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What part of “seems like a problem for the producers of bad screens to solve” makes it seem like this is blaming the people who buy the screens and not the peop

What part of “seems like a problem for the producers of bad screens to solve” makes it seem like this is blaming the people who buy the screens and not the people that make the screens. Don’t make the art worse, hold the manufacturers accountable for selling terrible products.

dmitriid 4y ago
Art is worse though. From intangible sludge https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d... to modern DPs and directors not being able to film a dark scene competently https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1564633641828884483 https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1564633641828884483
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  James Stephanie Sterling did a video a long time ago (which I currently cannot find) about "the best game for your HD TV" and concluded (IIRC) that it was Viva Pinata because of the ludicrous colourfulness of the game which really showed off the power of HD TVs. Contrasted with the "intangible sludge" of the Dooms, Quakes, etc.
  - dmitriid 4y ago
    Now I have the urge to play that and Guacamele will n myy brand new OLED :)
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
  > colors, what happened to them? Did movies and TV copy video games' Real Is Brown trope?
  - ConceptJunkie 4y ago
    Color is going away from too many things. Also cars... and for some reason, Taco Bells.
watwut 4y ago
The screens and sound setups are fine. The movies are bad products here.
- deleted 4y ago
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tsimionescu 4y ago
> Don’t make the art worse, hold the manufacturers accountable for selling terrible products. A big part of this is the viewing conditions. The best screen in the world will not make a dark scene watchable in a bright sunny room. And lots of people watch TV in bright sunny rooms. Also, better screens = more money. A lot of the time, people just bought a cheap screen, and they would still like to know what happens in the series or movies they watch. I am absolutely for quality interesting dark scenes in cinema, where both the screen and viewing conditions are normalized. But TV is not the same (and HBO and Netflix are TV).

dmitriid 4y ago

Art is worse though. From intangible sludge https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-digital-color-sludge https://www.vox.com/culture/22840526/colors-movies-tv-gray-d... to modern DPs and directors not being able to film a dark scene competently https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1564633641828884483 https://twitter.com/nikitonsky/status/1564633641828884483

zimpenfish 4y ago
James Stephanie Sterling did a video a long time ago (which I currently cannot find) about "the best game for your HD TV" and concluded (IIRC) that it was Viva Pinata because of the ludicrous colourfulness of the game which really showed off the power of HD TVs. Contrasted with the "intangible sludge" of the Dooms, Quakes, etc.
- dmitriid 4y ago
  Now I have the urge to play that and Guacamele will n myy brand new OLED :)
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y ago
> colors, what happened to them? Did movies and TV copy video games' Real Is Brown trope?
- ConceptJunkie 4y ago
  Color is going away from too many things. Also cars... and for some reason, Taco Bells.

watwut 4y ago

The screens and sound setups are fine. The movies are bad products here.

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tsimionescu 4y ago

> Don’t make the art worse, hold the manufacturers accountable for selling terrible products. A big part of this is the viewing conditions. The best screen in the world will not make a dark scene watchable in a bright sunny room. And lots of people watch TV in bright sunny rooms. Also, better screens = more money. A lot of the time, people just bought a cheap screen, and they would still like to know what happens in the series or movies they watch. I am absolutely for quality interesting dark scenes in cinema, where both the screen and viewing conditions are normalized. But TV is not the same (and HBO and Netflix are TV).