I've watched several films lately -- recent big releases -- and I've been disappointed with the black levels. I'm watching on a Sony OLED A80J and it's apparent right from the opening title scenes that black levels are more like dark grey (I'd subjectively say around 15 IRE) instead of the true (0 IRE) black of the letterbox bars.
I have my TV set to "Custom" which is supposed to be the most accurate mode and for other content -- non-Kaleidescape, including HDR streaming -- it looks great with nice true black levels. When starting The Batman, when the title screen came up (and also a hallway scene around 2:02 into the film that cuts to pitch black) I paused the movie and dropped the black level setting from 50 down to 43, matching the "black" of the screen image area to the black of the letterbox bars. Definitely made images look far richer. But when I got out of the movie back to the Kaleidescape cover art screen, it was clearly too dark as were other sources. Watching Bond No Time to Die black levels seemed more accurately "black" at around the 47 setting.
I've downloaded all of the available test patterns from the Store, and I'm wondering what you guys use to set Black levels, or if you've noticed a disparity between Kaleidescape HDR "blacks" and other sources, or if maybe my Sony is just seeing something from the Kaleidescape that elevates the levels...? I don't have a Lumagen, and video is currently running through an Altitude 16 which isn't supposed to touch the picture.
Just curious if anyone else has noticed this and what patterns you use for setting black levels... And I'm thinking the TV *should* have different settings for HDR/SDR but maybe it doesn't and I'm seeing some error between these...
Thanks!
I have my TV set to "Custom" which is supposed to be the most accurate mode and for other content -- non-Kaleidescape, including HDR streaming -- it looks great with nice true black levels. When starting The Batman, when the title screen came up (and also a hallway scene around 2:02 into the film that cuts to pitch black) I paused the movie and dropped the black level setting from 50 down to 43, matching the "black" of the screen image area to the black of the letterbox bars. Definitely made images look far richer. But when I got out of the movie back to the Kaleidescape cover art screen, it was clearly too dark as were other sources. Watching Bond No Time to Die black levels seemed more accurately "black" at around the 47 setting.
I've downloaded all of the available test patterns from the Store, and I'm wondering what you guys use to set Black levels, or if you've noticed a disparity between Kaleidescape HDR "blacks" and other sources, or if maybe my Sony is just seeing something from the Kaleidescape that elevates the levels...? I don't have a Lumagen, and video is currently running through an Altitude 16 which isn't supposed to touch the picture.
Just curious if anyone else has noticed this and what patterns you use for setting black levels... And I'm thinking the TV *should* have different settings for HDR/SDR but maybe it doesn't and I'm seeing some error between these...
Thanks!