I have never seen a 4K TV do a good job upscaling sub 1080p content. That's a limitation of the switch and there is not much you can do.
Yep. I think the C9 does a very decent job with the Switch. Actually, when I first saw Switch games run on a 4K TV, I was honestly impressed by what modern upscalers can do. I swear 1080p TVs from the start of the decade did a poorer job with 480p content.
I'd say usually the in-built apps are the best way to use Netflix/Prime Video/Youtube etc, just because the TV will handle everything itself without you having to make sure the (for example) Xbox is outputting the best/right signal for the TV.
When you say the motion is different in the internal app vs the xbox app are you talking about the exact same content in the same picture mode with the same picture settings? I know this sounds silly but sometimes its the most obvious thing, ie are the motion settings the same on the HDMI input the xbox is on and the internal app's settings? You have different settings for each video input AND the internal apps have their own settings.
I’m talking about the exact same content in the exact same picture mode. I’m using Expert Dark Room for movies, and I have the same settings for this mode on every video input.
I’ll give you a concrete example. At the beginning of
The Godfather there’s some scenes with a lot of people dancing. I’ve watched this movie on Amazon Prime Video.
With the webOS app that comes pre-installed with the C9, those scenes are very blurry if I don’t have TruMotion on. When I turn on TruMotion (I set it to “Clear”), though, the movement looks very natural, except with very fast scenes and in stuff like flames, which do look excessively smooth.
When I run the same scenes from the Prime app on XBoxOneX, the movie looks grainier, but I find the dancing scenes much better in motion, less blurry and not needing smoothing. Then again, if I turn on TruMotion in this instance, even with the same settings as I’d use on the webOS app, the soap opera effect is immediately noticeable.
I’ve watched these scenes (and others in different movies) very closely to evaluate stutter and blur, so I’m definitely sure that there’s a difference between movies running on the pre-installed apps and movies running on the same apps, but from external sources.