[Dylan16807]

I strongly doubt that the brightness to hurt your eyes is the same for 10% of the screen and 100% of the screen.

I am not suggesting eye hurting. The opposite really, I'm suggesting a curve that stays similarly comfortable at all sizes.

[mort96]

I don't want any one part of my screen to be a stupidly bright point light. It's not just the total amount of photons that matters.

[Dylan16807]

It is not just the total amount.

But it's not the brightest spot either.

It's in between.

[mort96]

I just don't want your "in between" "only hurt my eyes a little" solution. I don't see how that's so hard to understand. I set my brightness so that SDR FFFFFF is a comfortable max brightness. I don't understand why web content should be allowed to go brighter than that.

[Dylan16807]

I'm suggesting something that WON'T hurt your eyes. I don't see how that's so hard to understand.

You set a comfortable max brightness for the entire screen.

Comfortable max brightness for small parts of the screen is a different brightness. Comfortable. NO eye hurting.

[mort96]

It's still uncomfortable to have 10% of the screen get ridiculously bright.

[Dylan16807]

Yes, it's uncomfortable to have it get "ridiculously" bright.

But there's a level that is comfortable that is higher than what you set for FFFFFF.

And the comfortable level for 1% of the screen is even higher.

HDR could take advantage of that to make more realistic scenes without making you uncomfortable. If it was coded right to respect your limits. Which is probably isn't right now. But it could be.