Some Netflix is too dark?

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#312213 26-Mar-2024 14:47

Does anyone else have an issue with Netflix being quite dark? I started to watch 3 Body Problem and some of it is unwatchable due to it being so dark. Also, the quality seems a bit low at times, certainly not 4k.

As soon as I switch to say Youtube, all is fine so I don't think its the tv at fault.

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

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#3211218 26-Mar-2024 15:36

You haven't said what device your are watching it on?
Phone, TV, PC?

I've not come across it being a problem, especially when watching Dark.

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#3211219 26-Mar-2024 15:37

HDR content trying to play on a non HDR device, or not triggering HDR playback?...

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#3211220 26-Mar-2024 15:41

I seem to recall I switched my tv picture to "vivid" or some similar non power saving mode to avoid this. I haven't noticed the issue for a while.

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#3211224 26-Mar-2024 15:46

Sorry, it's a tv.

I'm supposed to respect my elders, but it's getting harder and harder for me to find one now.

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#3211248 26-Mar-2024 16:07

peejayw: Sorry, it's a tv.

Inbuilt app or an external player? I had issues on the xbox with something messing up HDR so the TV thought it was HDR but the xbox was already doing something to it before it got to the TV. Had to take the TV out of game mode and also change something that the xbox autodetected to make it not try to HDR on a TV that barely is SDR but claims HDR.

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#3211253 26-Mar-2024 16:16

I have felt a few different streaming services are guilty of this. Instead of filming in darker situations and adding ambient light to be able to see the scene, they film in light and then add filters to make it look dark - which often results in near unwatchable scenes without a completely dark room.

It's incredibly annoying

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#3211256 26-Mar-2024 16:23

I am using a Nvidia Shield thru an hdr tv. Have tried turning off hdr on the shield but no difference.

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#3211544 27-Mar-2024 11:04

Handsomedan:

I have felt a few different streaming services are guilty of this. Instead of filming in darker situations and adding ambient light to be able to see the scene, they film in light and then add filters to make it look dark - which often results in near unwatchable scenes without a completely dark room.

It's incredibly annoying

I've found this watching Fear the walking dead on Prime Video. But I have constant battles with chromecast tv crashing / resetting the color space back to rgb 8bit which seems to make dark scenes terrible!

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#3211565 27-Mar-2024 12:28

I had exactly this problem with my previous TV and HDR 4K content. The only way to fix it was to hard set Netflix via the browser in the list of supported devices for my TV to 1080 rather than 4K. As I couldn’t find a place in the app itself to change the maximum resolution.

Not ideal but worth trying.