I wrote Samsung off a few years ago. I was at my dad's house and noticed that his Samsung TV would do this strange thing at the end of commercials for movies. A

I wrote Samsung off a few years ago. I was at my dad's house and noticed that his Samsung TV would do this strange thing at the end of commercials for movies. At the end of most movie commercials, there is an all black screen with white text. When this screen would show up, the TV's back-light would suddenly dim and then brighten back up on the when it went away. I went online and found a forum of other folks noticing and complaining about the phenomenon. Apparently, this line of Samsung TVs had an algorithm that would watch for scenes that had a lot of black. Since the TV did a poor job of displaying blacks, it would try to dim the back-lighting so the blacks would look more black and less washed out. In the case of my dad's TV, the cure was worse than the disease. I searched the settings hoping to be able to disable the "feature" to no avail. I eventually found another forum offering up hacked firmware you could install that claimed to disable the feature. Not going to try that on my dad's TV, but I did decide that if these types of shenanigans are in Samsung's repertoire, I would be steering clear. OP article seem to confirm that they're still up to their chicanery which is sad.