Jeffrey Grubb: Auto HDR is one of next gens coolest features

[SvennoJ]

VAMatt said:

SvennoJ said:
Auto HDR yuck. That will put many people off HDR as a real improvement to games. It's bad enough TV manufacturers do it. At least you can turn it off? If a game or movie isn't made for HDR, don't add it after the fact. It just looks wrong.

I disagree that it's necessarily a bad feature. But, it certainly should be something that can be turned off. Generally speaking, art, which is what games are, should be experienced in the way the artist intended. I don't have any problem with sprucing the art up, but you should still have the option to play games with the original colors. Is that not the case here?

I assume you can simply disable HDR, either in the console menu or on the tv end.

It should be harmless, just for old games. Unlike the system wide gamma correction 360 and One had to make the visuals pop, causing black crush and needing different tv settings for xbox on one side, and the other consoles on the other.