HI!

I was wondering, why this TV has just 7.2 points for Movies given that it has “outstanding contrast ratio” (9.3, 7000:1), and “remarkable black uniformity” (9.6), as well as good rating in other features related to movie watching (stutter, judder, etc).

So I went and analyzed in detail the score components and weights you put to each feature in the Movie Rating, and I discovered that local dimming is taking 20% of the weight.

First, I don’t finish to understand why is local dimming so important when that the TV has such good native contrast ratio. Isn’t local dimming more improtant in TVs with mediocre contrast ratio? Moreover, local dimming can introduce undesired side effects like blooming.

I made a sheet with the scores to compute the weighted average of the score components. In this particular case, if Local Dimming was, say, 4 instead of zero (so, a bad local dimming), the score would be 8 points for watching Movies, just because of the weight Local Dimming has, and just because it was there.

So, bottom line:

• Aren’t you penalizing too much to absence of local dimming in a TV with very good native contrast ratio?
• Aren’t you giving too much weight to local dimming in general?

This makes for example that the Hisense H8G has 8 points for Movies, when it has:

• Native contrast ratio of 4500:1
• Black uniformity with 7.3 points
• Local dimming with 7.0 points, raising contrast ratio to 4900:1, still worse than Q60T

Maybe there is something I don’t finish to understand about this feature, and would be very nice if you could explain.

Thanks!