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Also about the picture quality. HBO claims there were no issues on their streaming ends, but there definitely was tech issues that went beyond the artistic choices.
I had a ton of artifacts and banding in many shots. Having the brightness up helped, but that shouldn’t be happening at all and is almost definitely a product of HBO poorly encoding the episode, or the stream not being able to send all the data to various platforms for the dark bits.
LED screens are also not really great at handling blacks either. It’s one of the big selling points of OLEDs how they can give true blacks, but apparently even on those screens the banding was an issue.
I had a ton of artifacts and banding in many shots. Having the brightness up helped, but that shouldn’t be happening at all and is almost definitely a product of HBO poorly encoding the episode, or the stream not being able to send all the data to various platforms for the dark bits.
LED screens are also not really great at handling blacks either. It’s one of the big selling points of OLEDs how they can give true blacks, but apparently even on those screens the banding was an issue.