Between the pandemic and the fact that you can watch all the football at home, it’s been a long time since I watched a game with friends in bars or at home. At the Qatar 2022 World Cup I did this in many places outside the warmth of my own home, and more importantly for the reason for this article: outside of the warmth of a well-tuned TV.

Because yes, despite the fact that for many years almost every manufacturer has included a Film/Cinema mode by default, and more recently Filmmaker Smart TVs keep coming configured in modes that are wrong if the goal is to get good color reproduction based on how the image was designed from production.

We see football wrong: green is not radioactive. But there’s nothing written about pleasures

Watching World Cup games at friends’ homes and bars reminded me how badly we see football. Vivid/Vivid/Dynamic/Standard/Sports/Game/HDR Effect mode (name varies by brand) “destroys” the image in movies If what you’re looking for is a color reproduction close to what its creators intended. All this includes dynamic contrast, noise reduction, maximized artificial sharpness, etc. We should add software improvements such as Not to mention the motion smoothing options.

Things are worse in football. The green of the field definitely becomes radioactive. And at this point we need to talk about pleasures. It’s another matter what the standards and norms used by a broadcast’s studios and filmmakers are, and what each user likes, so that there is always consistency between any content and screen.

This is what football looks like in Live mode on LG OLED C9. It’s a bit of an exaggeration for what I’ve seen on other TVs.

As with smartphone displays over the last decade (and still is today), many users opted for Samsung’s ultra-saturated Super AMOLED, not the better-calibrated panels from brands like HTC or Apple. And totally acceptable., because there is nothing written about pleasures. And watching football at home is a joy, not a professional act of editing content.

With picture modes such as Cinema, Movie or Filmmaker We see how football is brought to life in the closest way.. When we are used to seeing football in very vivid colors, seeing football as it should be seen according to the norms seems like a lifeless, boring thing.

This is what football looks like in cinema mode. It looks boring, but that grass has more to do with what I saw when I went to Benito Villamarín.

Radioactive green and sharp field lines turn pale green and overall less bright lines and the image and a priori much less attractive to most eyes especially if they are not used to realistic colors on television.

But the truth is that in a live match in a stadium, green is more often seen than shown on TV or the way many people like it. boring, the “correct” mods we’re talking about seem like.

The Simpsons had already predicted how we would see the Qatar 2022 World Cup matches.

Once we get used to correcting facial colors instead of reddish or bluish just like in the movies, we can’t go back. I can’t go back to the green of football anymore, but like at the Simpsons’ radioactive farm, I understand who wants to keep watching the pitch. The best thing you can do to see the World Cup well is to tune in TVE UHD or use Gol Mundial UHD. Whatever your tastes, you will see it in the best possible quality.