Your bad TV and HBO Max’s bad compression are to blame.
last night as characters stole dragons and other characters made super incestuous life choices. And all of it was done under the cover of darkness, leadingBut your TV is not busted. Your TV is a victim of the episode’s director, Miguel Sapochnik.
Editing rooms usually include a perfectly calibrated OLED reference monitor. That reference monitor is capable of handling the incredible range of grays and blacks our eyes can see. Your TV at home can’t handle the same range of grays — nor can your phone or your tablet. But maybe you have a very nice TV. Maybe you were watching it on a perfectly calibrated set in a dark room and still had issues watchingBut increasingly, filmmakers seem to be forgetting that what they’re watching in the editing suite isn’t what we’ll get at homeSee, when Sapochnik and company finished editing this episode of TV and reviewing it, they were likely using a very clean copy with little to no compression.
Oh, and if you’re watching on satellite or cable? The situation could be better — or it could be even worse. Legacy TV is using compression technology that’s way out of date combined with way too many channels you don’t watch.
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