I have a TV arriving soon that will presumably afford me the luxury of displaying HDR content. Meanwhile, I have been attempting to troubleshoot my brother's TV. He uses a Samsung Q6FN 55 inch. And as far as we have been able to tell, we simply cannot get HDR to work from the PC. Not even after carefully following half a dozen troubleshooting posts on the issue.
And the main problem is this: There doesn't to be a single method out there for determining, with absolute clarity, whether we are currently watching HDR. There are no Belle-Nuit-like charts clearly delineating HDR brightness from SDR brightness. Media players themselves seem to offer zero cues. Windows itself sure isn't letting us know. And for that matter, all turning HDR on in Windows seems to do is make everything darker -- even with the SDR-compensating slide moved all the way over to 100%, it's still darker than with HDR off.
HDTVTest demonstrates a visual representation of what I was really hoping to find available. It changes the entire presentation to a brightness scale, and one can easily identify when certain elements stray into HDR-exclusive territory. There is no guesswork.
This would feel like a non-issue had it turned out to be straightforward to get HDR content/games to play correctly in Windows. But as the many, many threads with people pulling their hair out seem to attest, we are just not there yet, and I lay most of the blame at the feet of this ambiguity problem. It shouldn't be this hard to know for sure whether HDR is working as intended.
Submitted December 07, 2019 at 04:50AM by Fredasa https://ift.tt/2OXSAhG
