Video Displays - the good, bad, ugly, calibration standards, content development, & enthusiast hw

Not exactly. Colors are only half the story, the other half is nits - a 1000 of them to be precise. I would pull a wild guess and say that not the nits, but rather the local-dimming would be of most importance to get the best result (not without the gamut of course). Anyway, it would be EXACTLY like it was with HD - HD Ready (poor man's HD, or we-weren't-quite-there-yet), FullHD (the real deal), UHD (the new stuff)... So, we already have HDR Ready (I haven't checked how all TV manufacturers list them) sets, but we are yet to see the proper HDR sets. HDR is possible with current tech (after all that's how they decided how to standardize it), but you really have to go balls-to-the-wall - IGZO RGB LED 10bit IPS. Why I think so? I have aSi RGB LED 10bit IPS and I'm @85% of Rec.2020 (basis for HDR) with 210 nits, and we all know that IGZO lets more light out (and mine is a laptop panel, so "a bit" limited when it comes to amount of LEDs in there). There's one benefit of having all of these Ready/Full/Ultra stuff - I might be HDR Ready with a 2009 panel, which is 16:10 at that

 

You are referring to HDR-10. There is also a Dolby standard. I mentioned this in the first couple posts actually. The Dolby standard is 12-bit color and 4,000 nit, whereas the HDR-10 is 10-12 bit color and 1,000-4,000 nit. But, to achieve High Dynamic Range, both standards are trying to achieve REC.2020. This encompasses Adobe RGB and DCI-P3.

Also, 2 or 3 sets last year supported HDR-10, but this year is when that will flourish. Because Dolby has such a high standard, it may lose (only one display qualifies). Also, if you are concerned on blacks, instead of local area dimming, OLED achieves perfect black because of orientation of the pixels. I'm also looking forward to the advancement of q-dot displays...

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Yes, I was referring the HDR-10, since I'm expecting it to be the more widespread standard i.e. the "HD Ready" equivalent. I probably missed the HDR-10 sets, quite likely because they are OLED (correct?) and I don't like OLED. The blue is still an issue, they try to compensate making it as big as the other two combined (which are not symmetric to each other as well), which results in not real 4K. Well that's of course my view on the matter. Don't get me wrong I HATE LCD, I think that it is fundamentally flawed technology and would love to be gone for good, but so far nothing else is there yet to replace it. Waiting for proper q-dot displays as well, which are not just q-dot "filters" as it was/is in the few sets released so far. Also for the longest time I hope for CNT-FED, but it's really unlikely to happen.