Greg Mandel
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I have to agree with Greg. Throughout the snow (white) scenes in GOT last night I too played with the warmth. Now I have slightly altered my white balances (-/+ here and there) and neutral gave me the closest to white I could get. Warm 1 & 2 just made it look stale and creamy.
But like you said. It's all relative and in the eye of the beholder
Funilly enough, it was the same thing with me. I was watching a nature documentary with lots of snow and mountains, and the scenes just looked very yellow/cream. Look at a movie like "Alien" and the scenes at the beginning in the hypersleep suite look drastically different. Clinical, white walls looks quite yellow using Warm settings.
I quite like the neutral as not only are whites more white, but it brings things away from that traditional film looks and more towards a modern digital cleanliness.
Obviously it's all "eye of the beholder stuff", but people get used to a certain look and instead of giving different things a chance and experimenting, the first thing they do is set everything to look the same as their old screens because that is what they are expecting.