remember when beats headphones came out and they were marketed as the way music
was meant to be heard despite their older models having a reputation among
audiophiles for just adding a ton of loose muddy sounding bass well
now there's a movement of foot in tvs that seeks to bring a more realistic
movie experience to your home but that thankfully doesn't involve just
strapping subwoofers to the next display you buy it's called filmmaker mode and
it's being endorsed by big name directors like christopher nolan ryan
johnson and m night shyamalamalamalayan
for better or for worse and this is a big deal because perhaps
counter-intuitively filmmaker mode isn't about adding some feature like a more
advanced panel type or special high dynamic range backlight
instead the general idea here is to prevent certain tv features from
affecting the final image that you end up seeing kind of like addition by
subtraction but how exactly does that work okay so if you go by just about any
new tv these days you will see a plethora of features that ostensibly
make the image look better like motion
smoothing usually with some fancy sounding name noise reduction and
sharpening now with ai however there's a
general consensus in the av community that these image processing features
actually make things look over processed artificial and overall worse than the
original in most cases and even if you're not an av expert you
can sometimes see this for yourself think about how overly smoothed an
actor's skin might look sometimes or how interplated video often looks like the
motion is unnaturally smooth like what you'd see if you watch a soap opera so
the idea behind filmmaker mode is to disable all these built-in
post-processing features and forced the tv to show the original signal as it was
intended to look by the filmmaker and i'm not talking just at the native frame
rate and aspect ratio this setting is
also meant to combat the unrealistic vivid and exaggerated color settings
that tv manufacturers have resorted to to make their set look you know
brighter and more colorful than the one next to it in the display kiosk at a big
box store so it sets the white point at d65 which is a specific color
temperature that's around 6500 kelvin similar to natural daylight and doing
this helps colors look more uniform across different tvs whether the content
is sdr or HDR and because most people
don't bother changing the default picture settings on their tv after they
take it out of the box and hook it up there's also a push to make this
filmmaker mode as easy as possible to enable specifically with a single button
on the remote control currently vizio lg
and panasonic good job guys
are all on board with getting filmmaker mode into their upcoming tvs which
should be hitting the market in 2020 at the latest but hold on a second is this
kind of a tacit admission from the tv manufacturers that their own features
that they've been pushing on us for years kind of suck
well not necessarily
because some forms of post-processing can still be good for content other than
cinematic films motion smoothing for example can help you more easily track
the trajectory of a ball during a sporting event it's just that it's not
the right horse for every course and there's another problem here because
filmmaker mode is going to be a single preset across many different models of
tvs from many different manufacturers it actually may not yield the best results
subjectively to the viewer's eye on every display
while big budget films are edited on professional mastering displays and
while higher end tvs can approximate the same quality and would thus benefit the
most from filmmaker mode content on lower end tvs might still look a bit
better with some of the post-processing features that filmmaker mode cuts out
we encountered this recently in a review of a low-end monitor that we found that
we kind of had to crank the vibrancy up
in order to get it to look good just don't tell james cameron speaking
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