online vids too dark.. why ?
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From: Howard on 28 Feb 2010 13:57 Hi all, I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up to maximum brightness. Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? Howard
From: Peter Ceresole on 28 Feb 2010 15:12 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? It shouldn't be, because Youtube videos all look fine, on all the Macs in the family, seven in all, including an iG5. I have seen this darkness problem with DVDs on an iMac DV (I think it was called) which was one of the old tubed egg-shaped ones, but that was a long long time ago, and I'm assuming that your iMac must be more modern than that? -- Peter
From: Howard on 28 Feb 2010 15:57 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > and I'm assuming that your iMac must be more > modern than that? It's two yrs old and very bright and runs perfectly (ver 10.6.2) H
From: Ben Shimmin on 28 Feb 2010 16:04 Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com>: > I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. > > I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them > always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up > to maximum brightness. > > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? I have no idea of the answer, but I can report that you are, at least, not alone: <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=848194> Are they still too dark if you use YouTube's HTML 5 beta? <URL:http://www.youtube.com/html5> b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Howard on 28 Feb 2010 16:47
Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com>: > > I posted on this before but got no satisfactory explanation. > > > > I watch vids on Youtube and lost of other sites. A majority of them > > always look darker than they should be even though my iMac is turned up > > to maximum brightness. > > > > Is this because of the differing Gamma between Apple and Windows ? > > I have no idea of the answer, but I can report that you are, at least, > not alone: > > <URL:http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=848194> > > Are they still too dark if you use YouTube's HTML 5 beta? > > <URL:http://www.youtube.com/html5> > I logged into Youtube in Safari 4.04 and chose the html5 option and then ran a video. I also ran in in parallel in Firefox 3.5.8 and they look identical - quite dark :-( H |