The Video Insiders

What happened to S8E3 Game of Thrones video quality?

Episode Summary

Discover what happened in the now infamous Game of Thrones season 8 'The Longest Night' episode (S8E3), which rather than delighting fans, greatly disappointed them by being so dark and full of artifacts, as to be nearly unwatchable. Mark and Dror dive in to the encoding science to explain how this terrible debacle happened.

Episode Notes

Mark and Dror discuss the video encoding and image science behind what happened in the now infamous S8E3 Game of Thrones 'The Longest Night' episode, which rather than delighting fans, greatly disappointed them by being so laden with video artifacts that it was nearly unwatchable.

Want to learn more about this? We wrote an indepth blog post which explores the issues further, you may access it here: https://blog.beamr.com/2019/05/03/game-of-thrones-quality/

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