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I've watched Silo season 2 and it is basically impossible to watch it during the day. Only at night, with brightness cranked up to 100%.

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Game of Thrones S8E3.

Could barely tell what was going on, everything was so dark, and black crush killed it completely, making it look blocky and janky.

I watched it again a few years later, on max brightness, sitting in the dark, and I got more of what was going on, but it still looked terrible. One day I'll watch the 'UHD' 4k HDR version and maybe I'll be able to see what it was supposed to look like.

Or all of terminal list. That show is so extremely dark that it might as well just be voices over a screen saver.

Problem is, you’ll have to find a high bitrate version. Whatever they streamed on HBO the day of release was really shitty bitrate which crushes detail in detail-starved scenes like these

I tried a load of different versions including blu-ray rips IIRC, and it was all just as bad.

When I last rewatched it (early pandemic), as far as I could tell at the time there was no HDR version available, which I assume would fix it by being able to represent more variation in the darker colours.

I might hunt one down at some point as it does exist now. Though it still wouldn’t make season 8 ‘good’ !!

My LG oled will go darker by itself during prolonged dark scenes, its not noticeable (other than that you can't see anything and you're not sure if its correct or not) until you get to a slightly brighter scene, can get it to stop for a bit by opening a menu.

I turned off HDR. Much happier now that I can see what's going on on the screen.

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