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3D and 4K were nothing! It's all about HDR now!
Netflix has confirmed it has begun its rollout of high dynamic range content on its TV and film streaming service. HDR videos display millions more shades of colour and extra levels of brightness than normal ones, allowing images to look more realistic.
However, to view them members will need a new type of TV or monitor and a premium-priced Netflix subscription. Some HDR content had already been available via Amazon's rival Instant Video service. Ultra-high-definition 4K Blu-ray discs - which launched in the UK earlier this week - also include HDR data.
Netflix's support follows January's creation of a scheme defining the HDR standards a television set must meet to be marketed with an "Ultra HD Premium" sticker. [...] The US firm recommends its members have at least a 25 megabits per second connection to view them.
High-dynamic-range imaging at Wikipedia.
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday April 17 2016, @09:32AM
Everything I had a couple of years ago was NEC Multisync. I ended up donating them to Goodwill after I purchased several VISIO Full HD TV's ( 1080p ) at WalMart, and convinced myself that they were reliable enough to use. Not only that, the VISIO's had VGA inputs, which were very important to me.
I still have not got a warm comfy feeling for HDMI, as I still think of it as a DRM mechanism, that may one day arbitrarily begin enforcing someone's else's wish in me. I KNOW the analog VGA is reliable, I do not have near that much confidence that if I plug in a HDMI device, that it will work. For a while there, I has lost confidence that even NTSC could be counted on to work, until I found out how macrovision worked and saw how to regenerate the sync. So I have not acquired anything that demands HDMI streams. My laptop will deliver HDMI, but before I plunked money down for it, I made sure it would also put out VGA just in case some rightsholder gets the hots for messing my stuff up after I have paid for it - thinking I could use it.
I see the new stuff, and it sure looks tempting, but I am also very concerned about giving up my control of it. I would much rather watch a movie in black and white, NTSC, than to have the latest ultra-high-definition presentation forcing ads on me every three minutes. I feel the ad-men have told me loud and clear just how they feel about my enjoyment of a presentation every time I watch OTA TV. Its a game with them - just how far can they push me with relentless ads before I simply give up.
So, while even 4K looks good, I am afraid of HDMI and too ignorant at this time to know how to work around the irritants rightsholders may force onto me.
When I know how to undo what the handshaking businessmen have done to force me to waste time with unwanted ads - then I may get on board, but as for now, I feel I am only being manipulated to spend MY money to put THEIR noose on my neck. I see their setup, and I have other things I would rather spend my dollars on.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]