Due to the increasing amount of HDR-compatible hardware and content on the market, TV manufacturers are scrambling to deliver products which meet the HDR display standard.<\/p>\n
HDR \u2013 high dynamic range \u2013 refers to an increased contrast ratio, brightness, and colour range generally available on 4K displays.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately for consumers, there is no single standard for HDR hardware, meaning that products may be branded as supporting HDR, but may not deliver the expected experience.<\/p>\n
If you are buying or already own a 4K TV and are unsure about whether it supports HDR, here\u2019s what to look out for.<\/p>\n
There are\u00a0certain specifications which must be met when\u00a0classifying HDR-enabled devices.<\/p>\n
The main specifications used when defining HDR are brightness (measured in nits), colour (8-bit is the standard for normal TVs), and contrast ratio.<\/p>\n
While there may be HDR branding on your TV, these specifications are important to note in order to get an idea of your maximum picture and colour quality.<\/p>\n
Major HDR formats include HDR10 and Dolby Vision.<\/p>\n
Dolby Vision sets the bar high for HDR standards and includes 12-bit colour depth, 4,000-nit maximum brightness, and wide colour gamut.<\/p>\n
HDR10 uses 10-bit colour depth and the Rec. 2020 color space, and is supported by a wide range of UHD TVs and gaming consoles, such as the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.<\/p>\n
If your TV supports either of these standards, it qualifies as an HDR TV.<\/p>\n
The best way to determine whether your TV supports HDR is to play a high-quality video, as the difference in picture quality between standard UHD and HDR is immediately noticeable.<\/p>\n
To test colour range and contrast ratio, first ensure that the video you are viewing is HDR content.<\/p>\n
Demo UHD 3D<\/a><\/strong> has a large collection of 4K HDR demos you can download and use to test your TV\u2019s HDR capabilities.<\/p>\n This article first appeared on MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n There are certain specifications which must be met when classifying HDR-enabled devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":105003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585],"tags":[21905,14022],"class_list":["post-114489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-hdr","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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