| ▲ | dangoodmanUT 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HDR is terrible The fact that you can't turn it off system wide shows the macOS leadership is asleep at the wheel | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | Night_Thastus 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
HDR is terribly implemented, in most cases. (Especially Windows) macOS handles it about the best of the bunch. What I hate is on Windows, you need to basically explicitly set the program, the OS, and the monitor into an "HDR mode". Then, once you're done, you need to un-set it or the colors and brightness will be screwed up. That is tedious AF. I refuse to use it until it doesn't require constantly toggling crap on and off. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | bigstrat2003 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Agreed. I've used it on my PS4, and all that it accomplished was an annoying screen blank and restart every time I started a game which used HDR. It didn't actually make anything look better. I turned it off after some experimentation and I don't plan to ever mess with it again with how underwhelming it was. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tshaddox 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
That strikes me as an odd opinion. Surely the colorspaces and display technologies that predate HDR had as much dynamic range as they could reasonably squeeze out of the technology at the time. Is it the brightness specifically that bugs you? I could understand that, although brightness is not directly related to HDR (in the same way that loudness in digital audio is not directly related to bit depth). Of course I do agree that these things should be configurable. And on my MacBook Pro, I can set the built-in display to sRGB. Is that option not available on your particular Mac and display? | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | pier25 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
I love HDR for movies/shows on OLED but other than that I agree. It really sucks you can't disable HDR in apps like Netflix etc. It does look terrible on non OLED TVs. In Chrome you can force a specific color profile in the settings. I believe sRGB shouldn't allow HDR content. Personally I think the biggest benefit of HDR is not even those super bright annoying colors but 10-12 bit colors and the fact that we can finally have dark content. If you look at movies from 10-20 years ago everything is so damn bright. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | LoganDark 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> The fact that you can't turn it off system wide shows the macOS leadership is asleep at the wheel You totally can, at least on Apple's XDR displays. Just go to System Settings -> Displays -> Preset and change it from "Apple XDR Display (P3-1600 nits)" (or whatever) to "Internet & Web (sRGB)". You lose the ability to change screen brightness (I assume because you're locked to reference brightness), but HDR is fully off. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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