Since there is no content currently available that I know of in the Technicolor or Philips formats, then that leaves HDR10 as the only viable HDR format that can be calibrated.įor just under a year now, I have been using the Samsung 2016 HDR10 Reference UHD Blu-ray test disc authored by Florian Friedrich of AVTop in Munich Germany. It should be noted that, at least on LG displays, when you feed Dolby Vision content to the set, it locks you out of all of the calibration features on the TV making calibration impossible. HDR10 and Dolby Vision content are available from Amazon, Vudu, Netflix and other streaming services, but the image quality is not even close to what you get with HDR10 on UHD Blu-ray. The question then is how do we calibrate our displays for HDR and can we calibrate a given display separately for all of the different HDR formats HDR10, Dolby Vision, and the Technicolor/Philips format, which are all competing HDR formats?Īs of this writing, HDR10 is the only HDR format on UHD Blu-rays, which is the highest quality HDR source we currently have due to its far greater bandwidth over streaming HDR content. It is, in my humble opinion, the biggest leap in picture quality and display performance the industry has seen since the introduction of HDTV broadcasts in late 1998, which slowly but surely replaced the 480i SD pictures we had been used to since the inception of television.īeyond the UHD (3840 x 2160) pixel resolution, HDR UHD content brings us far more noticeable and therefore more important improvements such as the specular highlight details in bright objects, the additional shadow detail in dark areas of the picture, and the wider Digital Cinema or P3 color gamut. High Dynamic Range video (HDR) is the big buzz in the home theater industry at the moment.

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