"Or how failing to account for how some images handle compression led to HBO shipping those unwatchably dark Game of Thrones episodes. I guess directors targeti

"Or how failing to account for how some images handle compression led to HBO shipping those unwatchably dark Game of Thrones episodes. I guess directors targeting streaming nowadays know not to do that?" That blame lies on the service encoders. They should be allocating more bitrate to dark scenes, and gently debanding them, rather than relying on decades-old x264 defaults. But to be fair this wasn't well known back in early GoT days.