Are 4K Blu-rays Not Getting The Best HDR? | You Asked Ep. 59

On this week’s episode of You Asked: Why don’t 4K-Blu-rays take better advantage of the HDR capabilities in today’s TVs? A quick clinic on how you can become an ace troubleshooter and figure out what’s wrong with your system yourself. And a brand new segment I’m gonna call “Feeding the Trolls … with “medicine.”

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8:13 Are 4K Blu-rays Fully Underutilizing HDR
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[Slyclientthetechdad]

Thanks for continuing to cover physical media topics. People have no clue what they are missing out on not watching 4k UHD Discs. Its unfortunate that the big corporations swindled their way to making people feel that the convenience of streaming is superior to getting top quality. Then they give you options that benefit them as far as choices and the general public just accepts this. Then every year they make them pay for a movie like Home Alone. Smh

[devonmccarroll]

Caleb, I just wanted to say that you've helped this--ahem--60(ish) year old lady learn so much! I really like to research the things I'm buying, and try to learn as much as I can about how technology works and how to do things myself. I really appreciate you and all that you do, and I look forward to these "You Asked" videos every Sunday!

[edgarmendez]

The majority of us know what you guys at digital trends and you, Caleb, are all about. I am grateful for everything I’ve learned here and other channels. No need for having to explain yourselves for adding a membership but makes complete sense. Keep up the great work!

[craigpratt]

Trolls will always be trolls. They just seem so uninformed, uneducated, ignorant yet willing to "offer" their opinion on stuff they know nothing about. I know it must be so hard to ignore them, but just keep up the great work Caleb. You and your team are doing a fantastic job!

[tcoles]

You rock bro! The whole team is doing a great job.

[Hibbsy]

"Mr Hibbs, " I don't get very often 😊 thanks for looking at my question! I'll definitely try the soundbar on a friends TV, with it being intermittent might be hard to replicate.
When I said in eARC I can loose sound, it literally disappears, no audio at all.
When I said HDMI, I probably should have said just basic ARC mode, in this mode no issues at all but no Atmos. I'll try your suggestions and report back. Thank you again for taking the time to answer my question! Love the show.

[Aquadon]

Discs have a residue very often and should be cleaned before first use! YES on troubleshooting clinic vids Thanks Caleb!

[BigPhi]

6:41 I thought that I was experiencing sound drop off problems too! 😂😂😂

[beauport]

Yes please, a dedicated video on in-depth AV trouble diagnosis. You provide so much to your listening audience.

[tomreidy]

Did you mention cables first as a problem? I would start there before moving equipment around.

[Exzeph]

I've had brand new 4K discs (still shrink wrapped) have grease smears on their silvered surface. So new disc doesn't mean anything -- still possible to have to clean them

[kenmuchiri]

Caleb, just remember that “The noise of the market doesn’t stop the farmer from selling his produce, " and "The croaking of the frogs don't stop the cows from taking water at a well."

[CareBear-Killer]

For the folks with the audio drop out issues...
I have a sony TV. it was great everywhere, but when streaming from the internet, I'd get some random audio drop outs. Turns out it's how the TV caches and adjusts the audio based on the wifi signal changes. so any movement in the house or breathing wrong that would cause a fluctuation the wifi signal, even if it doesn't effect the internet speed, would cause the TV to adjust the audio and cause a quick drop out.

I installed a $20 wireless media bridge and connected my TVs ethernet port to the bridge. Haven't had an audio dropout in months.

With troubleshooting, sometimes you have to get creative, but never stop eliminating things. No matter how sure you are about something, test it anyways.
At some point, you will find the cause of your issue. This goes for anything you're troubleshooting.

[terrystone]

Thank you for all the WORK you and your team do. I have found that ALL helps me make value choices. I am planning on purchasing C4 55 do to your review of the same. Thank you. Keep up the great work you do. 😊

[TJWasiuk]

One of my favorite channels. Thank you for all that you do.

[KevinTMcGing]

Welcome a video devoted to AV troubleshooting.

[michalispetrides]

Sony B7 review please.
Can you also recommend TCL European models and prices. Very different fr US models.
Thank you

[jamesrobinson]

A good high level trouble shooting starting point.
As for your explanation of lower HDR highlights on Blueray... seems well explained and parallels exactly how your home theatre sound should be sized... My biggest system (9.2.6) is 15 channels at 350W RMS and 2x SVS SB16 Ultras... (and all of the speakers can handle more than my RMS power potential)... I am certainly NEVER going to be playing it at anything close to max volume, and rarely even run higher than -35Db... there's zero chance of distortion or clipping with loads of headroom... I figure max nits are similar on the eyes and screen as max volume is on the ears and speakers...

[thisoldman]

I am ready for an in depth analysis in diagnosing tv problems!

[khmr]

I remember reading a white paper early on that stated 100nit SDR content could be mapped to 200nit HDR with no loss in quality.

Considering I calibrated my LG CX's ISF Dark to a perfect Rec709 reference response with a colorimeter, I can easily say watching SDR Bluray is just as enjoyable as UHD Bluray.

When it comes to actual films, I think you're right about preserving the look of the film... as long as the expanded dynamic range matches the dynamic range of the film stock or digital cinema camera, that's going to be enough.

The thing I've been wondering myself recently is how often film color would naturally exist outside of the Rec709 colorspace and can DCI-P3 or Rec2020 most efficiently allow for the full color response without clamping.

My main gripe is that currently, we're seeing 144Hz panels get into consumer televisions and that a perfect opportunity to accurately simulate a triple strobe film projector and eliminate telecine conversions forever. Display each frame of 24p 3x with 3 black frames in between, and you get 24x6=144 just like a real film projector. I'm more interested in high brightness panels being able to maintain the correct APL with a 50% BFI ratio like I described than reach for the stars with blinding specular highlights.

I was disappointed that LG wasn't touting such a feature in the G4, it should have been priority one!

Currently, the only way to even experiment with this would be a SDR Bluray fed into a RetroTink4K that could generate the black frames and triple buffered image and then send the resulting 144Hz signal to the LG amd then calibrate ISF Bright to 100nits with the BFI baked in.

I'm hoping someone can get through to LG at the right level and get them to understand that a feature like that is ideal.