Joe Kane prefers SDR over HDR

[Geoff D]

Originally Posted by scorpiontail60

He's not the only one. I'm seeing too many examples where Hollywood seems to think that HDR is just a "let's make everything super bright and throw the TV into a store display 'torch mode'

So then the end result is that the HDR version ends up being this distracting version with oversaturated colors and lost detail. If I wanted my video to look like that then I wouldn't have taken the time to calibrate my display's colors and brightness, contrast, etc. levels and keep it in a standard/movie mode instead of in the overly bright and oversaturated mode it ships with by default and is used to 'wow' people looking at store displays.

Sorry dudette, I've gotta disagree. On my set the colour is richer and more deeply saturated but not overly saturated, and instead of lost detail I'm seeing quite the opposite: more range at both the upper AND lower end of the video scale. There's more of dat old-fashioned spatial resolution too.

IIRC aren't you rocking the Samsung player? Is it going into an HDR set or an SDR display?