Sky Sports UHD Query

[Ant1987]

Hi all. Hoping someone can help me or confirm it this is supposed to be the case. 

I have an LG smart TV with various picture modes including Sports. On normal HD I can select Sports however when on Ultra HD Sky Sports this appears to be be missing and i can only see Standard, Film maker mode and I believe Cinema. 

I've looked online and I believe it's something to do with how Sky broadcasts it's HDR/UHD coverage. I've checked on my Sky Box and 2160p is selected. 

Please can someone clarify if this is right?

Many thanks 

[oldfella]

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@Ant1987 wrote:

Hi all. Hoping someone can help me or confirm it this is supposed to be the case. 

I have an LG smart TV with various picture modes including Sports. On normal HD I can select Sports however when on Ultra HD Sky Sports this appears to be be missing and i can only see Standard, Film maker mode and I believe Cinema. 

I've looked online and I believe it's something to do with how Sky broadcasts it's HDR/UHD coverage. I've checked on my Sky Box and 2160p is selected. 

Please can someone clarify if this is right?

Many thanks 

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Hi @Ant1987 

You need 2160p 10 bit for UHD HDR content.

See following link for UHD help

https://www.sky.com/help/articles/setting-up-ultra-hd

[nigea99]

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@Ant1987 wrote:

Hi all. Hoping someone can help me or confirm it this is supposed to be the case. 

I have an LG smart TV with various picture modes including Sports. On normal HD I can select Sports however when on Ultra HD Sky Sports this appears to be be missing and i can only see Standard, Film maker mode and I believe Cinema. 

I've looked online and I believe it's something to do with how Sky broadcasts it's HDR/UHD coverage. I've checked on my Sky Box and 2160p is selected. 

Please can someone clarify if this is right?

Many thanks 

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hi @Ant1987 

I don't know about LG Tvs but my Panasonic TV does still list most TV modes when watching UHD/HDR content

Sports Mode & Dynamic/Vivid modes tend to apply a lot of digital processing and specifically increase brightness which can leave too little room to allow the full dyamic range of HDR content

Personally I nearly always stay with THX Cinema Mode (the closest to modern Filmaker mode) - I find Sports mode in particular too overprocessed (similar to Vivid/Dynamic) . That said occasionally I would use a slightly  brighter mode to watch the now retired SKI Sunday

[Ant1987]

Thank you both very much for the replies. I have checked and it does select 2160 10-bit in my Sky Q settings. 

I believe looking at the replies it's because UHD allows deeper saturation and processing that Sports does not show on picture mode. I've looked and Vivid doesn't show either.

Many thanks again