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Succession poor image quality

magicrevolver — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:47:25 GMT

The first episode of the latest series of Succession was very poor quality for a supposed HD channel. Very pixelated in dark areas with that strange flashing effect I've seen on other HBO shows through Sky. Anyone else notice this? The quality of the actual show was great, shame it was let down by the poor image.

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DigBick — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 21:57:29 GMT

I found the sound quality of Succession poor. I also found some other Sky channels sound poor, but the adverts were clear.

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BJQ1972 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:17:42 GMT

@magicrevolver wrote:
The first episode of the latest series of Succession was very poor quality for a supposed HD channel. Very pixelated in dark areas with that strange flashing effect I've seen on other HBO shows through Sky. Anyone else notice this? The quality of the actual show was great, shame it was let down by the poor image.

Have you got an OLED TV by any chance?

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TimmyBGood — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 09:42:55 GMT

@DigBick wrote:

I found the sound quality of Succession poor.

It may be suffering the common curse of having been mixed for a sound system using at least three channels: these audio tracks typically don't reproduce well on standard left/right TV speakers. If you don't already have one, adding even a cheap soundbar can make a significant difference to clarity.

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merv60 — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 12:35:44 GMT

I recall a lot of complaints about the picture quality of the TV series The Outsider a while back, also an HBO show. I found I was able to improve the picture by switching to Film mode on my TV.

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magicrevolver — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 15:51:36 GMT

No it's not a OLED.

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Chloe-W22 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 13:11:11 GMT

Hey @magicrevolver,

Can you give some more detail on which part of the picture looks off to you? Also if you have any images that really helps in getting it looked at 😊

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magicrevolver — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 18:52:21 GMT

Sure. It's very grainy and 'blocky' on dark areas and there are lines across the screen at some points. I hope these pics illustrate some examples.

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BJQ1972 — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:38:38 GMT

The strange lines always show if you display the OSD/time banner. What does it look like without that?

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LGUser — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 21:57:56 GMT

@magicrevolverHow does the first episode of the new season of Succession look if you watch a downloaded copy?

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magicrevolver — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:23:54 GMT

I've taken an image best I can whilst not on pause.

In darks areas there is a lot of banding and pixelation. It kind of flashes too. Perhaps I should take a video. It's the same on the recorded as well as the downloaded version. This is from the downloaded version.

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magicrevolver — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 06:24:46 GMT

No difference between downloaded or recorded.

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LGUser — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:21:37 GMT

@magicrevolver @Are you watching from a Q box or a mini? I noticed that with a mini, really dark scenes look better on the Q box.

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Chloe-W22 — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 08:43:44 GMT

Thanks alot for those! I'll get it sent over to be looked into😊

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magicrevolver — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 11:58:18 GMT

It's from a regular Q box (non UHD)

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LGUser — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 14:12:37 GMT

@magicrevolver wrote:
It's from a regular Q box (non UHD)

Then yes, it is the program. When the really dark season 8 episode of Game of Thrones was brosdcast, it was worse watching it on the mini then from the Q box (a v1 2TB Q box).

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Andym15 — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 08:25:06 GMT

@merv60 wrote:
I recall a lot of complaints about the picture quality of the TV series The Outsider a while back, also an HBO show. I found I was able to improve the picture by switching to Film mode on my TV.

I remember that thread well and at some point Sky, to their credit, listened and significantly increased the size of the download version to try and improve things. It made no difference at all to picture quality.

To me that confirmed that the problem lies fully at HBOs doorstep. Until they provide Sky with high quality, high bitrate programmes the problem will continue. There is no way Sky can improve anything if they are provided with garbage to work with.

Sadly Succession is yet another example of this, and every example is an HBO production.

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Alesio21 — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 21:45:25 GMT

Also having the same issue with Succession on the Sky HD box. Watched 4 episodes and all of them were really bad picture quality.

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Rhonny — Sun, 28 Nov 2021 22:35:45 GMT

@Alesio21

Are you actually downloading them in HD? They've been immaculate for me in HD.

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12rounds — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 08:24:27 GMT

I have binge watched all of succession over the last month and the picture has been fine. The colour grading at the production end does seem to make the show seem older than it is.

Seen it mentioned above about sound quality too and the suggestion of a soundbar... an alternative is bluetooth headphones if your tv is capable.