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YouTube has added support for high dynamic range (HDR) videos. The site also partnered with a few content creators to make... four videos. More could be on the way since YouTube has outfitted "YouTube Spaces" in LA and NYC with the necessary hardware.
HDR displays have a higher peak brightness and a lower minimum brightness than traditional displays, creating a larger contrast ratio. HDR standards also call for 10 or 12-bit color depth rather than 8-bit.
YouTube today announced that its platform now supports high dynamic range, or HDR, video. HDR essentially allows screens with the right hardware specifications to display a more accurate and realistic range of whites and blacks, as well as a wider range of colors. Alongside 4K resolution, HDR technology is the other big selling point of new TVs and one of the key benefits touted by Microsoft and Sony for the latest versions of their respective gaming consoles. However, there's a critical lack of HDR content out there to watch, and a hodgepodge of different hardware and software requirements that make it difficult to know where and how to access those videos.
The rollout comes days before the launch of the PS4 Pro, which also adds support for HDR but won't have an updated YouTube app until later.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @07:48AM
Now if only the long term unemployed displaced and discouraged former workforce could afford bread.
Soon they will be offered a life-long VR in a capsule with IV feeding. No need to ever rise and walk again. (Nor ability to do so.) You can pack billions of humans this way, with minimum expenses. Given that they won't breed for real, this is a very manageable task. Beats the old-fashioned mass extermination by war, famine and pestilence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 10 2016, @04:45PM
It'll be the dream of any politician: a whole country to run without any people messing up opinion polls and elections.