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Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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for me it ruins cinematic content, for sports i don't mind

It ruins it for me as well but from my understanding many people can't tell the difference.

Yes! A lot people can't tell the difference. It's just sad. Tells you how engaged people are with what they they watch.

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Heavily compressed.

If you check it will say the resolution is AMAZING. Despite being a subscriber I pirate their shows to get some pixels.

Where do pirates get the shows from? Not from the very platform you're trying to avoid?

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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The choice wasn't intentional, it was forced by technology and in turn, methods were molded by technological limitation. What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ? The film IS the burger, you said it yourself, it shows off where the movie cheapened on things. If you want a steak you need steak framerate

> The choice wasn't intentional, I'm a filmmaker. Yes, it was. > What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ? Try playing an SNES game on CRT versus with pixel upscaling. The art direction was chosen for the technology. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jh2ssirC1oQ > The film IS the burger, you said it yourself, it shows off where the movie cheapened on things. If you want a steak you…

>> The choice wasn't intentional,

>I'm a filmmaker. Yes, it was.

What you are is dishonest. Quote my entire sentence not cut it in half changing its entire meaning

> The choice wasn't intentional, it was forced by technology and in turn, methods were molded by technological limitation.

There was no choice unless you think "just make it look bad by ignoring tech limitations" is realistic choice of someone actually taking money for their job.

>> What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ?

>Try playing an SNES game on CRT versus with pixel upscaling.

>The art direction was chosen for the technology.

There was no choice involved. You had to do it because that was what tech required from you for it to look good.

The technology changed, so art direction changed with it. Why can't movie industry keep up while gaming industry had dozen of revolutions like this ?

> You don't need 48fps to make a good film. You don't need a big budget either.

But you can take it and make it better.

> If you want to take a piece of art and have it look garish, you do you.

"Don't have budget to double the framerate" is fair argument. Why you don't use that instead of assuming anything made in better tech will be "garish" ?

Your argument is essentially saying "I don't have enough skill to use new tech and still make it look great"

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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The choice wasn't intentional, it was forced by technology and in turn, methods were molded by technological limitation. What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ? The film IS the burger, you said it yourself, it shows off where the movie cheapened on things. If you want a steak you need steak framerate

> What next, gonna complain resolution is too high and you can see costume seams ? They literally had to invent new types of makeup because HD provided more skin detail than was previously available. It’s why you’ll find a lot of foundation marketed as “HD cream”.

that's just progress, so get the 60 fps cream next then :)

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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author's intentions for how stuff should be watched are overrated ...that being said motion interpolation is abomination

At the end of the day the viewer should get to see what they want to see. But in my case I usually want to see what the author had in mind, and I want my TV to respect that preference.

I have no qualms for changing it if it makes it look better for me but "what the TV manufacturer wanted users to see" is near always just.. bad

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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From the first four episodes released before Christmas, I feel far more worried if the season is worth watching at all, not what TV settings to use. The tone felt considerably different: constant action, little real plot, character interaction felt a shallow reflection of prior seasons, exposition rather than foreshadowing and development. I was cringing during the “Tom, Dick and Harry” section. From body language, t…

It also feels like they took some of the things people enjoyed in previous seasons like cultural references and protagonists using analogy to explain things, and just put way too much of that in this season. It's good in moderation, but this season it feels excessive.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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24 fps looks like terrible judder to me in the cinema too. I'm not afraid to admit it even if it will ruffle the feathers of the old 24 fps purists. It was always just a compromise between film cost and smoothness. A compromise that isn't relevant any longer with digital medium. But we can't have nice things it seems, because some people can't get over what they're used to.

>It was always just a compromise between film cost and smoothness. I think the criticisms of The Hobbit when it came out in 48fps showed that it's not just that.

The 48 fps of The Hobbit was glorious. First time I have ever been able to see what is happening on screen instead of just some slide deck mess. There were many other things worth criticizing, but the framerate was not it.

Re: Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings

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Since people will at large not do this because they don't read Screenrant and how this needs to cut though the massive social media noise and we're looking at millions of viewers, what is the consequences with this particular episode? Viewing issues, or is it meant to be dark but won't be?

Last time I heard this reasoning about bad TV settings was during the infamous GoT episode that was very dark.

Producers generally don't warn about TV settings preemptively as if to warn, so it makes me a bit concerned.

Stranger Things already face complaints about S5 lately, having viewing issues on the finale would be the cherry on top.

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