LG, Panasonic, and Vizio introducing 'Filmmaker Mode' that shows movies as they were intended

[midian182]

Something to look forward to: With 4K televisions offering a slew of picture settings and video processing capabilities, watching movie and TV content the way it was intended isn’t always an easy task. That’s where the UHD Alliance comes in. The industry group has announced a Filmmaker Mode, which ensures viewers get a more cinematic experience on their UHD TVs.

The mode will automatically disable any motion smoothing features a TV may have, which is often enabled as a default setting. The much-maligned feature involves the creation of artificial frames that are inserted between real frames to make action scenes look more fluid and counter motion blur. While the effect can look okay on content such as sports, it can ruin 24fps content such as movies, leading to what’s called the soap opera effect. It’s prompted the likes of Tom Cruise and Mission: Impossible - Fallout director Christopher McQuarrie to speak out against motion smoothing.

Additionally, Filmmaker Mode will ensure a TV is showing the correct colors and aspect ratio. “The thing that sets Filmmaker Mode apart is it will be a pure, clean expression of what the movie was meant to look like when it was made,” said Rian Johnson, director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Rather than having to search through a TV’s multiple menus, Filmmaker Mode will be activated either automatically though metadata embedded in content on a disc or stream, or via a single button that enables the feature.

Manufacturers LG, Vizio, and Panasonic have all announced their support for Filmmaker Mode. Vizio says it will arrive in its 2020 televisions, while the others are yet to reveal their plans. It’s possible that we’ll learn more at IFA 2019, which starts next week.

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[Bill A]

This can most definitely be enable via firmware.

Mostly likely 2019 TV models & maybe some 2018 models TV.

 

[Linkinworm]

I feel like this can only work if they factory calibrate the screens, and how much is this going to cost the end user? I wish tv makes at the high end, especially Samsung and lg who are portraying the "best" gaming features to do a factory calibration for xbox and ps consoles. a simple setting such as using auto or native colour space can drastically change colours and its hard to know which one is actually "correct" from a viewing point. sure adjusting to what you think looks best is ok, but what about just a factory "this is how X company says it should look" I had a real hard time calibrating my ps4 because a couple of the settings look really wrong, like the blue tones can be like night and day but I have no reference to what one should be correct.

 

[kira setsu]

So its tv's aimed at stupid, lazy people?

 

[ManuelV]

So its tv's aimed at stupid, lazy people?

What do you mean?

 

[yRaz]

I feel like this can only work if they factory calibrate the screens, and how much is this going to cost the end user? I wish tv makes at the high end, especially Samsung and lg who are portraying the "best" gaming features to do a factory calibration for xbox and ps consoles. a simple setting such as using auto or native colour space can drastically change colours and its hard to know which one is actually "correct" from a viewing point. sure adjusting to what you think looks best is ok, but what about just a factory "this is how X company says it should look" I had a real hard time calibrating my ps4 because a couple of the settings look really wrong, like the blue tones can be like night and day but I have no reference to what one should be correct.

I've calibrated enough displays that I can get close enough just by eye. I've found that gamma, contrast and brightness have much more to do with color accuracy than actual RGB adjustment. Contrast is such a marketing term now that people usually raise it. More often than not, lower the contrast and brightness and raise the gamma.

Also brightness=/=backlight. Or at least it shouldn't if your TV is made and programmed correctly.

 

[brucek]

How is this going to ensure "correct colors"?