Post ATUYen0AVBOnUl95No by atmanrising@mastodon.gamedev.place
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(DIR) Post #ATUWGAxQ6AP2e0zmsK by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-03-11T01:56:10Z
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Star Trek Picard Season Three is so drastically underlit -- just a sea of darkness including inside all the ships -- that it makes "Eraserhead" look uber-bright by comparison.
(DIR) Post #ATUWRwGmX638ZAf2lU by atmanrising@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-11T01:58:16Z
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@lauren There's a problem in the HDR version. Watch it on Prime (if you can), and you'll see that the actual show is totally fine. Paramount+ app is broken.
(DIR) Post #ATUYC79wTelDcC2mlk by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-03-11T02:17:50Z
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@atmanrising I don't do Amazon.
(DIR) Post #ATUYen0AVBOnUl95No by atmanrising@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-11T02:23:00Z
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@lauren Oh, OK. You'd have to switch to a SDR stream within Paramount+ then ...
(DIR) Post #ATUaJpCRKoqw8g15O4 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-03-11T02:41:39Z
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@atmanrising I just looked on another device without HDR, both P+ and YT versions. Just as bad. No discernible difference.
(DIR) Post #ATUbDXetjrvHx9taHQ by atmanrising@mastodon.gamedev.place
2023-03-11T02:51:41Z
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@lauren Yeah, there was a big difference for me. Weird!
(DIR) Post #ATUkSLOWWAcdqdMyKu by PJ_Evans@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T04:35:13Z
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@lauren They live in a period when no one can afford light bulbs that are more than 15 watts?
(DIR) Post #ATUlTpmj72gWLUxsW0 by lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org
2023-03-11T04:46:42Z
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@PJ_Evans As I said sometime back, in the Star Trek future, there's no money, and no light bulbs, because they don't have the money to buy light bulbs.
(DIR) Post #ATYgbwK0yCiDnWQ7ZQ by EricCarroll@toad.social
2023-03-13T02:10:58Z
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@laurenReally the UX team for Starfleet needs a stern talking to. One minute it's kleig lights everywhere in crazy locations all aimed into your eyes, next minute it's like its a chemical photography darkroom. Doesn't the 24th century have usability guidelines and ship UX design standards?
(DIR) Post #ATcOelHhRSTVtNNCNc by jmorris@mastodon.social
2023-03-14T21:08:37Z
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@lauren And yet on old low-budget shows like the original run of Doctor Who the sets were brightly lit and you could see the wobbly walls, bubble-wrapped alien grubs and strings holding up spaceships. Seems counter-intuitive to me. Is the sound okay? Making the dialog hard to hear seems to go along with dim lighting.