This is kind of disappointing. Hopefully it is a bug seeing as it only affects HDR game mode. What were the black level issues that this fixes?
I haven't done the update myself, but it was supposed to fix an update of raised black levels. A lot of people haven't been seeing completely black images in Dolby Vision. More of a very, very dark gray. It is generally "fixable" by reducing the brightness to 49 for me, but then you lose some details in darker images. This update was supposed to fix that. I will say if you watch TV with ambient light, you probably wouldn't have noticed the raised blacks as much. As least I don't. Only in a room with absolutely no lights do I start to notice raised blacks every now and then, but I usually have one light on somewhere whenever I watch TV.
I haven't had a huge issue with it personally, but considering part of the selling points of an OLED is inky black images, I can see why some would have an issue with it..
I would also hope this is something they fix since it only effects HDR game mode, but LG did something similar with the 2016 OLED's that killed the brightness in one of their HDR modes, and they never fixed it. I basically never updated my TV because of it. That issue was way more significant, though, just from the perspective that I really haven't been hearing a lot of complaints of this CX update relative to the 2016 issue. When the 2016 issue happened, the complaints pretty much happened right away and very loudly.
For me, yes. I was losing my mind with the eARC issue where I had to turn off tv and the entire setup just to get sound back after watching something with Atmos
I don't even watch anything in Atmos, and I still have been having eARC issues. At least once every 24 hours my TV reverts back to Internal Speaters. I have to turn my Apple TV off and on with my TV to get it working again. Sometimes 2-3 times before ARC re-engages. The issue started to appear only a month ago, and I have had the TV since August. It is very odd. Hopefully this update fixes my issue and not just this Atmos issue.