Does anyone else find modern Tv too dark?

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I know we don't want to go back the 80s where Prisnner Cell Block H apparently had cells with a billion gigacandle lights in them, but really, it's all so dark - I end up noticing my own reflection in the room now.

Yes, me too.

I had to watch the last series of Game of Thrones on my laptop, with the brightness turned up to the max, in order to understand wtf was going on. (My TV is 10 years old and it's stuck on the mid-brightness level). Wolf Hall was ridiculous, I couldn't see a thing.

Yes and voices are muffled and drowned out by background music. It's so annoying.

Audio description is only way I see thing like .

Have you watched Goliath on Prime?
Filmed entirely in the dark and everyone mumbles. DS and I are peering through the gloom and watching with subtitles.

Oh my God! Yes, totally. I hate it. Thought it was just me.

I struggled with Game of Thrones, had to sit on the floor right up at the tv to watch night scenes, missed a lot of what was going on in the battle with the night walkers

I loved Wolf Hall and didn't mind the gloom in that at all, but otherwise yes, I agree. His Dark Materials, far too dark (well, I suppose the clue was in the title) and now A Christmas Carol is on and I can't see a bloody thing for the most part.

I'm watching Christmas Carol on BBC right now. SO DARK.

Can't hear a bloody thing in Christmas Carol

Yes, and it's quiet too!

I love the Handmaids Tale but subtitles are essential as it's dark an mumbly so you can't lip read the characters.

A lot of dark, moody styling puts me off unless it's something I really know I'll love. I want entertainment and uplifting. Most TV is either dark and dingy or trivial trash.

The only colour in this mumbly dark Christmas Carol is the burning fires of hell. Everything else is grey, including Guy Pearce's face.

That War of the Worlds thing, that was also all grey and dark.

More mumbly than dark. Or maybe I’m just gan deaf

We had a Pioneer Tv that was bloody fantastic at dark definition. When that Tv died I wore black, charcoal and both light and dark grey. If it’s funeral was televised and played on our current ( who allegedly were using the same technology) replacement tv I doubt you’d be able to tell. As for the mumbled recordings - why is this not picked up before this stuff is played to the nation should be compulsory to hear/review on a normal tv before transmission.

Yes, it's infuriating.

Most new tv footage is now aired to be suitable for 4k. This makes it pretty shit for standard TVs and HD TVs even when broadcast on the non HD channels.