HDR+Subtitles: The extreme eye strain & PHYSICAL PAIN suffered by disabled consumers. - Blu-ray Forum

SonSon III · 10-30-2018, 10:40 PM

I’m honestly starting to believe that this is probably isolated to OLED tech and HDR subtitles. Considering that Apple has been invested in OLED as well as offering gray subs leads me more to this conclusion. The problem is, like I said, definitely worse on my calibrated OLED vs my older “first gen HDR” Samsung LED.

Let’s just say that this is an issue to people prone to migraines, and own OLEDs that view HDR content but needs subs. It’s still a huge pool of consumers. The simplest solution is to have subs be either a shade of even light gray or a warm manilla folder color to compensate for the issue. I completely forgot how much worse my OLED subtitles are vs LED. The constant on/off brightness makes me feel terrible and I either have to suck it up (no thx), disable
Subs (not an option for me) or to really dial everything down to the point that it feels like I’m watching and old CRT tube that’s on it’s last legs.

I will ask once again, is this just OLED owners that are experiencing *extreme* discomfort with pure white subtitles on any HDR content, disc or otherwise?

10-30-2018, 10:40 PM	#23
SonSon III Active Member Member since:Apr 2017 4K collection:20 Blu-ray collection:20	I’m honestly starting to believe that this is probably isolated to OLED tech and HDR subtitles. Considering that Apple has been invested in OLED as well as offering gray subs leads me more to this conclusion. The problem is, like I said, definitely worse on my calibrated OLED vs my older “first gen HDR” Samsung LED. Let’s just say that this is an issue to people prone to migraines, and own OLEDs that view HDR content but needs subs. It’s still a huge pool of consumers. The simplest solution is to have subs be either a shade of even light gray or a warm manilla folder color to compensate for the issue. I completely forgot how much worse my OLED subtitles are vs LED. The constant on/off brightness makes me feel terrible and I either have to suck it up (no thx), disable Subs (not an option for me) or to really dial everything down to the point that it feels like I’m watching and old CRT tube that’s on it’s last legs. I will ask once again, is this just OLED owners that are experiencing extreme discomfort with pure white subtitles on any HDR content, disc or otherwise?

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