PlayStation 5 Reportedly Fails to Display SDR Content Correctly, Resulting in Black Crush

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The PlayStation 5 reportedly fails to display games that were originally mastered in Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) properly. This is according to Digital Foundry’s content creator for PC, Alexander Battaglia, who commented on one user’s experiences with capturing footage from Demon’s Souls with PS5’s HDR option turned off and clarified that the console actually has a display issue that results in black crush. Black crush is a problem in which shadow details and other darker portions of the image are lost.



PS5 is actually not displaying Original SDR content correctly – unfortunately. Does it with Backward Compatibility titles for sure. Could lead to black crush or other changes in reproducing the game’s colour or tone.It is not as dramatic as the limited vs full issue shown in the quoted tweet – but if you capture SDR on a PlayStation 4 Pro and compare it to...

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