topic Re: Screen too bright in Sky Q

Screen too bright

JimRok — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:37:05 GMT

Hello,

The screen brightness is much too bright when watching chanels through Sky. (Everything is nice and dim when selecting through the AppleTV menu.)

Do you know how to turn the Sky screen brightness down please?

It is a Sony TV screen, and I am able to adjust the brightness with the Sony remote, but it adjusts the Sky chanels from too bright to far too bright, whereas the Apple TV chanels are all within a good brightness range.

Thank you!

Jim

Re: Screen too bright

xenon81 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:59:29 GMT

The Sky box has no brightness settings, that is all down to the TV. Sky shouldn't look any more (or less) bright than other sources.

Re: Screen too bright

JimRok — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:06:33 GMT

Thank you Xeon!

I agree, it would be good if the brightness were the consistent across the media... and yet, it isn't!

I see that the Sky settings include resolution and contrast, but can't see anything for brightness there either.

Re: Screen too bright

TimmyBGood — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:20:27 GMT

@JimRok wrote:

I see that the Sky settings include resolution and contrast, but can't see anything for brightness

'High Contrast' in that context is an Accessibility mode for subscribers with sight issues to help with navigating the user interface: it's not an adjustable PQ setting

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/using-the-accessibility-settings-on-your-sky-q-box

The only thing on a Sky box which affects brightness on a television set is whether or not HDR is in effect.

Re: Screen too bright

Chodley — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:44:40 GMT

What type of TV is it? Sounds like an LCD. Backlight settings are probably set on a per-input basis.

Re: Screen too bright

JimRok — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:09:07 GMT

mmm... good call - could be the HDR setting -

do you know how to change the HDR setting please?

Sky says I must upgrade to watych their help tutorial on this..! 😓

Re: Screen too bright

JimRok — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:11:08 GMT

Thank you Chodley -

it is a high definition flat screen - Sony.

I'm not familier with the terms 'backlight' and 'per-input'. . . Sorry - I'm new here!

Re: Screen too bright

Chodley — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:18:19 GMT

All LCD TVs (flatscreens can also be plasma or OLED) have, in addition to the brightness setting, a "backlight" setting which controls the baseline brightness of the light that sits behind the colour crystal layers.

The "brightness" setting controls how the colour LCDs themselves behave in blocking the light (lower= more blocking for the same input colour signal)

I think that changing that setting is possible "per input". i.e. the TV remembers it separately for each input. Maybe it's set higher for Sky than it is for your other sources?

It probably isn't HDR if your box isn't outputting it. The TV would normally detect an HDR signal and then max out the backlight automatically. But if the Sky box is set to 2160/8bit resolution that shouldn't happen. You need 10bit colour for HDR. And most Sky content is not HDR anyway. I suppose it's possibly the FV might have a manual override to go into HDR mode, but that'll be something you'll need to find in the TV menus.

Re: Screen too bright

cuke — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 10:28:42 GMT

@JimRok try this forum https://www.avforums.com/forums/sony-tvs-forum.113/ for information on how to setup your Sony...