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Old 02-18-2019, 10:48 AM   #712
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Originally Posted by Geoff D View Post
Holy crap the black levels on this are BLACK, the Arnie Effect is in evidence on Claire Foy's mop of dark hair in several scenes. I'm not saying it's "wrong", it's just that it's been so long since I've seen such fully opaque blacks that I thought something had gone wrong with my settings. The theatrical screening I saw certainly didn't look like this, but then modern xenon digital projection is so poor for black levels that it shouldn't be used as any kind of yardstick. And it's not that the TV doesn't do good blacks, it does chuffin' great blacks, but I think I'm getting so used to the trend for greyblack that anything else just looks weird.
Yeah it seems to be older films in DV that give me raised blacks, almost exclusively LG and a few Paramount.
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