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

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548 points CharlesW | 1 comments | 05 Dec 25 00:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | 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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munificent ◴[05 Dec 25 01:00 UTC] No.46155558[source]▶
Just what we need, a new loudness war, but for our eyeballs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war

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eru ◴[05 Dec 25 01:13 UTC] No.46155678[source]▶
Interestingly, the loudness war was essentially fixed by the streaming services. They were in a similar situation as Tik Tok is now.
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1. Demiurge ◴[05 Dec 25 05:15 UTC] No.46157056[source]▶
You would think, but not in a way that matters. Everyone still compresses their mixes. People try to get around normalization algorithms by clever hacks. The dynamics still suffer, and bad mixes still clip. So no, I don’t think streaming services fixed the loudness wars.