Motion smoothing is designed to reduce motion blur. It doesn't always work, because it's just heuristic processing that attempts to estimate the missing informa

Motion smoothing is designed to reduce motion blur. It doesn't always work, because it's just heuristic processing that attempts to estimate the missing information, but when the motion is easily predictable (pans are an obvious case), and the exposure time (shutter angle) is low, it can do an excellent job of interpolating the missing frames. This eliminates the sample-and-hold blur[0] that would otherwise appear. It's motion sharpening, not motion blur. [0] Blur Busters has a good introduction, that's relevant to all non-flickering displays, not just OLED: https://www.blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur/ https://www.blurbusters.com/faq/oled-motion-blur/