Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
by drcongo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:20PM
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I gave up watching Ozark because I couldn't see a damn thing that was happening, and that has no CGI at all. Sometimes it really is just a (bad) stylistic choice.
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Re:Movie dialogue has gotten more difficult to understand
by yurishimo on Thursday December 02, 2021 @01:19PM
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I think it's probably more related to the move to HDR content. Modern movies/tv are shot and edited with HDR in mind. HDR usually has much more granular control over the brightness within a scene, not just that one part can get super bright.
That's great for people with TV's capable of that type of playback, but for everyone else, tough luck unless you have a blacked-out home theatre room to watch all you casual TV in.
I saw a great example of this in a recent LTT video[0] of a cheap "HDR" TV. The shadows all blended together and the highlights just looked like a flat white instead of a very lightly shadowed sparkle.