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remember when beats headphones came out and they were marketed as the way music

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was meant to be heard despite their older models having a reputation among

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audiophiles for just adding a ton of loose muddy sounding bass well

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now there's a movement of foot in tvs that seeks to bring a more realistic

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movie experience to your home but that thankfully doesn't involve just

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strapping subwoofers to the next display you buy it's called filmmaker mode and

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it's being endorsed by big name directors like christopher nolan ryan

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johnson and m night shyamalamalamalayan

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for better or for worse and this is a big deal because perhaps

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counter-intuitively filmmaker mode isn't about adding some feature like a more

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advanced panel type or special high dynamic range backlight

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instead the general idea here is to prevent certain tv features from

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affecting the final image that you end up seeing kind of like addition by

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subtraction but how exactly does that work okay so if you go by just about any

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new tv these days you will see a plethora of features that ostensibly

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make the image look better like motion

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smoothing usually with some fancy sounding name noise reduction and

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sharpening now with ai however there's a

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general consensus in the av community that these image processing features

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actually make things look over processed artificial and overall worse than the

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original in most cases and even if you're not an av expert you

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can sometimes see this for yourself think about how overly smoothed an

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actor's skin might look sometimes or how interplated video often looks like the

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motion is unnaturally smooth like what you'd see if you watch a soap opera so

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the idea behind filmmaker mode is to disable all these built-in

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post-processing features and forced the tv to show the original signal as it was

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intended to look by the filmmaker and i'm not talking just at the native frame

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rate and aspect ratio this setting is

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also meant to combat the unrealistic vivid and exaggerated color settings

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that tv manufacturers have resorted to to make their set look you know

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brighter and more colorful than the one next to it in the display kiosk at a big

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box store so it sets the white point at d65 which is a specific color

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temperature that's around 6500 kelvin similar to natural daylight and doing

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this helps colors look more uniform across different tvs whether the content

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is sdr or HDR and because most people

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don't bother changing the default picture settings on their tv after they

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take it out of the box and hook it up there's also a push to make this

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filmmaker mode as easy as possible to enable specifically with a single button

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on the remote control currently vizio lg

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and panasonic good job guys

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are all on board with getting filmmaker mode into their upcoming tvs which

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should be hitting the market in 2020 at the latest but hold on a second is this

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kind of a tacit admission from the tv manufacturers that their own features

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that they've been pushing on us for years kind of suck

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well not necessarily

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because some forms of post-processing can still be good for content other than

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cinematic films motion smoothing for example can help you more easily track

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the trajectory of a ball during a sporting event it's just that it's not

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the right horse for every course and there's another problem here because

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filmmaker mode is going to be a single preset across many different models of

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tvs from many different manufacturers it actually may not yield the best results

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subjectively to the viewer's eye on every display

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while big budget films are edited on professional mastering displays and

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while higher end tvs can approximate the same quality and would thus benefit the

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most from filmmaker mode content on lower end tvs might still look a bit

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better with some of the post-processing features that filmmaker mode cuts out

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we encountered this recently in a review of a low-end monitor that we found that

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we kind of had to crank the vibrancy up

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in order to get it to look good just don't tell james cameron speaking

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of things that are poorly kept secrets the mass drop and sennheiser

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balanced mid-range with natural sounding bass and some extra little tweaks based

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on community feedback they come with a 1 8 inch plug for everyday use and a

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quarter inch adapter for professional use and sennheiser backs these

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off these great headphones so thanks for watching guys like dislike check out our

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