[planede]

I think one possibly underused utility of HDR is to have more saturated bright colors in various contexts. I would love a more saturated light blue color for text that is normally available in sRGB, just because #0000ff is too dark and I would like to just crank up its brightness instead of mixing in green and red. Think syntax highlighting or terminal colors.

[Asooka]

What you're describing is a more intense (brighter, higher energy) blue, not a more saturated one. For more saturated colours, you need different RGB primaries than the ones defined in sRGB. The DCI-P3 colourspace used in HDR displays is exactly that, offering something halfway between sRGB and Adobe RGB. Of course it pales in comparison to filmic colour spaces like ACEScg, which can represent almost the entire visible gamut.

[planede]

Thanks! Maybe I didn't express myself clearly, but what I meant is more saturated "light blue" than what's available in sRGB, with the same brightness. For me #0000ff doesn't qualify as "light blue", so the point of comparison would be something like #aaaaff.

[Asooka]

If you're using a DCI-P3 (wide-gamut HDR) display, then #0000ff (or #aaaaff) in that display's colour space will be emitted as more saturated blue light than what an sRGB display is capable of. I am not sure if you will perceive them as exactly equally bright, brightness is subjective and depends on the reaction of your retina to the light hitting it, which is why #0000ff (blue) appears darker than #00ff00 (green), however the objective energy of the emitted light should be equal between displays of different gamuts, i.e. #ff0000, #00ff00, #0000ff should all result in the same amount of light being emitted in every correctly calibrated display regardless of the RGB primaries (aka gamut) it uses. The whole colour space topic is pretty deep, if you want to learn more about it and how colours are represented and converted between spaces, I encourage you to go and check out https://www.colour-science.org/ and linked resources.

[zokier]

> I think one possibly underused utility of HDR is to have more saturated bright colors in various contexts.

Isn't that the sole purpose of HDR!?

[planede]

No, I don't think so, as the article demonstrates too. A brighter than #ffffff white is not in any way a saturated color.

You might be thinking of high gamut displays?

[yonatan8070]

I think planede is thinking about expanding the "various contexts" from just videos to general computer color

[Savely]

I thought it’s purpose is for me to feel the sunlight looking at my summer photos in December.

[LeifCarrotson]

Mixing in green and red is equivalent to brightening #0000FF with added white. Try #1AFFFF, for example, it's a magnificently bright light blue. You've not muddied it with brown as you would have by adding an equal amount of green paint and a tenth of red paint; RGB illumination color spaces don't work that way.

[planede]

It still makes it less saturated though and makes it pale blue instead of what it could have been by just really cranking up the light intensity behind that blue subpixel.