heard it cost 15 million to make this episode and alot of people complaining that it was either too dark or something was wrong with their tv lol
I think they made it like that. shit gets more intense when you cant see cuz of all the darkness.
but yea a few friends said the quality was just straight crap when they tried to stream it live, so maybe something was up with the app. was fine for me
FYI if you stream using crave app on android/apple + xbox its only 720P i think apple tv 4gen and direct crave tv apps gives you 1080p
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/a...n4zT7Lq5Z8Ly5s
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Willcox said that Consumer Reports has heard complaints about the last two episodes from a wide range of sources and cable providers.
“So either HBO is screwing up the encoding of the show, or there's not sufficient bandwidth to transmit the show without losing the bit detail in darker images,” he said. “You don't really notice it as much in brighter scenes. I was able to watch it on an OLED TV, which does a better job with blacks, and even on these sets the issue remains. It's not the TV technology.”
According to Wilcox, streaming online is even worse. “One downfall to streaming are live events when everyone wants to watch the same thing at the same time; a lot of pressure both on internet connections and the hosting company's servers,” Willcox said.
There might be something to this. This morning, I loaded up " The Long Night" and watched it directly through HBO’s app and through Amazon. I watched bits of the episode on my television, my phone, and It’s still a dark episode, but much of the compression issues and artifacting seemed to have cleared up compared to last night’s viewing. Even on my phone, in my office, with the windows up in the middle of the day, Game of Thrones looked better.
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