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What is HDR, anyway?

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790 points _kush | 1 comments | 14 May 25 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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the__alchemist ◴[14 May 25 13:43 UTC] No.43984458[source]▶
So, HN, are HDR monitors worth it? I remember ~10 years ago delaying my monitor purchase for the HDR one that was right around the corner, but never (in my purchasing scope) became available. Time for another look?

The utility of HDR (as described in the article) is without question. It's amazing looking at an outdoors (or indoors with windows) scene with your Mk-1 eyeballs, then taking a photo and looking at it on a phone or PC screen. The pic fails to capture what your eyes see for lighting range.

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SomeoneOnTheWeb ◴[14 May 25 13:53 UTC] No.43984573[source]▶
IF you have a display that can it roughly a 1000 nits, then for movies and games yes definitely the difference with SDR is pretty huge.

If you have say a 400 nits display the HDR may actually look worse than SDR. So it really depends on your screen.

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1. simoncion ◴[14 May 25 16:39 UTC] No.43986567[source]▶
Honestly, I find the extended brightness FAR less important than the extended color gamut. I have a ~300 nit VA monitor that I'm generally quite happy with and that looks fantastic with well-built HDR renderers.

Given that monitors report information about their HDR minimum and maximum panel brightness capabilities to the machine they are connected to, any competently-built HDR renderer (whether that be for games or movies or whatever) will be able to take that information and adjust the picture appropriately.