Filmmaker mode is coming to TVs from Samsung, Philips, LG, Panasonic and Vizio

The movie maker mode introduced last year by the UHD Alliance, a mode that disables image interpolation, for example, is coming to new televisions from many major TV manufacturers. In any case, it concerns TVs from Samsung, Philips, LG, Panasonic and Vizio.

At CES, the UHD Alliance announced that the movie maker mode has gained support from a number of US film organizations, as well as widespread support from major television manufacturers. During a presentation of the UHD Alliance, it appeared that Samsung and TP Vision also supported the mode.

LG, Panasonic and the American Vizio already expressed their support for the filmmaker mode last year, with Panasonic indicating that it would be introducing it on its OLED TVs that it will launch this year; at least that applies to the recently unveiled HZ2000 OLED TV from the Japanese manufacturer. LG will also only release the mode on new TVs that come out this year and later and presumably that will also apply to Samsung and Philips TVs, but these manufacturers have not yet given any further information about this.

The movie maker mode was created after lobbying from Hollywood. Quite a few well-known directors want their films to be viewed the way they intended. Filmmaker mode responds to this by disabling custom colors, extra frames from image interpolation, aspect ratios, sharpening, and other image enhancement techniques. According to LG, the mode in sdr leads to a brightness of 100cd/m² and a gamma value of 2.4.

In practice, there will be two methods to activate the movie maker mode. First of all, this can be done manually, probably by pressing a button on the remote control. In addition, it will also be possible automatically, whereby the television can switch on the mode based on metadata in the signal. This will be the case, for example, with new televisions from LG. FlatpaneldHD showed how an LG TV shows a pop-up message on the screen when recognizing film material, where the viewer can then choose to switch the mode on.