Xperia 1 - Problem with dark scenes when watching a movie

[GT90]

Hi Sony,

I've been watching various different movies on Netflix, Amazon Prime and YouTube and they all have the same problem.

During a very dark scene, it is very hard to see people's faces and other things. This is not a pleasant movie experience! This is most likely due to insufficient nits/brightness!?

Am I being ridiculous here or are other people experiencing similar issues??

[Lukalumen]

I just compared the XZ3 screen with the Xperia 1 in dark scene situations.

The XZ3 has slightly more saturation and vibrancy in darker scenes, but really very slightly and arguably looks less natural because of it. All OLED screens suffer from a bit of black clipping, but on both the XZ3 and X1 it's really minimal.

I have to conclude that if you're seeing very dark faces and details,it's because the creators of the video wanted it to be dark. I blame this new age of HDR nonsense. Brightness and shadows are being pushed beyond what the human eye can perceive and distinguish in the same scene. Us millennials are used to CRT TVs growing up and the content for them was produced in a different way that what they do today. If you watched a series like Sabrina on a 90s TV it wouldn't even be visible unless you heavily compressed the footage.

To conclude, the phone has plenty of brightness,it's the content being produced that is annoying.

[Axcel]

Ive found if you chnage the screen brightness to max and reopen the app, the dark scenes are a litgle better and not just dark, you can makr out shadows.