When we buy a TV set or a monitor today, we are thrown around the wildest terms and the latest technologies, which the average buyer has only heard about on the sidelines at best. HLG, HDR, HDR+, Dolby Vision, that’s what they’re called, the standards of today and tomorrow that present us with the most realistic videos we’ve ever seen. They all define so-called contrast or dynamic ranges in which the images or videos are displayed. So it’s not a matter of resolution, but of the range of the colour space. The higher this is, the more contrasty and appealing the image will be.
From SDR to HDR – more contrast, more depth
Up to now, classic TVs were usually displayed with SDR (standard dynamic range), which provides a contrast range between 6 and 8 bits, i.e. a maximum of 256 brightness levels per color channel. For some years now, more precisely since CES 2015, HDR has been on everyone’s lips. HDR video stands for high dynamic range and uses a color depth of 10 bits, which is why it...
