I don’t understand why visual dynamics limiters/compressors don’t exist as audio dynamics limiters/compressors are foundational tools in audio engineering and the math isn’t that different.
Dark Mode in a dark room will always be an anxiety inducing experience because it is exactly like not putting a hard limiter on your audio chain to protect against sudden loud noises destroying your ears.
What is needed are a suite of visual dynamics tools at nearly the last step of graphical display, it could even be a setting on computer monitors themselves. It pisses me off this doesn’t already exist honestly.
No it isn’t, flux does the equivalent in audio engineering of just turning the volume down while applying a broad “tilt” eq that gently and broadly cuts high frequencies.
I get really frustrated that people always respond this way, the difference between a compressor and a volume knob + eq is that the compressor dynamically responds to inputs whereas a basic volume knob and equalizer do not dynamically respond to inputs but rather apply the same effect equally to all of the audio sent through it… this is one of the first things you learn in audio engineering and production and yet it is a total alien concept in computer displays even though everyone is constantly gouging their eyes out because we don’t have a way to place a limiter on how drastically contrast can change on a computer monitor.
Many OLED tvs actually have the feature you’re talking about. The industry term is Total Brightness Limiter (TBL).
TV reviews tend to talk about it as a negative thing though lol. My Sony Bravia does that. My Samsung smartphone from 2012 had that when you put it in “reader” mode but I think they got rid of it with later models.
Edit: some manufacturers also call this “selective dimming” but you have to be careful with that because sometimes it means the panel will do the exact opposite of what you’re asking for and artificially boost the bright areas.
Anyways I would highly recommend rtings.com as they do a much better job of documenting these features than the manufacturers do lol.
I don’t understand why visual dynamics limiters/compressors don’t exist as audio dynamics limiters/compressors are foundational tools in audio engineering and the math isn’t that different.
Dark Mode in a dark room will always be an anxiety inducing experience because it is exactly like not putting a hard limiter on your audio chain to protect against sudden loud noises destroying your ears.
What is needed are a suite of visual dynamics tools at nearly the last step of graphical display, it could even be a setting on computer monitors themselves. It pisses me off this doesn’t already exist honestly.
f.lux is the software you seek. It’s been around since the 90’s.
No it isn’t, flux does the equivalent in audio engineering of just turning the volume down while applying a broad “tilt” eq that gently and broadly cuts high frequencies.
I get really frustrated that people always respond this way, the difference between a compressor and a volume knob + eq is that the compressor dynamically responds to inputs whereas a basic volume knob and equalizer do not dynamically respond to inputs but rather apply the same effect equally to all of the audio sent through it… this is one of the first things you learn in audio engineering and production and yet it is a total alien concept in computer displays even though everyone is constantly gouging their eyes out because we don’t have a way to place a limiter on how drastically contrast can change on a computer monitor.
Many OLED tvs actually have the feature you’re talking about. The industry term is Total Brightness Limiter (TBL).
TV reviews tend to talk about it as a negative thing though lol. My Sony Bravia does that. My Samsung smartphone from 2012 had that when you put it in “reader” mode but I think they got rid of it with later models.
Edit: some manufacturers also call this “selective dimming” but you have to be careful with that because sometimes it means the panel will do the exact opposite of what you’re asking for and artificially boost the bright areas.
Anyways I would highly recommend rtings.com as they do a much better job of documenting these features than the manufacturers do lol.