Video player's dynamic color range is off

[j3ff1986]

The D3's video player's dynamic color range seems to be 15-235 rather than 0-255; anyone else notice this? It basically makes blacks look gray, even though the OLED screen can turn black pixels off. Here's a comparison I made between the S9 & D3 playing the S9's stock video (D3 is stock 3.33 and both are on max brightness):

[viblog]

Yeah, me too, on all the formats I've tried.

[scally2112]

This might be the reason why my D3 colors look a bit washed-out compared to the J3? The J3 for me is much more vivid.

[viblog]

Originally Posted by scally2112

This might be the reason why my D3 colors look a bit washed-out compared to the J3? The J3 for me is much more vivid.

If you mean while playing videos, yes. This is only within the video app.

[j3ff1986]

Originally Posted by scally2112

This might be the reason why my D3 colors look a bit washed-out compared to the J3? The J3 for me is much more vivid.

Yes, it limits reds/greens/blues which makes up every color. AMD and Nvidia video cards have the same setting in their drivers that sometimes gets set incorrectly.

[dfkt]

This is extremely annoying, and a reason why I still watch videos on my J3 instead. Did anyone find a fix for that washed out contrast ratio bug in the meantime?

[Olley]

I'd bet they added a backlight behind this OLED display Might have been to make it show up better when outside. Never seen an OLED that didn't look great except the D3's.

[dfkt]

It does show true blacks in other screens, though (or at least it seemed to me that way on a cursory glance) - it seems the contrast issue is only related to video playback.

[Olley]

Any difference with alternative video players?

[j3ff1986]

Originally Posted by Olley

Any difference with alternative video players?

I tried rockplayer and the black levels were perfect; however it was very jerky due to software decoding and the relatively slow cpu. There's definitely not a backlight. Kind of depressing that this hasn't been fixed yet

[dfkt]

The contrast issue is definitely related to video hardware decoding. Players that support both, hardware- and software decoding, like Rockplayer, IMPlayer+, Soul Movie, etc look fine (but play choppy of course) in software decoding mode, but in hardware decoding mode the contrast goes bad.