Advice on HDR

[CaptainLambino]

Hi all,

I notice when HDR switches on, naturally, the picture changes. Which of course is to be expected. However I feel things look worse. Blacks become grey. Colour seems to fade.  The Brightness just seems off. The Contrast isnt right.

As it stands now, for things like gaming, I am just turning HDR off because it seems to just suck the life out of the games. I am playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and the game looks faded with HDR on and full of life with it off. Things like Netflix seem to be hit and miss. Ozark looks ok in HDR as the colour pallete for that programme is very sombre and muted. But surely this isnt the intended effect of HDR? For things to look dull?

What am I doing wrong? What are your preferred settings to get the best output? Id love to just have the setting turned on and not feel like something is not set up correctly!

Any advice would be great!

Thanks guys 

[dutchice]

Hi CaptainLambino,

Actually you are correct on most of your findings. Just wanted to have a word perhaps you will find it informative.

At the moment we are still in the early days of HDR roll-out. From consumer electronic device manufacturers, all the way to TV broadcasters, production houses, movie makers, content publishers, game producers and technology standard alliances; all are in the process of learn, try and correct. The HDR technology is one which requires for all steps of the chain from start to finish to be handled appropriately and according to one set of guidelines.

For each one of your findings there is a technical reason behind it, where things have not gone entirely according to plan. As a result the end experience for the consumer results in a disappointment. A good example is your observations of the RDR2 game by Rockstar Studios.

Eventually in the years to come, this kind of cutting corner practices will vanish and the technology will be affordable to the full spectrum of stakeholders in order to comply accordingly. In the meantime we will have to be positive and patient for improvement.

Cheers,

Dutchice