The consensus here seems to always be leave in SDR and use match content, but I’ve had no issues with leaving Dolby Vision on all the time. SDR content like youtube and TV shows that were never mastered in HDR look 100% fine to me. Part of the Dolby Vision spec is that it forces your TV into it’s most color accurate settings so why wouldn’t I want that as well? Using an LG C2 by the way.
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For the LG owners, which Dolby Vision picture mode do you use? Does this setting make a difference with the other setting combinations?
My CX is set to “Cinema Home”. My ATV has DV on and (the unpopular) Match Content off.
Cinema is the best but too dark for anything but pitch black room viewing in my experience. I prefer Cinema Home with the Dolby Precision Detail setting on which further boosts shadow detail and is intended for “bright room” viewing.
I use Cinema Home for the same reason. Unfortunately, my (old) CX doesn’t have Dolby Precision Detail. I believe LG introduced it with the C2. Fortunately, my apt faces east, so the room isn’t too bright except for a few morning hours. And I use Philips hue lights to control the lighting to enhance the viewing experience like a cinema scene that dims the lights to 15% and changes the color to red.
This is just straight up about colorspace I think. Playing SDR content while forcing the TV into HDR forces the SDR colorsspace which is rec 709 or rec 2020 into HDR which is rec 2020 as well. SDR content for Rec 709 would be forced to artificially spread into rec 2020 but this might be solved by some TVs detecting this? Not sure if they do tho because of the forced HDR.
Whatever works for you. Personally my projector isn’t the best at DV and I also noticed DV is great for one show and awful for another. Not that it was good TV but Shadow and Bone on Netflix for some reason was enough for me to finally just go back to SDR fixed and stop thinking about it. Simpler.
What I’ve learned from many many YouTube videos is that you should select 4k SDR as your main video format and then enable match range options. This is because you don’t need Dolby vision or HDR even for the apple tv menu elements. You’ll only want those when you’re watching something — and it’ll automatically switch your mode to the best possible format provided by the show or movie. So if it’s available on Dolby vision it will show you it in dolby vision and then switch back down when your browsing and so on and so forth.
Don’t listen to all the naysayers. If you like the look of DV on standard SDR content, you can leave it on all the time. It’s your TV and your preferences. I personally leave DV off unless content is in DV, but I also tried DV on all the time and it was OK experience. Unfortunately I found some content did not render properly in DV, so I stopped that practice.
I went back to 4K SDR (had DV on always earlier) because regular TV content, thru Direct TV app on ATV, and non-4K content looked too dark and unreal for my taste. I played with the TV settings but it never quite looked right. I have a Sony OLED.
Haha. Every range of opinions on the subject. It looks great on my LG OLED. It does give black screen briefly switching to commercials in some streaming shows.
I almost find that a feature. I’ve missed so many commercials on YouTube. Cause the screen was still black matching content and frames.
I would especially not leave the ATV set to DV or HDR if using an OLED TV. Forcing a higher peak brightness on content made not to go that bright and on screen savers which are supposed to help preserve your display will ultimately shorten the life of your display. OLED elements degrade with use and they degrade even faster with running them brighter. If you care about longevity of your OLED set then save the DV and HDR brightness for content that is meant to be seen that way.
I think it’s a waste of energy and it’s not great to have your tv on 100% brightness for long periods of time especially when it’s not needed
The consensus
There is no consensus because it depends ENTIRELY on the TV.
On my LG C1 I leave DV on all the time with match content/framerate of course, and the menus and UI look stunning.
On my shittier Vizio LCD TV, I leave it on 4K SDR because DV looks washed out and terrible. But with match content/framerate for content, of course.
There is no single answer. It depends on the TV, and its easy enough to test.
I leave it always neabled. I don’t think there’s any problems? I watch quite a bit of SDR in that mode and I don’t see anything wrong
Match content is a pain on my TV and AVR combo. It always delays for a very long pause which is so annoying. It looks fine and works better on HDR.
It does use more power and may lead to burn in depending on the content you’re watching. Personally I think it looks bad but if you like it it’s your TV do what you want
i leave dolby vision on all the time and haven’t noticed any issues with sdr content. my lg c2 handles it well, and the color accuracy is a plus for me. plus, i don’t really notice a difference in sdr vs hdr wrapper for the content i watch.
I am in the TV industry and both my sound system and LD OLED are calibrated. I watch everything except OTA with my ATV and I am very satisfied leaving Dolby Vision on all the time.