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Your TV finds lots of ways to adjust your picture. You might not want any of them.
Motion smoothing, sharpening, brightness, contrast, and saturation are all adjustments that your television makes to your picture. These can differ wildly from what filmmakers intend and, sometimes, that’s a nightmare.
As the above video shows, these adjustments are subtle but significant, especially when viewed alongside the original image. Fortunately, there is a solution — TV manufacturers have begun adopting new modes like “Filmmaker Mode,” which largely remove television tweaks to an image.
Further reading:
You can learn more about what the UHD Alliance is and what it does here.
Filmmakers prefer you turn off TV tweaks, as in this PSA by Dune director Denis…