If you’re unaware of the controversial nature of motion smoothing (a feature found on nearly every modern TV), then two things are likely true: The first is that you probably have motion smoothing enabled on your own TV right now, and the second is that Tom Cruise is personally disappointed in you.

You probably have it enabled because the motion smoothing setting is typically turned on by default. For this reason, Tom Cruise asked his fans to disable motion smoothing ahead of the home video release of “Mission: Impossible - Fallout.”

“The unfortunate side effect,” the actor said in a PSA about motion smoothing, “is that it makes most movies look like they were shot on high-speed video rather than film.”

That effect is commonly (and disparagingly) referred to as “the soap opera effect,”

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