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did an episode explaining the different standards available for HDR or high

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dynamic range TVs and displays which you

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should check out over here if you haven't but come right back because if

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you find yourself drawn in by all those HDR marketing promises of brilliant

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lifelike images what else should you consider before you buy and why is HDR

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such a big deal anyway simply put dynamic range is the difference between

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the darkest dark and the brightest white that your display can show having a high

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dynamic range will improve both contrast and color reproduction saving you from

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scenes that look overly muted or washed out so your first step in buying an HDR

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display should be to check what standards it supports such as HDR 10

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Dolby vision and HL g against what kind

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of content that you're going to be watching and you're gonna want to

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cross-reference that against the standards that the content that you'll

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be watching utilize also if you're into

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that sort of thing you'll need to ensure that your favorite streaming service

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will provide your device with an HDR feed at all for example Amazon Prime

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video supports HD are on certain TVs and phones but not on pcs which isn't to say

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that you'll automatically have a wonderful experience if you go with a

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Dolby vision TV to match your impressive Dolby vision blu-ray collection another

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specification you should pay very close attention to is it displays brightness

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rating in nits since HDR is predicated on having a Y brightness range you'll

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want a display that can get sufficiently bright for you to see the HDR effect as

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intended so many of the nicer HDR displays are rated at a thousand nits

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peak brightness which is ideal because that's what HDR 10 videos are mastered

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at now I'd say you could get away with a TV in the 600 to 700 nits range if

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you're on a budget but beware cheaper models below 500 nits most of these

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really can't do HDR justice with the

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exception of course of ohlet's these don't go as high in terms of their peak

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brightness but they go much lower in

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terms of their maximum level of black so you're still getting a very wide range

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all right then so you've done your homework you've picked the right display

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and you've made sure that your devices like your blu-ray players and your PC's

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support the HDR standard you want which for a PC means you've got HDMI 2.0 a or

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a DisplayPort 1.4 port as well as a GPU

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that's no older than NVIDIA's GTX 10 series AMD Tsar X 400 series or Intel's

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eighth generation Core gyu HD graphics is there any additional set up to do

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well you probably don't need new HDMI cables but you will of course want to

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make sure that any HDR functionality is switched on for all devices in the chain

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sometimes this can actually be buried deep within a menu under a different

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name like deep color on LG's displays which I guess isn't entirely inaccurate

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but if you're trying to use HDR on a PC things can get even Messier you'll want

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to go into your GPU settings and make sure that you switch the bit-depth to

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10-bit since Ted of 8 this will ensure that your computer will use the wider

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color gamut we discussed previously then you'll need to double check that the HDR

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and advanced color settings under display properties and the stream HDR

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video options under video playback are both enabled you'll also want to make

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sure that you have the latest graphics drivers installed and that you're

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running the Windows 10 full creators update at minimum because even with a

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recent GPU HDR support is non-existent

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on older drivers and Windows builds prior to 1709 this is especially

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frustrating if you've put together an expensive computer to play the growing

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number of HDR games on offer and even more so if you're a Linux user which

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perfectly illustrates I guess that while we've tried to give you the best advice

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we can in today's episode HDR is still a

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fledgling technology with even more new standards trying to gain a foothold so

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pay close attention to what changes are taking place if you're buying a new TV a

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year or two down the line or if all of this is too much you can just go outside

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and look at the trees it's like HDR gaming but with even better graphics

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