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by stavros 1097 days ago
But this only tells me that some monitors can show more colors than others. If you made a monitor that can show more colors, does it matter what you call it? SDR or HDR, it can still show more colors than other monitors.
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The idea is that "full red" should always be about the same brightness (user controlled, so "same"). Not "red" on an SDR screen and "iris burning bright red" on a HDR screen. Essentially, you want to extend your color parameter space to give the iris-burning range new names so that SDR and HDR images can both be displayed sensibly.