Samsung in particular, perhaps more than any other large consumer goods company, has a culture of "fakery" as a core part of their business. It's not one guy,

Samsung in particular, perhaps more than any other large consumer goods company, has a culture of "fakery" as a core part of their business. It's not one guy, some aberration, or an isolated incident. They have never hesitated to use smoke and mirrors to sell their products. If they were horse breeders, then they'd be the type to dye the horse's hair black and put a pepper up its bum to make it more "lively". This is at the forefront of my mind because I was just over at a friend's place, trying to show him a 4K HDR video of a recent trip that I've uploaded to YouTube. On my Sony TV, it looks spectacular, if I must say so myself. I can't take credit, really, it's the camera. It's an expensive DSLR, and it doesn't do any image fakery. I also mixed in some footage from an iPhone using ProRes mode. You can barely tell that that clip was shot with something that fits in my pocket! On his Samsung flagship TV it looks... bad. Garish. Over-sharpened to the point that hair flickers as it moves because of the aliasing artefacts.[1] Colors are blown out to the point that they can't be distinguished, even if they were originally different. The brightness is boosted so high that normal scenes make you squint. Everything has Pop! Glare! Bang! Glitz! ... like a circus lit up at night. It's a clown show. Other brands take pride in their televisions being calibrated to show the creative intent and the subtleties that modern visual artworks can achieve. Samsung cranks everything to 11 so that their TV stands out amongst the competitors' models in the store. The moon thing is the same. They know that the majority of the consumers aren't literate enough in photography to know the futility of photographing a tiny celestial object with a wide angle lens, so they fake it because it keeps phone sales high. At the end of the day, they sell more products as a consequence of these decisions. Customers vote with their wallets, but most voters are dumb. It's as simple as that. [1] It's a slightly older model, which I'm guessing had its sharpening tuned to 24fps movies in an era when most 4K movies were upscaled from 2K, so hair was generally blurry. Now that hobbyists are producing 4K 60fps home videos downscaled from 8K sensors, every hair is sharply defined out of the camera, so the TV overdoes things and the result is trash.