The Meg 4K UHD (2018) - Blu-ray Forum

Geoff D · 12-30-2018, 05:24 PM

I tell you what though, thank god for Dolby Vision or, to be more politically correct/format agnostic lest we set mike off on a rant, thank god for dynamic metadata. If I watch The Meg in HDR10 using my go-to settings (which starts to clip at around 2000 nits worth of highlight information) then it looks nuked out to shit. That combined with the brightness still doesn't make me physically uncomfortable but I can certainly see (heh) where peoples are coming from with their "aiieeeeee my eyes!!" comments, it just looks wrong.

I've got another picture mode set to deliver 4000 nits worth of highlight information which is what I'd then revert to in situations like this, and even then it needed tuning down to about 5000 nits to capture everything that's in the highlights in certain scenes in The Meg! The problem with forcibly doing this of course is that it then greatly reduces the intended brightness curve by at least a third, and while this would actually be beneficial for some people it doesn't help if you're trying to objectively assess the brightness of an HDR source, and I don't just mean dem peak nits but also the average picture level e.g. it would make a dim disc look even dimmer. It also impacts colour volume, making the saturation less pronounced.

So, yeah: thank the maker for dynamic metadata because it allows the TV to balance colour volume, highlight retention, peak brightness and average brightness in the most optimal way. I still wave about my TV's HDR10 performance like it's god's gift to HDR and several respects it still is, but - as I always say - we're gonna get certain HDR content that kicks our TV's asses and sometimes there's not much you can do about it without drastically altering its intended look. Now, by that token not everything is graded as weirdly as The Meg so this isn't me throwing away a good couple of years' worth of HDR10 'reviews' on that basis, I stand by every didactic, long-winded and plain old arrogant word of it - but at times like this the benefits of dynamic metadata are so blindingly obvious you'd have to be a complete arse to ignore them.

12-30-2018, 05:24 PM	#11
Geoff D Blu-ray Emperor Top contributor Member since:Feb 2009 Location:Swanage, Engerland 4K collection:1348 Blu-ray collection:2525 Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:33	I tell you what though, thank god for Dolby Vision or, to be more politically correct/format agnostic lest we set mike off on a rant, thank god for dynamic metadata. If I watch The Meg in HDR10 using my go-to settings (which starts to clip at around 2000 nits worth of highlight information) then it looks nuked out to shit. That combined with the brightness still doesn't make me physically uncomfortable but I can certainly see (heh) where peoples are coming from with their "aiieeeeee my eyes!!" comments, it just looks wrong. I've got another picture mode set to deliver 4000 nits worth of highlight information which is what I'd then revert to in situations like this, and even then it needed tuning down to about 5000 nits to capture everything that's in the highlights in certain scenes in The Meg! The problem with forcibly doing this of course is that it then greatly reduces the intended brightness curve by at least a third, and while this would actually be beneficial for some people it doesn't help if you're trying to objectively assess the brightness of an HDR source, and I don't just mean dem peak nits but also the average picture level e.g. it would make a dim disc look even dimmer. It also impacts colour volume, making the saturation less pronounced. So, yeah: thank the maker for dynamic metadata because it allows the TV to balance colour volume, highlight retention, peak brightness and average brightness in the most optimal way. I still wave about my TV's HDR10 performance like it's god's gift to HDR and several respects it still is, but - as I always say - we're gonna get certain HDR content that kicks our TV's asses and sometimes there's not much you can do about it without drastically altering its intended look. Now, by that token not everything is graded as weirdly as The Meg so this isn't me throwing away a good couple of years' worth of HDR10 'reviews' on that basis, I stand by every didactic, long-winded and plain old arrogant word of it - but at times like this the benefits of dynamic metadata are so blindingly obvious you'd have to be a complete arse to ignore them.

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