Calling all Recreation of Thrones followers watching Home of The Dragon on HBO: Your TV would possibly profit from a tune-up. The massively anticipated prequel collection is streaming now in wonderful 4K HDR, with the second episode out there beginning tonight. The primary episode, The Heirs of the Dragon, was visually gorgeous, and you could have discovered it darkish in extra methods than one.

Home of the Dragon cinematographer Fabien Wagner additionally directed quite a few GoT episodes — together with the infamously darkish third episode of season 8, The Lengthy Evening
, aka The Battle of Winterfell. When viewers complained
 that they could not observe the motion as a result of the episode appeared too darkish, Wagner blamed the TVs.

“Plenty of the issue is that lots of people do not know how you can tune their TVs correctly,” Wagner stated in a 2019 interview defending the lighting of the episode. 

Quick-forward to Could of this 12 months, when Wagner posted a Home of the Dragon trailer to his Instagram with the caption “…and it isn’t too darkish!!!!!! Even once you watch it in your iPhone in broad daylight 😳🤘.”

Wagner could also be (ahem) throwing shade, however both means I am keen to wager that some viewers will discover components of Home of the Dragon too murky on their TVs. As CNET’s TV reviewer I’ve watched my share of darkish — er, “cinematic” — scenes and I can let you know he is proper about one factor: An improperly adjusted TV can break the expertise.

To assist stop that from taking place to you as you take pleasure in Episode 2, take a look at my ideas beneath, which have been up to date from however similar to my unique recommendation.

Flip off the lights

Like just about something on an enormous display screen, Home of the Dragon seems finest when the room is darkish and stuffed with characters. 

Turning off the lighting in your room is likely one of the finest methods to enhance the image. Any mild reflecting off the display screen could make darkish scenes tougher to see and even wash out vivid scenes. Attempt to watch at night time, or a minimum of draw the curtains, and switch off as many lights as you may. Should you will need to have some mild within the room, it ought to ideally be able behind the TV so it would not hit the display screen straight, and turned down as dim as doable. Bias lighting is your good friend.

Learn extra: Get Rid of Annoying TV Glare With These 5 Methods

Select the Film, Cinema or Calibrated image mode

All TVs have image modes that have an effect on practically each facet of the picture: brightness, shade, gamma, black stage and picture processing, amongst different issues.

Sound complicated? Calm down, you do not essentially have to regulate any of that stuff individually to get peak image high quality. Essentially the most correct image mode on any TV is sort of at all times the one known as Cinema (on LG), Customized (Sony), Film (Samsung, TCL) or Calibrated Darkish (Vizio). Merely selecting it can get your TV many of the means towards wanting its finest in a darkish room. In case your TV has a Filmmaker mode, that is an incredible alternative, too.

In comparison with modes akin to Normal or Vivid, Film modes can initially look duller and fewer impactful at first. However in virtually each case, they’re going to present probably the most real looking shade and be tuned for dim rooms — which typically means decrease mild output, strong distinction and proper shadow element. Film mode is not for everybody, so be happy to cycle by way of the opposite modes, too. A few of the finest TVs have brighter modes which are nonetheless correct.

Flip off the cleaning soap opera impact

On many TVs, Film modes will maintain one of many least cinematic results intact: the cleaning soap opera impact, which introduces smoothing that makes movement look buttery and fewer filmlike. You will wish to flip it off to protect the 24-frame cadence of Home of the Dragon (and plenty of different stuff). Should you do not imagine me, take Tom Cruise’s phrase for it. 

Not each TV has the video processing that causes the cleaning soap opera impact, so if yours would not, you are within the clear. However most higher-end fashions do, as do loads of fashionable midrange TVs just like the TCL 6-Collection. And sadly, every producer buries it deep within the TV settings menu and calls it one thing totally different. LG calls it “TruMotion,” Samsung “Auto Movement Plus” or “Image Readability,” TCL “Motion smoothing,” Sony “MotionFlow” and Vizio “Movement Management.” This is how you can discover it and switch it off.

Different settings to strive

Feeling adventurous? Your TV has myriad different settings to mess around with, and lots of have esoteric names and capabilities. Adjusting any of these settings could or could not enhance the picture to your eye, and adjusting them utilizing one scene for reference may make different scenes look worse.

Fortunately, each image mode has a “reset” operate you should utilize should you go too far and mess one thing up. This is a couple of settings and what they do.

Backlight: This adjusts your LCD TV’s mild output. For darkish rooms you may typically need it low, as a result of having it too excessive can wash out the picture. Notice that some TVs name the backlight setting “Brightness” or, on OLED TVs, “OLED Mild.”

Brightness: This adjusts the brightness of “black” and shadow element. Rising it could make darkish areas just like the backgrounds in The Battle of Winterfell extra seen, however going too excessive can, once more, wash out the picture.

Distinction: This controls vivid particulars, and setting it too excessive can render them invisible. It is normally finest to depart it alone.

Shade and Tint: Two extra that, a minimum of in Film modes, are normally finest left alone. If something you would possibly wish to transfer shade a hair up or down if the picture would not look saturated sufficient (or too saturated), however doing so in a single scene can break one other.

Gamma: There’s normally a few settings right here, all of which have an effect on how darkish areas look. We advocate beginning with 2.2.

Native dimming: In case you have an LCD TV with this characteristic (normally known as one thing annoying like “Xtreme Black Engine Plus” or “Native distinction”) you may need it turned on to extend distinction and enhance black ranges. In most TVs I’ve reviewed, the bottom native dimming setting seems finest, however be happy to cycle by way of the choices.

What about compression artifacts?

Lots of the complaints round Recreation of Thrones talked about bands alongside the perimeters of sunshine as the military of the lifeless advances, massive blocks of darker shade because the Dothraki horde recedes into the night time and different points. These similar points would possibly crop up throughout Home of the Dragon, too.

Sadly these points normally aren’t the TV’s fault, in order that they’re tougher to right. Most are brought on by video compression, the know-how used to ship video streams to your TV, and infrequently there’s nothing you are able to do. No less than not till the Blu-ray comes out. You continue to have a Blu-ray participant, proper?

In some instances you may regulate out these points by making scenes darker, by decreasing the brightness management, for instance. The noise-reduction controls in your TV would possibly assist a bit of. 

The problem is perhaps your streaming bandwidth. Strive reconnecting the gadget’s Wi-Fi or connecting to your router by wire if doable. The bandwidth coming into your private home is perhaps an issue too. Should you can wait a bit, strive watching later, when fewer viewers can be streaming in your neighborhood or nationwide. This is some extra ideas for bettering streaming.

It doesn’t matter what TV you could have, a couple of tweaks can normally make the picture a bit of higher, whether or not you are watching Home of the Dragon, Recreation of Thrones or another cinematic TV present or film.

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