It sucks. I have it. Everything is so muted and bland. But what really grinds my nerves is remastering great films. I was watching American Graffiti (a fim I've seen hundreds of times on CRT to LCD), watched it recently and was wondering why it was so dark. It looked great before. Now I can't see the details on faces that were prevalent prior. It really, really sucks they just can't leave shit alone

HDR is in mind. I didn't watch your video. But that is the answer. HDR content is future content, so they create content that would benefit on only OLEDs and high contrast displays that can show HDR. Nice 26 minute video?? Do you just like to talk? Okay bye. You only need like 10 min for monetization.

"... HDTVs and HDRTVs allow for a much darker picture to be visible overall." Wait, the whole point is that the dark picture is NOT visible. We can't see what's going on! Can't make out details. What's so great about digital this or digital that?

also why are all action scenes shot at night nowadays? like I know you got expensive toys and so you suck at picking up the foundation skills needed as filmakers...oh, well I guess that explains it.. I guess filmaking is also a dying skill now...shit!

"Up to 2024" has aged perfectly in the era of LLMs and AI craze of May 2024.

Even with a oled and qled! Dark scenes cant go away really sucks. Hollywood is doing this! To our TVs!

Love the video! I like that we have the capability now to get true cinematic experience at home. But ya, content for a wide variety of tv settings and environments should be focused on.

no tv settings can fix this ussue all tv series movies went standard digital to 1080 P way to dark it s awfull

First they destroyed all attempts at enunciation and clarity, so we had to put the captions on. Now they've made it impossible to see, too. They defend it on artistic grounds but that's pretty masturbatory when you've got people complaining the material is utterly inaccessible to two senses. The only two senses that matter in this case! So why bother watching anything new? The old movies and the old shows--you can see the action and understand the dialogue.

This video hasn’t gotten a comment in 2 years so it’s time to change that! I often revisit this video because I think it helps explain why the visuals effects in Twin Peaks The Return stay with the viewer long after watching it

Years later I find myself rewatching clips of this show to reinspire me to study more!

Yeah, and they will continue to get obligatoray 1 star reviews from me. The rest of the media stops mattering if I can't see anything on screen. Like Goosebumps, the lit stadium was super under lit, and then it kicked over to a hospital that looked like a closet, and the school that somehow wasn't using any interior lighting. Dunno what stadiums, hospitals, or schools these people went to, but all of these things are heavily lit in real life.

The electric was out all day, I couldn't watch a downloaded movie on my phone cuz I couldn't see anything. Outlines only.

HCF ep 1 is still the best media portrayal of reverse engineering.

I'm going to say that this is one of the rare shows that got better every season up to and including its final season. One of my favourite shows ever.

Time for a Godzilla Minus One video

You forgot something though: The experience. There is a difference between watching a bunch of movies you own/stream them and watching them live, with the bumpers adding so much personality. These were events, ya know?

season 1 was the best season. joe in his element at its best. the drama wasnt crazy apparent yet. focused on the tech more than other seasons. great series

But that's not cinematic!! Cinema was never so dark! And even when it was, even when 99,5% of the screen was pitch black you always had highlights or rim lights so you know what you're looking at, even when watching in a bright environment. There was CONTRAST. And i get it, i know about the technology, the trends, the social and psycological nuances of our time, but still those things don't justify the absurd levels of darkness of almost every show and many movies. I may be willing to change my tv settings and block the light from the windows once in a while, for a specific movie, but they want me to be in a dark environment every time i watch tv?

i have to watch movies in standard picture mode so i can at least see the movie!

Wow great video. Lot of great insight and knowledge. I'm a director and I'm trying to understand more about colour and colour grading, so this is perfect. I didn't remember why I was subscribed to this channel, and I think you used to have a series about remakes, right? Saw it posted quite a few times in certain imageboard.

If I wanted to NOT see underlit TV or movies, I'd listen to the radio or read a book, instead.

Part of it is that darkness hides lazy work better. The viewer's imagination has to fill in the blanks that the creators can't be bothered to show. It's the cinematic equivalent of "Oh, just ship it as is. Modders can fix that problem in the game for us." Peter Jackson filmed the battle of Helms Deep over four months of night shoots, and you can still see exactly what is happening at any time. By contrast Fabien Wagner used darkness as a crutch.

