Black levels frequently messed up on freeview channel4/film4 material

jpaul

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For the last couple of months I seeing somewhat washed out pictures on a lot of channel4 & film4 material - anyone else seeing that. ?
The adverts are fine, just the programmes messed up

I found below thread fairly easily, but has no recent updates, and couldn't find other information on the web.
Channel 4 had some broadcast problems a while back I don't know if it all stems from that.

https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2416125/channel-4-hd-incorrect-black-levels
 
I certainly noticed it in taskmaster, one of the few channel 4 things I watch.

With OLED you get so used to proper blacks, that when you see elevated black levels it's really obvious.
 
Strange...I stumbled upon this thread and was thinking only 3 days ago how the episode of Escape to the Chateau on C4 really stood out as being washed out, like it was over-exposed. I thought that due to covid, they perhaps just had crap camera crews now.
 
I noticed it around the same time as the Red Bee Media issues so presumed it was due to that. Channel 4 does seem to have been the worst affected.
 
Yep, I have been moaning about C4 HD for a while now and yes, Taskmaster is an obvious example. Terrible black levels and a bit washed out.
 
yes - again last night - dipped into Eiger sanction on fourhd best I've ever seen it - great black levels, versus film4(sd) Cruise's American made on Sunday pm which was a wash-out.

I need to try switching film4/c4 mid-show to their online streaming services, and see if they show same issue,
itv4 streaming stuff always looks better PQ than freeview for cycling, which I put down to a better hevc/codec

I'm not sure if I could actually improve freeview by playing with IRE black levels
 
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