teapotter
38 posts
The biggest problem with HDR is the lack of "paper white" level standardization and metadata. SDR is simple: if it looks too bright or too dark, you adjust the display settings. HDR can't do that: the image is pre-formed for your display peak brightness (HGiG), so games need to expose a brightness slider. Instead of forcing games to add a calibration menu, OSes (including consoles) should expose a system-level paper/diffuse white parameter that games can use to do tonemapping, and that users could change on the fly. This information should then be bundled in any captures of this content. Right now in HDR captures, paper & peak brightness info gets lost, meaning there's no way to reproduce the content reliably elsewhere, so when you look at a YouTube HDR video, it might be too dark or bright for you, and you can't do anything about it. After ~10 years of HDR there still seems to be little progress to standardize this (Dolby Vision doesn't fully solve these problems). Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, Nvidia, YouTube etc need to make a strong effort to handle it before this turns into an ever bigger mess.
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In a free market, I can’t sell bread at 100× the normal price. Competitors will undercut me, and even if I buy them out, new ones will keep entering. That cycle never ends. Predatory pricing fails because the moment I raise prices, customers leave. Cartels fail because members cheat and new entrants break in. The only reliable way to maintain a monopoly is through the state. By trading favors with politicians, I can use government power to block competitors under the guise of regulation, public safety, or national interest. In reality, those rules exist to protect cronies like me. This can only happen publicly when the government passes regulations, because regulations are the public face of cronyism. Thus contrary to what dumb socialists think, solution is to protest and ask removal of regulations not billionaires and capitalism itself.
