Buried in Google's CES announcement is the thing I actually want to argue about. You'll be able to tell Gemini that the screen is too dim, or that the dialogue is lost, and it will adjust picture and sound for you without opening a settings menu. Those two phrases are Google's own examples. Select TCL devices get it first, other Google TV sets over the following months.
Half of me thinks this is overdue. Most people never leave whatever mode the set shipped in, and saying a sentence out loud is a much lower barrier than four levels of menu. If it nudges somebody off Vivid, good.
The other half wants to know what it actually changes, and nobody has said. Dialogue is lost on most televisions resolves to some clarity or speech-boost processing, and that stuff routinely mangles a mix worse than the problem it was meant to fix - it mostly just pulls down everything that isn't centre channel. Too dim could mean backlight, or it could mean dropping you out of a mode that was tracking properly into one that isn't. If you have a set dialled in, a family member saying one sentence and silently rewriting your preset is a genuinely annoying failure mode.
The things I'd want answered before switching it on: does the change persist, is it per input or global, and does it touch Filmmaker Mode. None of that is public yet.
Would any of you leave this enabled on a set you'd calibrated, or is finding the off switch the first job?
Half of me thinks this is overdue. Most people never leave whatever mode the set shipped in, and saying a sentence out loud is a much lower barrier than four levels of menu. If it nudges somebody off Vivid, good.
The other half wants to know what it actually changes, and nobody has said. Dialogue is lost on most televisions resolves to some clarity or speech-boost processing, and that stuff routinely mangles a mix worse than the problem it was meant to fix - it mostly just pulls down everything that isn't centre channel. Too dim could mean backlight, or it could mean dropping you out of a mode that was tracking properly into one that isn't. If you have a set dialled in, a family member saying one sentence and silently rewriting your preset is a genuinely annoying failure mode.
The things I'd want answered before switching it on: does the change persist, is it per input or global, and does it touch Filmmaker Mode. None of that is public yet.
Would any of you leave this enabled on a set you'd calibrated, or is finding the off switch the first job?
