However, HDR is not only truer to the original visual of the red Ferrari, but also the correct way to view it. It'll still look quite good in SDR, but it has to be tone-mapped and compressed down. With the case of the red Ferrari, there are some car colors out there that only HDR can best represent. I wouldn't think of wider color as saturating colors to the max. So really contrast and wider color range. Though in the case of the latter, it's mostly about widening the color gamut.
So a proper HDR output would be bringing out the sparks from a smith hammering, or the bold reds of a Ferrari. And actually there are reference monitors that display HDR with no issues even before the HDR craze - I think these displays are what's used for post-production and professional work, so they're not available to consumers.Īnyways I like to think of HDR as wowing people with sheer contrast values, while maintaining excellent overall luminance of the picture. There are displays available that deliver HDR quite well, but still not quite up to snuff.
