Has anyone noticed that online media is going "dark"?
I have started to notice it more and more now that shadows are falling well below the black level of the monitor.
I used to fix this in Chrome with a video filter plug-in to lift the gamma on any videos. Chrome have now banned all such content altering plugins, probably because they violate some digital media rights or licensing rules.
Some times it's completely ridiculous, to the point where I can nearly double the gamma and still see more details in the shadows increasing it more.
Surely this comes down to many things. Digital content allows a higher dynamic range than video could, so producers are exploiting it. They do the same for sound these days too. Having to turn the TV up to hear muffled dialogue and then having pictures fall off the neighbours wall when it cuts straight to a jet fighter dropping bombs. They are doing the same with the dynamic range on the videos now and... it's a LOT more annoying having to turn the brightness up, especially as most TVs don't have "gamma" correction, only brightness.
I believe this comes down to your monitor and video card. How you set them up, their black level, etc. But very few online content providers provide you a way to change the video playback settings to more suit your display settings.
Interesting and why this is even a problem. The desktop colours are fine. It's just the video playback that needs adjusted. So pulling up the master gamma on the video card, would... blowout the highlights on the desktop.
I have started to notice it more and more now that shadows are falling well below the black level of the monitor.
I used to fix this in Chrome with a video filter plug-in to lift the gamma on any videos. Chrome have now banned all such content altering plugins, probably because they violate some digital media rights or licensing rules.
Some times it's completely ridiculous, to the point where I can nearly double the gamma and still see more details in the shadows increasing it more.
Surely this comes down to many things. Digital content allows a higher dynamic range than video could, so producers are exploiting it. They do the same for sound these days too. Having to turn the TV up to hear muffled dialogue and then having pictures fall off the neighbours wall when it cuts straight to a jet fighter dropping bombs. They are doing the same with the dynamic range on the videos now and... it's a LOT more annoying having to turn the brightness up, especially as most TVs don't have "gamma" correction, only brightness.
I believe this comes down to your monitor and video card. How you set them up, their black level, etc. But very few online content providers provide you a way to change the video playback settings to more suit your display settings.
Interesting and why this is even a problem. The desktop colours are fine. It's just the video playback that needs adjusted. So pulling up the master gamma on the video card, would... blowout the highlights on the desktop.
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