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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by nicolaslem on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @04:06AM (#38706720)
It is starting to be the default for new devices. I think that HDR is here to stay, not because it's ground breaking but because it is easy to implement with new display technologies like OLED or microLED. These technologies provide much better contrast and color reproduction, the HDR part is just the cherry on the top.

One nice side effect of HDR is that it forces the industry to tackle color management head first. This means going beyond sRGB as the default and often only option that had been the norm for decades.

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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by dfgfek on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:00AM (#38707310)
Millenia will pass before the cheapest monitors and Windows laptops people buy have HDR screens.

And by HDR I don't mean "LCD screens that have huge segments of backlighting that are made to shine more". I mean actual HDR like iPhones have.

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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by maccard on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @06:16AM (#38707401)
> Millenia will pass before the cheapest monitors and Windows laptops people buy have HDR screens.

People are still buying laptops with 1366x768 screens in 2023. People still buy things because they are the cheapest available with no concern for features.

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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by prmoustache on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @10:44AM (#38709894)
Most people buy computers because they need them, not because they want them so there is that.
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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by account42 on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @08:54AM (#38708692)
If you require the cheapest devices to support something then by that measure no technology really takes off until it is really ubiquitous, often never.

For phones, OLED is already in the mid-range market. It won't be that long until there are more HDR-capable screens than non-HDR screens.

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Re:An update on HDR and color management in KWin by pornel on Wednesday December 20, 2023 @11:31AM (#38710446)
Unfortunately, almost all LCD monitors that claim to support "HDR" aren't capable of displaying picture bright enough for HDR to make any meaningful difference. They support a digital signal labelled HDR, but actually just display washed-out standard-range image with an odd gamma curve.
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