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darkblueme · 09-07-2021, 08:49 PM

In February 2020, I upgraded my home theater from a brilliant 4K SONY 75" TV display to a gray 120" movie screen. There is no doubt in my mind, I made the right call.

However, I noticed something over the weekend that is a serious game changer. With all of the TVs I've owned, it's easy to say that I've enjoyed the screens nice and bright in the past, so much so that when I tried to replicate the same image on 120" screen, the brightness started hurting my eyes. So, after some tweaking with the light output as well as the brightness meter on the projector settings, I've finally found a decent balance.

By only slightly dimming the brightness, the gray screen wonderfully enveloped all of the dark images in the picture and created this crazy surreal depth and flow to the black colors. It's like I bought the screen specifically for this purpose yet I didn't have my settings crafted for it. It's wonderful and I just thought I'd make a quick post about it in case anybody else hasn't discovered this yet.

I popped in the 4k disc of John Carpenter's Christine and found myself almost hypnotized while watching Arnie bring back his date from the drive-in. His black jacket had dimensions and texture!! The lighting from the window on one side of his face made the scene much darker in mood as well as on screen. And his hair. So black and rock 'n roll. Even though it was darker, the colors popped in HDR splendor and I noticed the red from Christine parked in the driveway was more impressive in the darker settings.

I even did a quick test and changed the settings back to where I had them before and watched the scene again. Everything was well-lit and I could see more details with the brighter setting but it washed away the depth of the scene. Arnie's jacket no longer looked textured and Christine's red wasn't popping while she sat there in the driveway. So I changed the settings back to just a little darker.

Even though it's taken me 7 months to figure it out, I'm glad I did.

09-07-2021, 08:49 PM	#1
darkblueme Expert Member Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Salt Lake City, Utah 4K collection:6 Blu-ray collection:78	From a bright SONY 4k screen to a darker projector screen In February 2020, I upgraded my home theater from a brilliant 4K SONY 75" TV display to a gray 120" movie screen. There is no doubt in my mind, I made the right call. However, I noticed something over the weekend that is a serious game changer. With all of the TVs I've owned, it's easy to say that I've enjoyed the screens nice and bright in the past, so much so that when I tried to replicate the same image on 120" screen, the brightness started hurting my eyes. So, after some tweaking with the light output as well as the brightness meter on the projector settings, I've finally found a decent balance. By only slightly dimming the brightness, the gray screen wonderfully enveloped all of the dark images in the picture and created this crazy surreal depth and flow to the black colors. It's like I bought the screen specifically for this purpose yet I didn't have my settings crafted for it. It's wonderful and I just thought I'd make a quick post about it in case anybody else hasn't discovered this yet. I popped in the 4k disc of John Carpenter's Christine and found myself almost hypnotized while watching Arnie bring back his date from the drive-in. His black jacket had dimensions and texture!! The lighting from the window on one side of his face made the scene much darker in mood as well as on screen. And his hair. So black and rock 'n roll. Even though it was darker, the colors popped in HDR splendor and I noticed the red from Christine parked in the driveway was more impressive in the darker settings. I even did a quick test and changed the settings back to where I had them before and watched the scene again. Everything was well-lit and I could see more details with the brighter setting but it washed away the depth of the scene. Arnie's jacket no longer looked textured and Christine's red wasn't popping while she sat there in the driveway. So I changed the settings back to just a little darker. Even though it's taken me 7 months to figure it out, I'm glad I did.

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