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Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond

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548 points CharlesW | 2 comments | 05 Dec 25 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pbw ◴[05 Dec 25 00:54 UTC] No.46155514[source]▶
There's an HDR war brewing on TikTok and other social apps. A fraction of posts that use HDR are just massively brighter than the rest; the whole video shines like a flashlight. The apps are eventually going to have to detect HDR abuse.
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thrdbndndn ◴[05 Dec 25 01:52 UTC] No.46155958[source]▶
The whole HDR scene still feels like a mess.

I know how bad the support for HDR is on computers (particularly Windows and cheap monitors), so I avoid consuming HDR content on them.

But I just purchased a new iPhone 17 Pro, and I was very surprised at how these HDR videos on social media still look like shit on apps like Instagram.

And even worse, the HDR video I shoot with my iPhone looks like shit even when playing it back on the same phone! After a few trials I had to just turn it off in the Camera app.

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1. johncolanduoni ◴[05 Dec 25 02:43 UTC] No.46156290[source]▶
I wonder if it fundamentally only really makes sense for film, video games, etc. where a person will actually tune the range per scene. Plus, only when played on half decent monitors that don’t just squash BT.2020 so they can say HDR on the brochure.
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2. Dylan16807 ◴[05 Dec 25 15:28 UTC] No.46162555[source]▶
Even without tuning it shouldn't look worse than squishing to SDR at capture time. There are are significant ecosystem failures that could be fixed.