HDR is mind blowing (RDR2 updated to proper HDR)

[DonFerrari]

Lauster said:

Thanks Don and John for your answer.

DonFerrari said:

It was already mentioned here, the contrast.

You'll be able to differentiate much better the levels of dark or light. So when you are in a night scene or open area with lot of sunlight you'll see better all the elements on the screen instead of what we have today that things get hidden in plain sight due to scene being to dark or bright.

But of course the effect will need both a good panel and content. Some "HDR" panel and content are very light on the contrast ratio.

Yes, as Svennoj experimented in GT Sport for example. I think it's something I can notice, but if I have the good panel and content as you said.

 

John2290 said:

Of course there is, the luminosity is the main focus for me and trumps all else. Having three different light scoures or more crossing each other in Metro Exodus and one seemingly blinding you yet still being able to see the environment as if through the light rays in Metro Exodus Is crazy cool. I don't know much about colour blindness but surely having bmmore natural lighting scoures with a wider range from black to full luminosity would have to be a boon for the colour blind more than anyone else, No?

Yes, it's still a better option, I suppose, even if the gain is much less than a person with normal vision. Does the lumen power of a panel depends on its HDR capabilities ?

 

For explaining color blindness, pictures are better than words :

https://hitek.fr/42/vision-des-couleurs-daltoniens_4682

(scroll down to examples)

In my case, it's a deuteranomaly, and I can't see any difference between a deuteranomaly picture and a normal vision picture.

Thus, about color perception from HDR, I'm not sure that I can see the difference with a No-HDR display.

I don't know how exactly you see, but HDR give more options in all color spectrum, so even if you can't differentiate some colors you don't see the world in a 16 color palette =p, so having more color gradiente could be good.

Question for you, do you see a general difference in color between real world and games? If you do, the HDR will give you more natural colors.

On the brightness/contrast... a panel doesn't need to be HDR to have high bright or contrast, it is more on the opposite, it needs good brigh and contrast to receive HDR classification. But since the parameters are quite big you can have inane HDR to excelent and both would receive the seal. Plus the content needs to enable it and make good use (not like RDR2).