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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Post by asimovDev »

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #118
nwellinghoff wrote: post #108

He is absolutely right. The soap opera effect totally ruins the look of most movies. I still use a good old 1080p plasma on default. It always looks good

I watched the most recent avatar and it was some HDR variant that had this effect turned up. It definitely dampens the experience. There’s something about that slightly fuzzed movement that just makes things on screen look better

from what I heard, the actions scenes are shot in 48 fps and others are in 24 fps or something along those lines. You might be talking about that ?

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

Nihilartikel wrote: post #545
gchamonlive wrote: post #537

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my LG OLED I think it looks bad. Whites are off and I feel like the colours are squashed. Might be more accurate, but it's bad for me. I prefer to use standard, disable everything and put the white balance on neutral, neither cold nor warm.

I had just recently factory reset my samsung S90C QDOLED - and had to work through the annoying process of dialing the settings back to something sane and tasteful. Filmmaker mode only got it part of the way there. The white balance was still set to warm, and inexplicably HDR was static (ignoring the content 'hints'), and even then the contrast seemed off, and I had to set the dynamic contrast to 'low' (whatever that…

This is all correct.

“Filmmaker Mode” on LG OLED was horrible. Yes, all of the “extra” features were off, but it was overly warm and unbalanced as hell. I either don’t understand “Filmmakers” or that mode is intended to be so bad that you will need to fix it yourself.

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Post by MadameMinty »

mat0 wrote: post #554

I don’t follow Stranger Things, so I cannot speak about the quality of the show, but I clicked on the link to see which settings the guy was talking about and I was surprised about how awful the CGI of that shot looks like. It’s hideous. Looks worse than 10 year old video games. What is that about? Am I going crazy?

I see it. Overworked special effects artists, I suppose. It's funny how well some movie CGI from the 90s holds up in comparison.

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Post by phantasmish »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #449
allturtles wrote: post #430

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> That was the principle many years ago, you had to leave the world exactly in the state you found it in. This is not true as a generality. e.g. soap operas had long-running stories long before DVRs. Many prime-time dramas and comedies had major event episodes that changed things dramatically (character deaths, weddings, break-ups, etc.), e.g. the whole "Who shot J.R." event on *Dallas*. Almost all shows that I watch…

Parent comment was (I think), specifically talking about sitcoms from what I understood. Sitcoms are - and I know this is a little condescending to point out - comedies contrived to exist in a particular situation: situation comedy → sitcom. In the old day, the "situation" needed to be relatively relatable and static to allow drop-in viewers channel surfing, or the casual viewer the parent described. Soap operas and…

Soaps had publications in checkout lanes that’d catch you up on anything you missed.

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Post by killerstorm »

joquarky wrote: post #119
pupppet wrote: post #66

The fact that I have to turn on closed captioning to understand anything tells me these producers have no idea what we want and shouldn’t be telling us what settings to use.

One problem is that the people mixing the audio already know what is being said: Top-down processing (or more specifically, top-down auditory perception) This refers to perception being driven by prior knowledge, expectations, and context rather than purely by sensory input. When you already know the dialog, your brain projects that knowledge onto the sound and experiences it as “clear.”

Well, somehow, most of short-form content on YouTube doesn't have this problem. Perfectly clear dialogs.

I think the main problem is that producers and audio people are stupid, pompous wankers. And I guess it doesn't help that some people go to cinema for vibrations and don't care about the content.

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Post by pixl97 »

drdec wrote: post #481
lotsofpulp wrote: post #441

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Costco’s whole thing is selling larger quantities, most times at a lower per unit price than other retailers such as Walmart. Walmart’s wholesale competitor to Costco is Sam’s Club. Also, Costco’s price labels always show the per unit price of the product (as do Walmart’s, in my experience).

Showing a unit price on the label is a requirement of US law.

Which unit is the fun game that gets played. I've seen way to many products right beside each other that use different measurements.

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Post by dpark »

thesuitonym wrote: post #505
randerson wrote: post #497

I'd pay good money for a dumb 4K OLED TV that does nothing but show whatever is coming in through the HDMI port. I use a Playstation 5 for everything including Netflix, Apple TV and so on. But every time I turn on the PS5, my TV detects the Playstation and automatically changes the TV's Sound and Video modes to "Gaming", which makes dialog difficult to hear on TV. So I change the setting manually using its horrible r…

Sceptre makes them, and they're not terribly expensive, although in the US the price has gone up significantly for some strange, remote reason.

Do they actually make OLEDs? I haven’t bought a tv in quite a while but last I looked dumb OLED TVs didn’t exist.

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Post by npodbielski »

MasterScrat wrote: post #303
epistasis wrote: post #21

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Careful what you wish for, or we might get AI-powered "Vibrant Story" filters that reduce 62 minutes of plot-less filler to a 5 minute summary of the only relevant points. Or that try to generate some logic to make the magic in the story make narrative sense.

Just so you know, this is already very much a thing on TikTok: AI-generated movie summaries with narrator voice explaining the plot while showing only major beats, reducing movie from 2h to shorts totaling 10min. It’s honestly not the worse AI content out there! Lots of movies I wouldn’t consider watching but that I’m curious enough to see summarized (eg a movie where only the first title was good but two more were s…

Then why bother at all? If you do not find 2h of watching entertaining than just do not watch it. It is like reading wiki summary of a good book or licking good burger because you do not want to chew.
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