House of the Dragon: Season 1 4K UHD (2022)

[unberechenbar]

Originally Posted by lgans316

It's a creative decision although it is stupid.

I am sure that 1 nit scene will magically look bright on disc.

Didn't the Battle of Winterfell look better on disc? Or was that a different issue from this scene?

[Jonathan McLeod]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Didn't the Battle of Winterfell look better on disc? Or was that a different issue from this scene?

No idea what the issue is with HOTD as I haven't seen any of it, waiting to pick up the 4K set. With the Season 8 episode of Game of Thrones, the major problem was with banding on streaming and TV broadcast versions. The physical release looks way better, even the DVD, in that regard.

[krismate]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Didn't the Battle of Winterfell look better on disc? Or was that a different issue from this scene?

I think a lot of people suffered from compression artifacts during that episode (I know I did), making things harder to properly see. This would've been before today's higher bitrate 4K/HDR streams. Disc definitely would've cleaned up the image with a much higher bitrate.

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by unberechenbar

Didn't the Battle of Winterfell look better on disc? Or was that a different issue from this scene?

It looks spectacular on UHD with DolbyVision, and I'm sure this will look better.

That said, the difference is - Battle of Winterfell was painstakingly shot for months on end at night and the lighting decisions truly were creative choices - for better or worse. (Again, in hindsight, it looks spectacular on UHD in DV, but considering that the vast majority of consumers watched it without, and streaming quality no less, one could argue either way if it was a good idea or not).

The House of the Dragon scenes, on the other hand, were shot day for night (we know this as there are stills of them shooting it in broad daylight) and it just looks like...a poor day for night conversion.

Like other effects in this show, it was better done on GoT, which I find surprising - because that's the one thing I figured we could count on being equal. From boat scenes, to exterior establishing shots - they just don't seem to be putting the effort in that GoT did to make the effects convincing, and HoD so far really just looks like "every other fantasy show" to me.