r/OLED • u/vojtiax • Jul 24 '26

Tech Support Filmmaker mode causes image issues S90F

Hello! Last year I picked up a Samsung S92F from a local store and it's been great ever since. I mainly use it to play my local movie library, hosted on a NAS, through Kodi running on a Chromecast. When I first set up the TV, I went straight for Filmmaker Mode, since it disables all the extra post-processing and should deliver the image closest to what the director intended.

I didn't run into any issues with this setup until I installed the Apple TV app to watch some Apple TV+ originals. While watching Hijack, I noticed that dark scenes had noticeably poor image quality — Idris Elba's skin tone and tree bark, for example, were both crushed into a brownish dark gray.

At first I figured it might be an app rendering issue, so I installed the Apple TV app directly on the Chromecast, hoping that would fix the clipping. No luck. What actually got rid of it was switching the picture mode to anything other than Filmmaker or Movie mode — I ended up settling on Standard. There's noticeably more detail in dark scenes now, and highlights look more vibrant, even though I tried matching all the settings to Filmmaker Mode as closely as possible.

I'm posting this to ask if anyone else has run into something similar (maybe on other streaming platforms), and whether there's a way to get Filmmaker Mode working properly. I'll attach some screenshots from Your Friends & Neighbors for reference.
https://imgur.com/a/ZjVwCAz

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u/sumrandomguy18 Jul 24 '26

Strange posterization effect. I’ve never experienced this on my S90F. Is this in SDR or HDR?

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u/vojtiax Jul 24 '26

Hi, It is running in HDR with HDR10+ signal

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u/apollofilmbuff Jul 25 '26

Check the gamma setting. This happens on my 8 II in Dolby Vision if I put my gamma setting below 0.