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?

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    I was playing around with my TV settings last night, coincidentally due to a game losing detail for being too bright but its the same problem.

    Rather than changing the brightness directly, I instead changed the “display mode”. The options are like, “dynamic, cool, neutral, standard, theatre” etc.

    I had dynamic selected which on normal scenes (not too dark or bright) it looked really good, but made dark scenes difficult to see and lost details where its too bright.

    Setting it back to “neutral” or similar made a huge difference. It did make the normal scenes appear a little washed out but I’m already used to it and can now see what I was missing before.

    I think the dynamic mode was blowing out the contrast like crazy

    • @LosLocoDKOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      Yeah, that is my problem. I have calibrated my new TV to meet optimal color and light levels - and it looks absolutely great in like 96% of all I’ve thrown at it.

      But watching See last night was a nightmare. And I know AppleTV+ can look good, as I just finished watching Silo, and even though that by design is also a quite dark show, I never lost sight of what was going on.

      I guess there’s not much to do other than turn up the brightness. Which shouldn’t be necessary. But alas, the world is not perfect.