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  • Issue with bright whites especially on black backgrounds. Bloom?

I was happily on a KS8000 hdtv then it started having an issue and I decided it was time to replace. I tried a LCD X900e and it felt fine for a day or two. Then I started to have this issue where anything that was BRIGHT ontop of or next to BLACK backgrounds would cause the area around it to appear impossibly bright and more pronounced. It almost seems like the "bloom" which is imperceptible to most people was 10 x brighter and 10 x more pronounced.
Examples.
If a BRIGHT light source is near the black bars in a movie. Its not the bright light that bothered me nor the black bar. Its where the light bleeds into the black bar. HDR as you could imagine magnifies issue insanely.
SONY appears on blackground, the SONY is white and bright but thats not the issues. The area thats bleeding off the black ground is 3x brighter and hard to look at.
This brought more and more issues the more I used it. Light sensitivity, crazy eye strain, etc.... I gave up after a few weeks and went back to my KS8000. Issues resolved in a day or two.

Then I decided two months later to try OLED B7A.... it was much much much worse.

I have no idea what it is or what to look for. I tried tweaking brightness, contrast, I been using my ks8000 for a year and a half happily and before that projectors. I had no idea I had an issue. Went to an eye doctor, and she
ran every test and said I am fine but I have dry eye [which was WAY more pronounced from tv]. That was not the factor and I get an I get by with a drop or two a day otherwise. Once I stop using said the either of the last two TVs I tried I got better in a DAY. I am worried this issue is going to get worse and worse and I won't know how to avoid it. I am already facing an issue where I can probably not return original TV.

    3 years later

    Hi Eqzitara , I have somewhat similar issues with dark background on screens. You can see my post here related to that. I am using e-ink screens now and it is much much much better than backlit screens. Since your post is 3 years old, I was just wondering how are you doing now? Were you able to find any solutions?

    I get exactly what you mean but I mostly only have this problem on HDR content.

      4 days later

      Monie Unfortunately I have the problem on all screens. And back-lit screens amplify the effect by 1 million times.

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