Am I the only person who thinks that much of HDR content looks overblown and completely unnatural, almost neon glow on TV's if in their 'intended' settings?
It doesn't look like this in real life hence I almost always turn things down to a more realistic level. This also brings me to panel brightness. The drive is for more and more brightness. Now I happen to have a lowly (brightness) LG C4 here. It is PLENTY bright enough to view even in a sun drenched room in Expert bright mode with brightness turned down to around 70 (out of a hundred) and all other brightness boosting settings turned off other than brightness boost at minimum (as supposed to turned off).
If I watch HDR stuff with everything turned to maximum, even in Film maker or Expert mode, it really hurts my eyes and that is not even in a dark room.
Dynamic tone mapping is probably one of the worst, single offenders making everything caricature like. Great for cartoons, not so much for all else.
Fazit, for me at least, ultimate brightness is plenty with even moderate expensive TV's and less important than expanded colour gamut/volume with QLED or QD-OLED.
Similar to processor advancements in mobile phones which surely have peaked/have been sufficient for a few years now.
It doesn't look like this in real life hence I almost always turn things down to a more realistic level. This also brings me to panel brightness. The drive is for more and more brightness. Now I happen to have a lowly (brightness) LG C4 here. It is PLENTY bright enough to view even in a sun drenched room in Expert bright mode with brightness turned down to around 70 (out of a hundred) and all other brightness boosting settings turned off other than brightness boost at minimum (as supposed to turned off).
If I watch HDR stuff with everything turned to maximum, even in Film maker or Expert mode, it really hurts my eyes and that is not even in a dark room.
Dynamic tone mapping is probably one of the worst, single offenders making everything caricature like. Great for cartoons, not so much for all else.
Fazit, for me at least, ultimate brightness is plenty with even moderate expensive TV's and less important than expanded colour gamut/volume with QLED or QD-OLED.
Similar to processor advancements in mobile phones which surely have peaked/have been sufficient for a few years now.
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