On Wed, May 1, 2019 at 7:07 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > I have read about the compression issues. Two things about that: 1) I > watched on my TV, streaming HBOGO via my FireTV. Not sure if that is better > or worse than other options. >
Streaming is *probably* worse than broadcast, although it really depends what bitrate your local provider uses. All HD is not equal. A BluRay disc can deliver video at up to 40 Mbps, whereas a streaming service might top out at 7 Mbps, but will almost certainly be lower. That said, HBO via Amazon Prime is said to be one of the better streaming options from what I read. Dark images are just hard to encode - especially live. If you have source material to encode in a non-linear environment, you can spend more time encoding the picture to deliver better quality. So watching on-demand might be better than watching live through the same delivery system. And the speed available at the time you're watching matters too. I've read that Netflix encodes their shows in 50 different formats to provide the best version it can to a subscriber dependent on bandwidth available. You can do that if you have the show in advance. You can't if you're working live. 2) while I don’t expect producers to make tv optimized for streaming on an > IPhone, I do think they should deliver a product that can be enjoyed by a > standard user. If a significant percentage of viewers could not see what > they are supposed to be seeing, that is a production fail, and it is > unseemly for the cinematographer to blame unsophisticated viewers. > > For me the picture was dark, but not impossible to see. I don't have the brightness cranked up to shop-floor levels (TVs in stores are put into a ridiculously super-bright mode to make you pick them). I tend to use a "movie" mode for my viewing, although I did spend a lot of time tweaking it to my tastes. Turning off all that awful motion smoothing stuff that nearly every manufacturer leaves on by default. I also turn off digital noise reduction which can lead to some awful smoothing/smeariness in the image. Personally I don't like all those adaptive settings much either. They mess around with the blacks on your screen depending on how bright the rest of the image is. Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
