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?
Video Tech Explained has a video about HDR formats https://youtu.be/Q_-qNvP4DW0
My guess would be that some DolbyVision content uses unrealistically high values for highlights from that 10 000 nit dynamic allowed when OLED tvs have maximum around 600 and back lit have a maximum around 1000 and that results eveything else being tone mapped really dim. Nothing much you can do if the content is mastered in a way it doesn’t work well on consumer displays.
There’s another video about HDR in general https://youtu.be/aJE1C9enYNc