High dynamic range or HDR has been the
next big thing in display technology for
what seems like forever now I mean hell
our first video about it is from 2014 and it's hard to find a decent TV
without that feature these days and yet
HDR is still far from a mainstream
feature on PC monitors but are we on the
cusp of a revolution sitting unknowingly at the bottom of a looming scurve about
to be forcefully catapulted into a utopian future of super bright H vibrant
displays well if we were then the Dell up 2718 Q would be that future it's a 4k
monitor with full hdr10 support and
1,000 nit Peak brightness let's see if
it's time to start giving a crap
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description when it comes to looks the ultr sharp 27 4K HDR from Dell lands in
the Goldilocks zone of understated
sophistication not too flashy for an office and not too dull for the
$1500 price tag it's got a space gray
are we allowed to say that that it's got a gray plastic finish one of the easiest
to use onscreen displays in recent memory and a generous amount of Mobility
the stand can tilt swivel pivot and
whatever that word for adjusting the height is let's go with Elevate but also
the opposite of that there are two HDMI 2.0 a ports on the back the A is for
ahdr both regular and mini DisplayPort
1.4 ports also HDR ready an audio line
out and a pretty sick integrated USB hub with six USB 3 ports two with fast
charging and dual uplinks that's so the
up 278 Q can be used as a KVM switch to
quickly move between tasks on two systems neat and there's a bunch of
impressive specs inside the display too it's got a 4K 60 HZ IPS panel with true
10bit color and an incredible
384 local dimming zones that is what
allows it to produce super bright points
with dark areas right next to them and
those bright points can be really bright up to a, knits fun fact knit is another
word for the unit Candela which is equal to the light output of one candle so
this is basically like the output of a th000 candles in your face sort of
that's the peak brightness typical brightness sustained across the whole
screen is 400 nits which is still brighter than most displays so all this
culminates then in a truly professional
grade monitor with high contrast ratios
accurate colors with Delta e under two and excellent coverage of even the most
demanding color gamuts it even comes with a Nifty color calibration report in
the Box neat okay then so you're stoked
as hell and you've got the Windows 10 creators update and you're ready to bask
in the glory of HDR you hit the toggle button and hey why does it look so drab
isn't HDR supposed to be uh H what's the
technical term again the welcome to
the HDR Rabbit Hole HDR is an awesome
technology but Windows 10's implementation of HDR really
demonstrates just how unsettled the dust
is so the colors went dull when HDR was
turned on for two reasons the first has to do with color space most of the
content on your PC is likely to be in the srgb color space which has fewer
colors than Rec 2020 the color space
used by the hdr10 standard so when HDR
is on colors need to be remapped to rec
2020 and since srgb has fewer colors in
the gamut it's not always a good fit the
second reason it looks bunk has to do with brightness with HDR on Windows is
imposing a ceiling of a 100 knits on the
screen's brightness the colors don't actually change they still have the same
Hue it's just that your eyes perceive them as less rich or saturated well okay
but that's pretty crap lonus why would Windows turn the brightness down because
if it didn't you would get blasted when
the non HDR content is remapped if the
whitest whites were allowed to be represented by a thousand nits of
brightness a blank white page and say
Microsoft Word would be blinding plus
all the other colors would look super saturated and
wrong so you might think then that it would be better if Windows could leave
all the colors alone until it detects HDR content that's being viewed and then
it could just adjust them on the fly but that's just not how it works right now
okay so then the solution is to just switch it on when you're watching HDR
content like stuff on Netflix or uh
Amazon Prime video or YouTube not so fast those guys offer HDR content but
due to browser limitations it's actually only available through the apps on your
HDR ready Smart TV for now fine then
lonus at least there's gaming right okay
this one yes Mass Effect Andromeda looks
sick in HDR unfortunately if you also
like to play other games right now you're bound to end up disappointed at
the moment HDR games are few and far between and many of the titles you see
advertised as HDR only do so on the Xbox 1s or the
PlayStation 4 or 4 Pro where that TV HDR
ecosystem is more mature HDR games are
coming though so in due time this monitor will be great for gaming kind of
I mean it's a beautiful monitor but its 4K is capped at 60 HZ and its response
times at about 6 milliseconds are not
that competitive with the top gaming displays so then if you're a gamer who
needs a monitor today your money may be
better spent elsewhere and if it's HDR
you're after then hooking up your PC to
a giant 4K HDR TV for the same
price that might make a fair bit of sense so then is the up 201718 q a
solution looking for a problem no actually not at all unlike dellone 8K
monitor this one has some very real
applications today if you're a content
creator you might want to consider the investment wide coverage of multiple
gamuts gives you the flexibility to produce in whatever standard your
project demands the KVM switch is super
elegant not to mention very convenient
and compared to the pricing of professional grade calibrated displays
honestly you're not really paying that more for HDR and Dell's solid reputation
for monitor build quality and support if you're a Content consumer on the other
hand well it's back to the scurve we go right now I'd say we're
about and I'm going to say maybe wait for
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