Yeah, I'm not buying it. I get that it may have been an artistic choice. It would still be a shitty call.
Naw, I'm not buying any of it. If it was an artistic choice, it was a bad one. Audiences want to see the action. Especially, on TV's, laptops, tablets and smartphones all at varying streaming quality. That's how people consume content these days. To make content, that is specifically created for the home market, only viewable under optimal conditions with no warning of the calibrations needed, is kind of disrespectful to the intended audience.
That's like me mixing a client's song to sound good on my semi-pro monitors then telling him, "Fuck you, get better speakers or headphones if you want this mix to sound good." Obviously, that wouldn't fly. I have to make sure that song will sound good on crappy earbuds and computer speakers as well as top end monitor systems. That's the job.
I watched it, at night, in a dark room on my 42" plasma. Part of the reason I keep my old plasma is because nothing does blacks like it. OLEDs maybe, but I'm not dropping that kind of cash on a TV just yet. Now, my set isn't calibrated. I'm going to do that and see how much better it makes things when I rewatch the episode. But, as I stated earlier, I shouldn't have to.
Also, I use the HBONow app on my Amazon Fire stick to watch it. Far as I know, (I could be wrong or this may have changed) HBO only puts out 720p to stream. I wonder if people who use traditional cable got a better experience?
