Sony X900F X-Motion Clarity issue - is this normal?

by sam-tm

Hey guys,

So I finally upgraded to an android TV coming from Samsung and got the Sony X900F. I heard/read about the X motion clarity and put the settings accordingly to turn it on (Motion flow set to custom, smoothness on max, and clearness on 1. Also, cinemotion set to high). At first screen went black so I changed the channel and voila everything seemed so much smoother which is great. However, I noticed that when watching the news, the bottom text scroller that shows you other news headlines would intermittently judder. It would start out as a smooth scrolling of text but then suddenly starts lagging and would judder for a good 15 ish seconds before going back to normal smoothness. Is this normal? It doesn't bother me too much but I was just wondering if the TV could be defective or some setting was off..

Thanks for any help :)

Update: When turning the tv on, I sometimes get just a black screen.. changing the channel fixes this but I'm wondering if it has to do with the X-Motion Clarity setting since that is what happened right after I first put the setting on? ;/

gsxrmike04

Just bought that TV myself and I did update the firmware with in the first few hours, I would check to see if yours is the latest version, I know there's a fix for the motion clarity in the update

soxtamc

So far from what I've read, Smoothness manages the known Soap Opera Effect, and it has nothing to do with X-Motion Clarity.

Clearness on the other hand is the setting you want to set to "1" in order to enable BFI with a minimal loss on brightness (aka X-Motion Clarity on X900F).

Also, I don't know if the setting "CineMotion" should be "on" while using these. One thing is for motion clarity and the last one to achieve judder-free image.

Correct me if I'm wrong.