How many of you take advantage of HDR while gaming?

[DonFerrari]

GrahfsLament said:

d21lewis said:

I think the Samsung showed me what a good picture is supposed to be instead of what I thought a good picture was. I wasn't even using "game mode" because "sports mode" seemed to make things look more fluid and pop more. The biggest thing was switching to Game Mode and then enabling certain features in the video settings of the consoles, themselves. 

Thanks for explaining HDR, btw. I never really understood why TVs could display certain things but only if a certain setting was on. Almost like they were purposely holding back something just to give it to us for extra money. But you cleared it up.

Haha, I don't think I ever even give the presets a shot. For me, it's always straight to "Custom" and adjust from there :D I also will usually modify the "Cinema" and "Graphics" (or whatever the one geared towards non-gaming activities on computers happens to be called), save my changes as the preset, and flip the preset based what I'm viewing on the TV. And I definitely understand what you mean about "Sports Mode" looking more 'lively'. In addition to the "Sports" setting, my previous Bravia (2014) actually had a dedicated 'Football' button on the remote that was pretty neat and useful.

DonFerrari said:

I know the feeling, I'm the same. To make things worse my hometheater doesn't have a passtrhough for 4kHDR so I have to connect the console direct to the TV and use the optic to send audio to the hometheather, but then that isn't really full spectrum 7.1 =[

I feel for you. I was extremely lucky in that the sound system I grabbed about 3 years ago just happened to support both when I finally got a 4K/HDR TV. The PS3's, PS4's, and PC's support of 7.1 makes me cringe whenever I encounter the rare game that refuses to output beyond 5.1. I've also spent more time than I should probably admit troubleshooting older PC games like F.E.A.R. and Republic Commando to restore surround sound (since they rely on technologies that no longer existed by Windows 7 & 10). As I noted in a thread about sound systems, this level of positional sound has definitely saved my digital life many times. 

My surround is considerably older, but well that is part of life and wanting the "best mainstream" you need to improve your electronics from time to time and usually whatever is old hold the rest down.