Article: 4K Blu-ray vs Blu-ray Reveals HDR Is Too Dim for Daytime

[bruceames]

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/news/4k-vs-201604104279.htm

Pretty interesting read.

Personally I'm not having this issue and I usually watch with ambient lighting because my main TV is in the living room. My HDR settings on the 940C are standard except that I bumped the color up from 50 to 65. At night I lower the gamma from 0 to -1 or -2 (depending on the movie) and the black level (brightness) from 50 to 47.

An option they don't mention in the article is adjusting the picture settings on the Samsung player itself. Dynamic mode bumps up the luminosity quite a bit from standard mode, so maybe they didn't do that. In any case, I feel the overall luminance on my UHD viewing is about the same as on regular Blu-ray. That's the misconception that many people have about HDR. They think it means a brighter overall picture, like watching in vivid mode, but it's really about having a higher range of luminance while the average brightness stays the same.