Just because the technology allows you to do something that doesn't mean you should or it even looks good. Same as the saying just because you can do something it doesn't mean you should. I think one of the best looking remasters I've seen was the 1993 Stalingrad film, the 4K version looks fantastic to me with very white snow in some scenes that is almost blinding which is kind of the point and then the fires look fanstic, they look so warm in snow.

Speaking of creative choices… Your purple Johnny Bravo hair is extremely attention grabbing, and seems to be designed to shine the light back into the camera. Is this some meta level statement?

Interesting video, but your hair is ridiculous.

The hair though.

t fek is with ur hair m8

It's not just the darkness that's gotten annoying, but also the poor attempts using color to set the mood of the scene. You don't have to change the whitebalance until the entire scene is blue just to show sadness or tragedy just like you don't have to make the scene hotter than the surface of the Sun when things are calm or jovial.

It's because cheap tvs don't get bright enough for hdr. They only have hdr to check a box on its features page.

I watched that GoT episode on my IPS laptop in a semi dark room, and while I thought it was dark I didn't have that big of an issue with it apart from the compression that made it a bit harder to see. I mean it was supposed to be dark and you saw enough. Sure they could have pulled up those highlights while keeping the midtones and shadows to get a bit more readable contrast. The HoD episode though just looked really bad. I mean it was just bad grading that combined with the bad compression mad it look even worse. Don't know how good the comparison with Army of Darkness is though, I mean it's pretty badly lit with lots of hard unnatural shadows all over the place, most probably because of what you explained with how bad film is with darkness (no pun intended). This is something that have been a problem with sooo many older series and films with so extremely unnatural lighting. Though having that said many modern movies also have quite unnatural lighting, but instead it's just that they want it to look as "cinematic" as possible so they overdo it. Then add to the problem with badly integrated CG which makes everything look really unnatural in other ways. If only every cinematographer would be Roger Deakins.. Btw, I think Ted Lasso is a good example of something modern that is quite dark. It's of course a pretty light hearted show so it's not supposed to be dark in a dark sense, it's just graded dark that together with the HDR at least to me and my OLED made it look really good. Don't know what other people thought about it though, but I haven't really seen any criticism of it so I guess it was fine? Good walkthrough though, you had some good points :)

Okay, so digital easily blows out. Wouldn't that basically be solved with ND filters?

I can’t stand day for night scenes!!! Or even worst inside car scenes shoot blue screen…so terrible! Go outside with actors!

Folks say Alien vs predator requiem features predalien vs predator action. Wouldve been great if anyone could see it though

Great video. But that weird purple fur hat on your head was distracting.

The worst TV show in computer history. In the first episode they try to desolder a socketed chip, and try to read the IBM BIOS Rom with 16 bit led lights. An 8 bit ROM that is famously mapped at address FC00:0, and can dumped to disk in 2 seconds by anybody using the PC.

The character arcs went beyond what I ever expected. I was looking for a show after Mad Men and ended up finding a show with way more soul than I anticipated.

This show is One of my favourite series of all time, I loved every season of it, and it deserves a lot more recongition than it currently has

This became my most favorite series ever, and the only one I gave an S rating. It's a shame it wasn't released on DVD.

You say Season 1 was the weakest season, I say it was the best.

Nice presentation. Yeah - this series really grabbed me - watched it twice when Netflix had it. For me it's probably one of the best series ever. Didn't writers from the Sopranos also write for Mad Men, and Halt, and Catch Fire ?

S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y S C O O T M C N A I R Y

Halt And Catch Fire low-key changed my life.

Hands down my fav show in years!!!

For reference, the Prehistoric Planet spent months (MONTHS!) working on the Tyrannosaurus face alone. Not the teeth, not the shape of the skull, not the jaw nor eye movements, nope. The face. They wanted to get the most accurate face ever: where does the skin meet the fat which then meets the flesh and bone below, how much soft tissue above the eye, lips or no lips, etc. That should tell you an idea of how deep these dino-nerds and animators went to get the most scientifically grounded animals, actions and environments. There's speculation for sure, there always is. But nothing was solved with a flip of a coin or the rule of cool. Since you humbly said that you were not very informed about the scientific side, I just wanted to add that to the context of this show :)

I think when you said flying dinosaurs, you meant pterosaurs, because there are flying dinosaurs... we just call them birds, and people often mistake pterosaurs as dinosaurs.

Shudder is amazing!

Its perfect

looks like crap to me

You said flying dinosaurs… the only flying dinosaur are birds. Pterosaurs aren’t dinosaurs.