Is HDR good for gaming? HDR on vs off!

We discuss what HDR is and whether it is good for gaming or not!

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[darrens]

I've NEVER seen HDR OFF looking like that, something is odd there.

[itsdtxjd]

Man I thought my tv had bad hdr or something. It makes everything look less colorful and dim lol

[optimistprime]

Bottom clip has the color saturation turned all the way up. Colors probably set on vivid. Horribly innacurate. Her skin as orange as her hair which as orange as the leaves which is as orange as the sun. HDR should always be brighter than SDR. Theres just so much misinformation i cant stop commenting how much is wrong with this video 😅

[Case_]

This is absolutely and grossly misrepresenting the difference between SDR and HDR. The image should look mostly identical, just with additional detail in highlights and shadows and brighter highlights, as well as finer colors (as in smoother gradients, not more - or less - saturation). Something's very wrong here, because here the supposed SDR image is blown and oversaturated, while the supposed HDR image is very dull.

[optimistprime]

This is such a poor representation as to what HDR actually is and looks like. Your display is clearly not made for HDR if the colors and lighting become that muted. Or your settings are absolutely askewed. HDR is darker darks, Brighter brights, And enhanced color space. Image shouldnt change very much other than contrast and maybe brighter colors. Your display should get to AT LEAST 600 nits if you actually want to utilize HDR. 1000 nits is better. Its way better on TVs as TVs are usually higher brightness than almost all moniters.

[nicholasrix]

We are watching all of this in SDR but that being said, the “HDR off” in this case looks way over saturated for some reason which looks terrible.

[realamericannegro]

The top one looks like a properly calibrated CRT or Projector TV bottom looks like a tv straight out the box with contrast turned all the way up

[lilcuteli]

It also highly depends on how well HDR was implemented by the creators, how good the display you're using is and how you changed the parameters of the TV image quality (some TVs are correct out of the box, others need you to play around the settings).

[AndreaAriu]

The only certain thing is that Aloy in the child version remains a nightmare in both settings.

[Madblaster]

You can't use the image for reference since it's not actually in HDR even when using an HDR monitor. It won't undersaturated images like in this example. In fact it has more colors.

[PerOnnai]

I feel like I've seen that clip before but the bottom was hdr😂

[domedsky]

Hdr doesnt just balance out the lighting it has a much wider range of colors

[michf]

Watching this on a 4K OLED tv screen, capable of HDR, I can confirm non of this is HDR.

[enematakv]

HDR makes everything look better on my QD-OLED monitor.

[silverwatchdog]

Honestly HDR has been the biggest graphical game changer as of late. It does way more for how a game looks than ray tracing. In games with HDR if you use SDR the game look really flat and boring in comparison. It was genuinely a wow moment when I got my OLED panel and played some HDR games on it, almost like the jump from 2D to 3D games. The colours were so punchy and stuff like lava and fire actually look how fire and lava should look, the contrast is insane. It’s a game changer for sure if you have a good monitor for it and the game has good HDR (most games do thankfully).

This video is showing an HDR clip on an SDR video.

[___king___]

These are flipped, top is what my tv monitor normally looks like, bottom is with it on

[manicniceguy]

HDR looks awesome on OLED with the right settings.

[ItsMeAsena]

This completely misinterprets HDR and SDR. The bottom clip has vivid colours while the top looks normal.

[tealc-alex]

You can actually see hdr on hdr screens thats why we have them, the kontrast is to deep for usual Displays and the output is not the same so thats why we have HDR to show the high kontrast image with les Detail los.