Can someone explain the tone mapping variations?

[4kUltraBD]

Hello all,

As you can see in my signature, I have a budget 4K tv. It’s a 2018 4 series TCL.

Last night I was watching a YouTube review of the Hisense H9F, and the reviewer was using Godzilla KotM to demonstrate how that TV will clip bright highlights, therefore losing details with certain HDR content.

I decided to take a look at what my set was doing with these highlights, and much to my surprise, it didn’t clip them at all.

I’m not sure why my el cheapo TV is capable of displaying these highlights without clipping them, when a much more lauded set will clip them.

My guess comes down to two different things.

1. My TVs tone mapping sort of compresses the information on the disc to squeeze it into the available nits. Or,

2. My TV simply doesn’t have the nits available to blow out the highlights. I’m very aware that my TV has low nits, as it doesn’t get bright enough to properly display HDR highlights as the director intended, but I would assume that would only exacerbate the clipping issues. However, my set doesn’t seem to be clipping them at all. I can still see the details as I’m supposed to (they just aren’t super bright compared to the rest of the screen).

I hope all this makes sense.