A COLORFUL YEAR AHEAD

When it comes to HDR PC monitors, not all implementations are equal. But it’s not all bad news. Even mediocre HDR brings improved color performance. Strictly speaking, high dynamic range doesn’t automatically imply greater color fidelity. Instead, it’s about the contrast between the brightest and darkest elements of an image. However, in practice, HDR standards typically make requirements of a display in terms of color space coverage and color fidelity. Take VESA’s DisplayHDR standard. Even lowly DisplayHDR 400 demands 95 percent coverage of the Rec.709 color space (the standard used for HDTVs), 10-bit per channel signal processing, and native 8-bit color rendering. Step up to DisplayHDR 600, and 99 percent of Rec.709 is required, plus 90 percent of the more demanding DCI-P3 color space, the standard for professional digital cinema.…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2020

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