4K Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads

[steel_breeze]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep, the players ignore the DV completely when outputting converted SDR, you're entirely at the mercy of the player's own conversion being applied to the HDR10 layer.

Although steel_breeze on here is adamant that his OPPO folds in the enhancement layer when outputting 1080p SDR, but I can't force such a situation on my setup.

Indeed! On my 1080p projector with 4K HDR discs downconverted via my Oppo 203, I do SEEM to be reaping the benefit of the DolbyVision layer. It's particularly evident on such titles as Shout's Halloween and Halloween II. I do not see the badly encoded mush on the former, and I do not see the infamous titty glitch on the latter. And I've looked.

[Geoff D]

To add to that, it may be that when connected to an actual 1080p SDR setup it's doing something different, whereas I can't make my 4K HDR force the same conditions.

[aladdin123]

Originally Posted by Geoff D

Yep, the players ignore the DV completely when outputting converted SDR, you're entirely at the mercy of the player's own conversion being applied to the HDR10 layer.

That's a pity. It would be great if it actually used the instructions of the 100 nits trim pass to convert to SDR.