Filmmaker Mode on TVs is getting a much-needed update that highlights the problem it had in the first place

• Filmmaker Mode 1.1 includes ambient light compensation
• It will have zero effect in very dark rooms
• It'll deliver brighter images without ruining accuracy

Filmmaker Mode is getting a much-needed upgrade that solves a key problem with the TV's picture purity setting: for many of us, it's just too dark.

As much as I love the idea of Filmmaker Mode – delivering movies exactly as their makers intended – there is one teeny-tiny problem with that, which is that I, and many of the readers who've been in touch with us about Filmmaker Mode on their TVs, don't watch our TVs in a movie theater.

And that means Filmmaker Mode makes many movies so dark that I might as well have the screen turned off if it's a bright day.