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What is HDR, anyway?

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791 points _kush | 4 comments | 14 May 25 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.695s | source
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echo_time ◴[14 May 25 13:46 UTC] No.43984491[source]▶
Note for Firefox users - view the page in Chrome to see more of what they are talking about. I was very confused by some of the images, and it was a world of difference when I tried again in Chrome. Things began to make a lot more sense - is there a flag I am missing in Firefox on the Mac?
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1. cubefox ◴[14 May 25 15:04 UTC] No.43985398[source]▶
HDR support in Chrome (Android) looks still broken for me. For one, some of the images on the blog have a posterization effect, which is clearly wrong.

Second, the HDR effect seems to be implemented in a very crude way, which causes the whole Android UI (including the Android status bar at the top) to become brighter when HDR content is on screen. That's clearly not right. Though, of course, this might also be some issue of Android rather than Chrome, or perhaps of the Qualcomm graphics driver for my Adreno GPU, etc.

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2. davidmurdoch ◴[15 May 25 01:47 UTC] No.43991063[source]▶
Yeah, the HDR videos on my Asus Zenfone 9 (on Android 14) look like really terrible.
3. dpacmittal ◴[15 May 25 11:11 UTC] No.43993787[source]▶
Which Android phone are you using?
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4. cubefox ◴[15 May 25 12:22 UTC] No.43994262[source]▶
This one: https://gsmarena.com/motorola_edge_30_ultra-11206.php