If you really want to see what these settings are effecting. Set them to 10x, it really shows the transitions well. Of course after playing set them back to .5x or zero.
Thanks, I tried your little trick to see the "difference" and WOW, the phone went from running in quick sand to lightning fast. After reading about the tweak I switched from 1.0 to 0.05. I have now turned animation OFF.