I Really Wanted Sony’s New Mini RGB LED Television to Blow My Mind With Vivid Colors
During a demo reel test, the color quality and contrast weren’t great. Mist over a white mountain didn’t look distinct; grass behind a fence should have looked greener; brown buffalo roaming a field didn’t look varied enough in color. To test contrast, I viewed a scene with dark trees in the foreground, but they blended too much into the background.
Another component of color contrast is that dark colors should look deep and rich, but dark scenes in The Creator and Awake on Netflix both just looked too dull. None of the picture modes helped, including the XR Contrast Booster. In Awake, the main character rides a bike at night, and you can see her face but not the background or a guy in a blue shirt.
The movie Hopperson Disney+ did sell me a bit more on True RGB. (Though, to be fair, the animated movie with vibrant...
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