Samsung Confirms HDR10+ Gaming Support for Select 2022 Gaming Monitors and 4K/8K TVs

[Tsing]

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Samsung has confirmed that some of its 2022 4K/8K TVs and gaming monitors will boast support for HDR10+ Gaming, the latest addition to the original high-dynamic-range standard that aims for greater image quality via higher peak brightness levels and wider color palettes.



Unlike HDR10, which enjoys widespread support but is limited to a static level, HDR10+ leverages dynamic metadata to adjust color and brightness frame by frame, resulting in a more accurate and stunning picture. HDR10+ remains the same as its predecessor in terms of color depth and range of colors, however, which measure at 10-bit and 1.07 billion, respectively.



“Samsung’s 2022 TV and gaming monitor lineup will support the HDR10+ GAMING standard by allowing automated HDR calibration that provides stunning picture quality to meet game developers’ demand,” Samsung wrote in a...

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[Zarathustra]

So many HDR standards. So difficult to keep up with.

A good review of what the different standards are and how they compare would be awesome.

My screen has DisplayHDR 600, and I'm honestly not that impressed. It must be a pretty low end HDR certification.

 

[Brian_B]

My screen has DisplayHDR 600, and I'm honestly not that impressed. It must be a pretty low end HDR certification.

My layman's take on HDR monitor specs:

HDR400 -- it will accept a HDR signal. It won't actually do anything with it, but you can pretend.

HDR600 -- accepts a signal, and makes the screen a bit brighter

HDR1000 -- Might actually look something like HDR

And that's completely different from HDR10, Dolby Vision, etc - which are formats for encoding HDR signals.

 

[Brian_B]

The biggest issue with the standards - the numbers (400/600/1000) talk about peak brightness. Which is great, except that most monitors can't actually go all the way to 0 for darkness (at least with uniform consistency)

An OLED HDR600 will likely look a heck of a lot better than an IPS HDR1000 with poor zoning and light bleed.

 

[DrezKill]

So many HDR standards. So difficult to keep up with.

A good review of what the different standards are and how they compare would be awesome.

I second this.

In my personal experience, all the best HDR I've seen has been on Samsung LCD HDTVs and LG OLEDs, not on any monitors, or lesser TVs like Vizios. But it's not like my experience has been particularly expansive. The HDR on my current monitor is sh1t, but I certainly did not buy it for its HDR capability. Anyways, I can't keep up with all this HDR sh1t. Don't want HDR turning into USB 3.X.