One of the novelties that began to reach televisions in 2020 was the so-called “Filmmaker Mode” or “Filmmaker Mode”, a configuration option that promised offer the best image settings in each content based on the original intentions of the creator.
Designed by UHD Alliance With the collaboration of directors such as Martin Scorsese, Ryan Coogler, James Cameron, JJ Abrams, Christopher Nolan, Paul Thomas Anderson, M. Night Shyamalan, Ava DuVernay, Damien Chazelle, Ang Lee and Rian Johnson, among others, it is a present function already on mid and high-end televisions but so far we had to activate manually, like any additional mode of viewing more than TV (cinema, games, sports, etc.).
When we talked about the calibration trends of the future, one was the option that the TV chooses the most suitable image and sound mode depending on the content we are seeing. And this is just what will happen from this week.
LG has announced that its 2020 and 2021 TVs already support the automatic activation of Filmmaker Mode on streaming content initially coming only from Amazon Prime Video.
This is a feature that was already mentioned in its day when the arrival of the Filmmaker Mode was announced and that basically works thanks to an indicator embedded in video content What is it detected by the TV and at that moment activates the corresponding display mode.
Initially this automatic activation will be available in the LG TVs with webOS 5.0 and 6.0, both in the models with 4K and 8K panels with LCD and OLED technologies, in videos with SDR and with HDR10.
The first step towards future calibration
What does this automatic activation of the Filmmaker Mode offer? Well basically it’s about remove all extra processing from the image modify or correct its original appearance, including frame interpolation or motion smoothing, zoom and aspect changes, non-original frame rates, artificial enhancements in sharpness, or colors not set correctly.
Of course, the manufacturer ensures that later, if we do not want to use this mode, we can deactivate it and choose the one we want.
Is it an interesting option for the average user? It depends. This particular mode is usually leave the image a little off, with colors without much force, with the sharpness in low values and of course it turns off the interpolation of frames. If we are looking for a more striking image with saturated colors and a softer movement, then it is not for us.
However, beyond that we like this way of the filmmaker, the interesting thing about the matter is that the ban is opened so that the creators add metadata to your content that allow activating specific calibration options on our televisions. At the moment it will only be Amazon, but it would not be surprising that soon more services will be pointing to this option.
If to this we add the possibility that televisions detect environmental factors using different sensors, such as room lighting, viewing distance and even the user’s position with respect to the TV, the options for the automatic image adjustment (and sound) have a promising future avoiding that we have to be aware of changing modes and parameters manually.
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