Christopher Nolan and Paul Thomas Anderson Declare War on Motion Smoothing

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If TVs defaulted to Movie mode most consumers would return them.

I would like to know how this "reference mode" is capable of displaying content as the creators' intended without calibration?

Movie modes are getting more and more accurate (and most of them have post-processing turned off), but most people watch content in mixed environments, there's never going to be a one mode to rule them all mode. The closet I've seen is Nu-Vision displays that have a Day/Night button.