The “transformative” Sky Glass image quality update that I previewed back in October is now rolling out to customers. The update aims to address criticisms of the TV’s original picture quality, which we described in our Sky Glass review as “a bit washed out and not vibrant”, and as having “limited contrast”.
The update targets the TV’s local dimming engine, which has been guilty of artificially brightening and darkening content, and struggling to effectively combine bright and dark picture elements at the same time, essentially sometimes resulting in a too flat and gray image.
In the demo I saw back in October, the update made a marked improvement in terms of contrast, with deep blacks and punchy, vibrant highlights that were easier to mix and match. In general, the picture was much more impressive and impressive than that of the non-updated TV.
Demos are just that, of course, and there’s no real guarantee that the update now headed to owners will be identical to what I saw on Sky’s campus a few months ago, but it’s certainly cause for optimism and we’ll see it ourselves in view for a short time.
The picture quality upgrade, which Sky refers to as Aurora Display, appears to be an update to the TV’s current Vivid picture preset, so you may need to select that to take advantage of it. That seems like a slightly odd choice on Sky’s part, as the contrast benefits can and should be applied to all presets and Vivid modes aren’t usually the most authentic, but we’ll need to test the update before we can fully understand its implementation.
Aurora Display isn’t the only new feature in the new Sky Glass update, which is rolling out now and should be with all owners by the end of the week. You can also now find a lost remote by saying “hello Sky, where’s my remote” and the zapper will beep. Useful.
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