern TVs that makes movies look "too smooth," like store display models, which he later identifies as a feature designed to compensate for an older technological problem. This issue stems from the fundamental difference in how movies are shot and how modern TVs display them. Movies have been traditionally shot at 24 frames per second (fps) for nearly a century. This standard emerged from early cinema, which leveraged the "persistence of vision" in human eyes to create the illusion of movement from a sequence of still images. Early cinematographers discovered that around 12 frames per second was the minimum to avoid flickering, but the industry eventually settled on 24 fps. This rate was partly chosen for practical reasons, such as syncing audio in the transition from silent films and aligning with film length calculations (90 feet of film per minute at 24 fps). It also became part of the "language of film," where subtle details like film grain, noise, and a slight flicker contributed to an immersive yet distinctly non-real aesthetic.