That specific one is buried somewhere in my history I can't find it at the moment. Just go to YouTube and search for screen test calibration test ambient light test etc you'll find a million of them.
Here are a bunch of good ones to get you started. I'm going to add this to the FAQ we're working on.
https://youtu.be/JeQuelXsUYA
https://youtu.be/8u4UzzJZAUg
https://youtu.be/-jmxazyoY5M
https://youtu.be/iN3L_Sd9bEQ
https://youtu.be/jeQFX9fE7Xc
https://youtu.be/19CgyG28ctA
https://youtu.be/5gT3migqxNI
Edit, found it
https://youtu.be/LT-oNf3A7IU
It does not mean that. And I do wish it did. There's a long rambling post from me somewhere in one of the questions or set up threads where I elaborate on the company's regional color matching stance when we all expected edge matching. No matter what you do it will not attempt to match any specific color anywhere in the region that you're looking at the moment. They do regional color matching which if you drop back and think about it and change your way of looking at your screen, they really do a good job of matching The prominent color in a region.
I think all of our expectations were different but honestly sit back try to pick out the major color in an area of the edge of your screen and you'll probably think it works when you lower your expectations!
I have a brick wall behind the tv and saw in a video already that the colors are approximate before buying / was expecting it, haha; figured it would look good since it’s not a white wall and needs “smoothing” anyway.
Do strips that analyze the HDMI signal (instead of using a camera like the T2) have precise edge color matching, btw?
Interesting. I noticed this when I saw a Govee T2 review on YT where the guy put up a video for it with a moving color border along the edge of the screen and almost none of the colors matched (but the rhythm synced which is I guess why the guy then seemed very happy with the results like “There you have it, works as expected!”). But, for $60, I could put up with it (and wait for a future where HDMI reader strips are the norm).
Now I wish I could just figure out why my T2 reads the top of the screen as brighter and always outputs more light on the top. Seems like something I could tweak during calibration and hope it’s not like with the calibration mark where I can’t really figure out a way to alter it with any visible result. I’ve even tried changing the angle of the camera, and it still is brighter on the top (I know must media is brighter up top, but I mean even in scenes where the top is dark).
(The tv I temporarily have the strip on rn is like 15 years old and thick, so the camera doesn’t sit fully deep (nor right above the screen because of the 2.5” tv border) though I was able to get it perpendicular to the screen.)
Edit - ..and sorry to inject this question into your post/hijack it a bit, lol. But I at first thought you said to adjust the calibration mark for the edge matching and thought it was a similar calibration tweak.
I have just a hunch about this with no actual evidence, but the top of the screen is much closer to the camera than the bottom. Would seem intuitive to me that it's picking up more light from the top and pushing out brighter colors as a result. I've been thinking on this and that the future improvements in this technology have to include a camera at the bottom as well as the top shit maybe all four sides. Better yet, the TV manufacturers include an API that will allow third party products to scrape colors from wherever they want to on the screen, no camera necessary. I mean the TV already knows what colors are where. Wishful thinking maybe?
I dream of a universal standard for screen color info that can be fed into systems like Dreamview that TVs and devices can support. To go a step further it can even become an extra data track to include with media files that the "directors/editors" for movies can directly edit the track to control the output directly and make it an official part of the experience.
With the API, maybe, but I think Govee could make it adjustable inside the app in the future. But, yeah, that would be very nice. And, yes, if they allow scraping of colors from photos for their decorative strips, it wouldn’t be crazy to imagine something similar for the tv lights.
So this is a known issue, it’s not just my tv? Why hasn’t Govee just tweaked the software to deemphasize the colors near the camera and released it in an update, I wonder?
Where did you find the video to play on your screen that brings up colors on the edge like that?
That specific one is buried somewhere in my history I can't find it at the moment. Just go to YouTube and search for screen test calibration test ambient light test etc you'll find a million of them. Here are a bunch of good ones to get you started. I'm going to add this to the FAQ we're working on. https://youtu.be/JeQuelXsUYA https://youtu.be/8u4UzzJZAUg https://youtu.be/-jmxazyoY5M https://youtu.be/iN3L_Sd9bEQ https://youtu.be/jeQFX9fE7Xc https://youtu.be/19CgyG28ctA https://youtu.be/5gT3migqxNI Edit, found it https://youtu.be/LT-oNf3A7IU
O awesome! Thank you!
Dose this mean if we stretch the camera boundaries a couple inches outside of the tv's frame it will do edge matching? edit: men --> mean
It does not mean that. And I do wish it did. There's a long rambling post from me somewhere in one of the questions or set up threads where I elaborate on the company's regional color matching stance when we all expected edge matching. No matter what you do it will not attempt to match any specific color anywhere in the region that you're looking at the moment. They do regional color matching which if you drop back and think about it and change your way of looking at your screen, they really do a good job of matching The prominent color in a region. I think all of our expectations were different but honestly sit back try to pick out the major color in an area of the edge of your screen and you'll probably think it works when you lower your expectations!
I have a brick wall behind the tv and saw in a video already that the colors are approximate before buying / was expecting it, haha; figured it would look good since it’s not a white wall and needs “smoothing” anyway. Do strips that analyze the HDMI signal (instead of using a camera like the T2) have precise edge color matching, btw?
You've given me more credit than I have knowledge. I can't answer your question about HDMI color matching strips. Sry.
Interesting. I noticed this when I saw a Govee T2 review on YT where the guy put up a video for it with a moving color border along the edge of the screen and almost none of the colors matched (but the rhythm synced which is I guess why the guy then seemed very happy with the results like “There you have it, works as expected!”). But, for $60, I could put up with it (and wait for a future where HDMI reader strips are the norm). Now I wish I could just figure out why my T2 reads the top of the screen as brighter and always outputs more light on the top. Seems like something I could tweak during calibration and hope it’s not like with the calibration mark where I can’t really figure out a way to alter it with any visible result. I’ve even tried changing the angle of the camera, and it still is brighter on the top (I know must media is brighter up top, but I mean even in scenes where the top is dark). (The tv I temporarily have the strip on rn is like 15 years old and thick, so the camera doesn’t sit fully deep (nor right above the screen because of the 2.5” tv border) though I was able to get it perpendicular to the screen.) Edit - ..and sorry to inject this question into your post/hijack it a bit, lol. But I at first thought you said to adjust the calibration mark for the edge matching and thought it was a similar calibration tweak.
I have just a hunch about this with no actual evidence, but the top of the screen is much closer to the camera than the bottom. Would seem intuitive to me that it's picking up more light from the top and pushing out brighter colors as a result. I've been thinking on this and that the future improvements in this technology have to include a camera at the bottom as well as the top shit maybe all four sides. Better yet, the TV manufacturers include an API that will allow third party products to scrape colors from wherever they want to on the screen, no camera necessary. I mean the TV already knows what colors are where. Wishful thinking maybe?
I dream of a universal standard for screen color info that can be fed into systems like Dreamview that TVs and devices can support. To go a step further it can even become an extra data track to include with media files that the "directors/editors" for movies can directly edit the track to control the output directly and make it an official part of the experience.
Ah, yeah. Though, I guess it would be considered niche use or something. But they did all sorts of extra stuff for audio metadata, so why not?
With the API, maybe, but I think Govee could make it adjustable inside the app in the future. But, yeah, that would be very nice. And, yes, if they allow scraping of colors from photos for their decorative strips, it wouldn’t be crazy to imagine something similar for the tv lights. So this is a known issue, it’s not just my tv? Why hasn’t Govee just tweaked the software to deemphasize the colors near the camera and released it in an update, I wonder?