Is HDR a scam? To me it feels like they're just restoring the color they removed from the non-HDR version that was perfectly achievable with old panels. No one ever complained about stuff lacking color before, but now people often complain about movies and shows lacking color and tech shills respond with the need of owning HDR capable displays. This all feels like a trick to me.
Good HDR is phenomenal, especially on OLED displays. But honestly most movies, especially those made before 2010, don't have great HDR editions. You also gain most of the benefits of HDR through image clarity, which is why so many tech demos for HDR televisions are just high resolution nature shots. The best they can do with grainy older films is increase the nits on torches and vehicle headlights.
Outting yourself as someone who watches movies on their computer monitor should cause an instant ban desu
>>217412020There was some capeshit movie I was watching that had scenes in it that looked completely different than the SDR version. The plastics of the set looked drastically different between the two; one looked like you were standing on-set (you could clearly see the cheapness) and the other like regular ol' video.
>>217411703Yes it's a scam. No film was shot for HDR until like the late 90s. And even then we didn't have screens to display it.No theatre does HDR.HDR works best on OLEDs but most OLEDs are not bright enough for HDR.When a retard says "wow this new 4k release with HDR makes the movie look so colorful!!" Don't realize it's their oversaturated OLED adding artificial color + the fact that 4k has more bitrate for more color data.Also Dolby Atmos is scam.>Just drill and open up the ceiling to add more speakers!!You can't sell me on such bullshit when the greatest films of all time have a fucking mono soundtrack.
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>>217412450Nta but was it on the same screen? I just got a 4k triple laser projector and it's full of all kinds of post processing bullshit to "improve" the image.I will admit, watching a 4k disc with frame interpolation so the actors look like they're moving at 60fps or whatever is a fucking trip.
>>217412596>watching a 4k disc with frame interpolation so the actors look like they're moving at 60fps or whatever is a fucking trip.
>>217412596>Nta but was it on the same screen?Yeah, it was an LG CX. I don't remember the movie (it had Batfleck in it), but it was the first time I had seen HDR affect the image like that.
Is there a proper way to set HDR in mpv?
>>217411703>t. europoorHDR looks great on my TCL QD-MiniLED
>>217412367Are you stupid? The smart choice is using a TV as monitor nowadays.
Probably depends on your tvs hdr capabilities
>>217411703>No one ever complained about stuff lacking color before,ya because people are retards and run their tv in vivid modemost normies didn't even realize the crushed blacks to 10% grey on the siege of winterfell season 8 episode of game of thronesmost people's opinion on what colors look ok is garbage
>>217411703no you fucking poorfag
On my main device, an Xbox Series X, I find that having HDR enabled always makes things look worse, darker and more washed out. It gets rid of color banding but that's the only apparent benefit, turning HDR off makes everything look a million times better.Anyone else experience this?
>>217412646I watched like 30 seconds of Bride of Frankenstein with it on, retard. I turn everything off and all the post processing off only keep 24fps mode on for silky smooth kinoes.>>217413050I've been using a TVs as a monitor for nearly 15 years. No, I DONT need 1ms response time.
Where do you folks get HDR content ? Do the HDR test videos on youtube even work ? HDR rips seem to be ten times the size of SDR rips of the same movie so you got to download 40gb which is a no from me. I have an HDR capable OLED but my blu ray player and fios cable box dont seem to support HDR.
>>217414566Is your HDMI setting set to Full or Limited? Also consoles are fucking awful for 4k discs because they don't really have a dedicated processor for the disc data.
>>217414440Agreed. Most people haven't even disabled the motion interpolation/cinemotion/trumotion crap that comes default on their tv. And if you ask them about it, they say they didn't even notice...
>>217414617You need a 4k player for HDR, so a regular Blu-ray player won't work. Also you need a current HDMI cable.
>>217414566Yes. On both my "HDR capable" tvs, games and movies look dark as fuck. I have to disable HDR on all my devices.
>>217414654>And if you ask them about it, they say they didn't even notice...In my experience, if you tell them to disable that, they get angry and tell you it looks better with fake frames. What I started to do afterwards was to disable it behind their backs without telling anything. And not a single person noticed the change.
>>217414636Full, and with all the possible HDR modes on the console enabled. Weird thing is the PS5 doesn't have this issue and HDR looks good and correct there. But the Xbox has most of my game library so it's where I spend way more time
>>217411703A major issue with HDR is that not standardized, each TV screen comes calibrated differently and has different algorithms it's build upon etc, so you have to tweak each screen according to what you think looks good, is not exactly user friendly in the end
