How your TV settings ruin movies

Your TV is ruining your TV. Make it stop. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: Your TV finds lots of ways to adjust your picture. You might not want any of them. Motion smoothing, sharpening, brightness, contrast, and saturation are all adjustments that your television makes to your picture. These can differ wildly from what filmmakers intend and, sometimes, that’s a nightmare. As the above video shows, these adjustments are subtle but significant, especially when viewed alongside the original image. Fortunately, there is a solution — TV manufacturers have begun adopting new modes like “Filmmaker Mode,” which largely remove television tweaks to an image. Further reading: You can learn more about what the UHD Alliance is and what it does here. Filmmakers prefer you turn off TV tweaks, as in this PSA by Dune director Denis Villeneuve. Once the 4K TV revolution began, cinematographer and director Reed Morano led the charge against TV tweaks using this petition on . Make sure you never miss behind-the-scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what’s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out Support Vox’s reporting with a one-time or recurring contribution: Shop the Vox merch store: Watch our full video catalog: Follow Vox on Facebook: Follow Vox on Twitter: Follow Vox on TikTok: @voxdotcom