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What is HDR, anyway?

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791 points _kush | 1 comments | 14 May 25 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.261s | source
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aidenn0 ◴[14 May 25 15:01 UTC] No.43985366[source]▶
> A big problem is that it costs the TV, Film, and Photography industries billions of dollars (and a bajillion hours of work) to upgrade their infrastructure. For context, it took well over a decade for HDTV to reach critical mass.

This is also true for consumers. I don't own a single 4k or HDR display. I probably won't own an HDR display until my TV dies, and I probably won't own a 4k display until I replace my work screen, at which point I'll also replace one of my home screens so I can remote into it without scaling.

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reaperducer ◴[14 May 25 15:12 UTC] No.43985522[source]▶
This is also true for consumers. I don't own a single 4k or HDR display. I probably won't own an HDR display until my TV dies, and I probably won't own a 4k display until I replace my work screen, at which point I'll also replace one of my home screens so I can remote into it without scaling.

People in the HN echo chamber over-estimate hardware adoption rates. For example, there are millions of people who went straight from CDs to streaming, without hitting the iPod era.

A few years ago on HN, there was someone who couldn't wrap their brain around the notion that even though VCRs were invented in the early 1960's that in 1980, not everyone owned one, or if they did, they only had one for the whole family.

Normal people aren't magpies who trash their kit every time something shiny comes along.

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colechristensen ◴[14 May 25 15:19 UTC] No.43985619[source]▶
>there are millions of people who went straight from CDs to streaming, without hitting the iPod era

Who?

There was about a decade there where everyone who had the slightest interest in music had an mp3 player of some kind, at least in the 15-30 age bracket.

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1. aidenn0 ◴[14 May 25 15:35 UTC] No.43985808[source]▶
I don't know if I count, but I never owned a dedicated MP3 player[1], I listened to MP3s on my computer, but used CDs and cassettes while on the move, until I got an android phone that had enough storage to put my music collection on.

1: Well my car would play MP3s burned to CDs in its CD player; not sure if that counts.