Hey guys and gals!
I was wondering how you feel about - and deal with - really dark tv shows? I’m talking about dark in the context of light emitted, not feelings ;-)
I’m watching See, and while I do appreciate blind people not having a lot of lights turned on at all times, I’m finding it almost unbearable to watch because of how dark it is at times.
I’m having to bump my TV settings up - which is kind of a hassle as I had it really nicely calibrated (damn I love oled by the way) - just to have to turn it back down (and hope to remember those settings) not to get blinded when I watch anything remotely normally illuminated.
I remember this being a topic in the last seasons (or season) of Game of Thrones too - but back then I had an old TV with bad contrast anyway, so I wasn’t hit that hard by it.
How do you feel about too dark tv shows and movies? And how do you deal with it?
A better TV/monitor, rarely is the scene actually too dark.
The big thing for me was disabling HDR in all the apps and devices that support doing so.
My 4K and 8K Samsung sets have, apparently, the WORST implementation of HDR possible. Everything looks dark, muddy, and unwatchable. Calibration does nothing.
The only thing that works is turning off HDR in the apps and devices. The television itself doesn’t have the ability to disable it there.
For that GOT episode, I boosted the gamma through the roof on my monitor. Same for games that are just too dark.
We live in a small flat and so projector was the best space saving TV option (we just project onto a big white wall). It’s a good projector, but I still can’t watch a bunch of shows during the day.
But generally, brightness up, contrast maxed, and saturation down slightly helps us, I just have it sey as a user preset. And as others have said, higher definition matters a lot.
Calibrate well and close the curtains.
The battle episode in the mentioned Game of Thrones example was made to look like that, by choice. Not a good choice but what we can do is just suffer through it and move on.