New Govee Immersion TV Backlight Tests
So, I'm guessing on your original view it was catching some color reflection from looking up at the tv with some overhead lights. Might be a good reason to keep it at the top for most people. When you put it on the top, it definitely looked much better, but it looks like the bottom is changing colors in much larger chunks than the top or the sides. Is that something that can be adjusted during calibration?
More on reddit.comTook the right calibration but I definitely got them working! Loving every minute of this! (Govee Immersion Tv Light). Also, this works just fine for my 50".
[Govee Immersion] Any agreed upon 'best settings' for brightness and saturation?
Just set up my Immersion lights and I think I'm disappointed. Did I do something wrong or were my expectations too high?
If you're not getting anything from the top and bottom try moving your calibration points in a bit, it's not too important to have them right to the edge of the screen. As far as reaction time, ive found that setting the brightness to about 60 percent and having the mode set to game works best. That way if there is a flash of light on the screen the back light has room to go up in brightness, as opposed to being at 100 it's not much of a change if any.
Biggest things for me; bringing the calibration points in a bit.
Making sure there aren't any bright lights or windows next to the tv being picked up by the camera
Brightness set to about 60, and saturation almost all the way down.
And mode set to game if you want fast reaction time.
Also can move the camera a little higher or lower depending on if your mounted on the top or bottom, and angling the camera towards the tv so it's less of a perpendicular angle. Best bet for that is to adjust it while you're in calibration mode, press refresh, and keep adjusting untill you can see the whole tv.
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Been testing the new Immersion backlights after making some modifications to the camera by raising it up higher so it can see more of the TV and it is now much better.
Original Review:
https://youtu.be/sYrGYKxjPk4
Updated Tests after altering camera position:
https://youtu.be/surWP4tQZXs
https://youtu.be/YsY0gZPQqv0
So, I'm guessing on your original view it was catching some color reflection from looking up at the tv with some overhead lights. Might be a good reason to keep it at the top for most people. When you put it on the top, it definitely looked much better, but it looks like the bottom is changing colors in much larger chunks than the top or the sides. Is that something that can be adjusted during calibration?
Curious on how you raised and kept the camera secure. I installed mine today. I'm liking it but one side likes to go red/purplish and it didn't appear to capture the entire screen (55 inch) during calibration and would like to try raising it
I see most posts recommend turning both of these settings way down but I'm not sure what looks best for my eyes (I'm still playing around with it) so what settings should I try?
If it matters I have a darker blue green wall backing the TV so I'm sure that will affect my settings compared to yours but I'm still curious.
I set up my Immersion lights yesterday and while the fluid sim hue test looks pretty great, nothing else seems to work all that well. I haven't tested a ton of different sources, but what I have doesn't seem all that impressive.
For instance, most movies and tv shows don't fill the entire screen so the lights have nothing to react to for the top and bottom, thus displaying blue or purple. And even the sides just didn't do much. The reaction time was too slow to pick up anything flashing or quick movement. I watched some of Iron Man 2 and I expected when the blue car is pushed off screen, the blue would bleed out or when there was a repulser blast that it would flash to that side of the screen. Neither of these things happened.
I also tested Fenyx Immortals on PS5 and the colors were rarely correct, especially the green and yellow. Sometimes they would be correct if I moved a little and others it just seemed random.
Were my expectations too high? Or is there something I'm missing?
If you're not getting anything from the top and bottom try moving your calibration points in a bit, it's not too important to have them right to the edge of the screen. As far as reaction time, ive found that setting the brightness to about 60 percent and having the mode set to game works best. That way if there is a flash of light on the screen the back light has room to go up in brightness, as opposed to being at 100 it's not much of a change if any.
Biggest things for me; bringing the calibration points in a bit.
Making sure there aren't any bright lights or windows next to the tv being picked up by the camera
Brightness set to about 60, and saturation almost all the way down.
And mode set to game if you want fast reaction time.
Also can move the camera a little higher or lower depending on if your mounted on the top or bottom, and angling the camera towards the tv so it's less of a perpendicular angle. Best bet for that is to adjust it while you're in calibration mode, press refresh, and keep adjusting untill you can see the whole tv.
Like the previous post, the biggest difference I found to achieving accuracy of the colours and responsiveness was in bringing the brightness/contrast down and reducing the OLED brightness down on my TV. I'm confident that the govee camera can't handle the amount of light being output from the screen as I accidentally tried to calibrate once with the TV on to find the colours on the calibration screen were totally blown out to white, leading me to believe the camera is too sensitive (to my TV settings at least, but this may be true for other people too).
Commonly I get that constant whitish blue colour even when watching content with swathes of green (I.e. wildlife/jungle based documentaries etc)
I really wish there was a way to reduce the camera input brightness from within the app, as I believe this would help with the colour recognition all round.
Whilst my TV is OLED bright, it's not over bright in the relative sense, so I am loathed to turn the brightness down permanently to facilitate the quirks of the govee system. I've even tried some hacky methods like putting lens filters in front of the govee camera lens to control the amount of light, which does work to some extent (but obviously looks awful so I didn't pursue this as a remedy).
Regarding your high expectations, i totally get that, I must admit I was a bit disappointed after comparing to the demos online. But the other way to look at it is to think of the bias light angle of all of this. Whilst the system can achieve those really vivid colours, I'm not sure if it supposed to be used to drench your walls in hypercolour 100 percent of the time. I think the bias light intention is to reduce the amount of contrast your eyes are exposed to on a bright TV, so maybe turning the overall output brightness on the app down a bit so it blends a bit more with your surroundings might help. I find if the output brightness is too high, I just find it distracting anyway.