Hi, a friend of mine got an Sony TV running AndroidTV, it clains to have native 120hz, but, he's complaining about judder, "any 120hz tv should have 24p judder free bla bla bla"
But, it has judder, and he is thinking that his tv is defective for some reason.
So, does AndroidTV, in a 120hz native display, runs at this refresh rate or the system runs locked at 30 or 60hz (30 / 60 fps)?
I never see my TV change frame rates using my Mi Box even though I know I have 24fps material in Plex. It could be a Plex problem also I don't know. I'll see with the nougat patch if it's still happening then contact Plex devs about it then.
Have the TV's motion smoothing settings been correctly set ?
What about the Cinema or Movie mode on these TV's ?
This settings are all designed to smooth out 24p video playback.
Requirements for smooth video playback:
a) An App like Kodi that incorporates dynamic refresh rate switching that alters the TV's refresh rate to match the frames per second of the source video being played.
b) With some external media players (possibly TV's as well) that incorporate the above switching functionality - once say a 23.976fps movie is played - Kodi switches the TV to its 24p Movie or Cinema mode (if set in TV settings) and this mode will smooth out video playback considerably.
c) 99% of Android Apps cannot dynamically switch TV's refresh rates to match the fps of video content. Try using Kodi and make sure you have the Kodi Settings > Player > Adjust Display Refresh Rate > Start/Stop selected. Do NOT touch Kodi Sync playback to display.
The TV will only run at 60 Hz, AFAIK it's a limitation of Android.
Very few TV's can pull off judder free 24p.
there are no 120hz tvs, and hdmi did not even support that until hdmi2. make sure you turn off any motion smoothing since the android tv will have 2:3 pull down simulated so you dont want the tv trying to smooth that.
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you really should never have motion smoothing turned on, but for anything interpolating frame rate it really needs to be all the way off.
I know the shield tv will output a true 24hz signal (you can see the UI get choppy when it switches modes) but I have no idea how the sony ones run.