Game of Thrones S8E3 on OLED - WTF?

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So yesterday, I watched E3 around my girlfriend's place and we both noticed the picture quality wasn't great. She has a Samsung LED (not Q LED) set and the source was coming from NowTV.

At the time, I just thought it was either her TV or the input that was the issue. For those who are fans of the show and have watched this episode, you'll know it's mainly full or dark scenes and I've read online today that cinematographers from the show recommend watching it in a dark room.

Great I thought, I'll watch it on my series 8 LG OLED in the dark (Sky Atlantic catch up, Sky HD box). No matter what picture mode I set the TV to, there's either large amounts of noise on dark scenes or extremely crushed blacks.

Has anyone else had the same issue? I'm assuming it could be down to the compressed nature of the Sky feed? I'm really disappointed, thought visually this would have been perfect to watch on OLED.
 
I'll have to invest in the UHD boxset if and when that comes out and a player to go with it.

You're in Bromsgrove I see, that's where I grew up! Thanks for your input.
 
At least it wasn't just me then, just wanted to understand if the default picture settings were off as I don't really touch them.

I would even say that this particular episode was an issue, and not just general dark scene content received via satellite as I don't recall noticing the issue to this extent before.

Pretty sure when I looked at this thread this morning there was a stupid post from another member? Looks like it has been deleted either way. :)
 
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