Well, it's certainly quite effective at giving me a migraine. This is especially true when watching HDR football content where everything is so bright. Even with movies, highlights can look way too bright and be hard to look at. I really don't need to be dazzled by my TV and be forced to squint a bit at the brightness. Turning down the TV brightness doesn't help as then the whole picture looks off, too muted. Also, the colours don't look as natural as with SDR, but are more vivid.
The core problem, according to how the video explains it, is that with SDR all colours are a ratio of white, ie maximum brightness, so the picture looks correct regardless of your brightness setting, within limits. However, with HDR, it specifies certain absolute values which doesn't sound right to me. It's also dependent on the content creator using HDR properly in the first place. Get that wrong and it will never look right.
Regarding that migraine, when watching the footie, I can mitigate this by setting the Sky Q box to 8-bit mode from 10-bit mode which gets rid of the HDR. Note that HDR is used together with UHD picture quality here, never HD. However, the picture then looks a bit dim and low contrast, so it's not a perfect solution, but it's watchable and certainly restful on the eye. The difference becomes quite obvious when I compare it to the HD broadcast, where the brightness and overall picture balance looks correct, but at the expense of clarity, which is quite noticeably worse than UHD and never actually looked that great, more like a sharper SD resolution.
The core problem, according to how the video explains it, is that with SDR all colours are a ratio of white, ie maximum brightness, so the picture looks correct regardless of your brightness setting, within limits. However, with HDR, it specifies certain absolute values which doesn't sound right to me. It's also dependent on the content creator using HDR properly in the first place. Get that wrong and it will never look right.
Regarding that migraine, when watching the footie, I can mitigate this by setting the Sky Q box to 8-bit mode from 10-bit mode which gets rid of the HDR. Note that HDR is used together with UHD picture quality here, never HD. However, the picture then looks a bit dim and low contrast, so it's not a perfect solution, but it's watchable and certainly restful on the eye. The difference becomes quite obvious when I compare it to the HD broadcast, where the brightness and overall picture balance looks correct, but at the expense of clarity, which is quite noticeably worse than UHD and never actually looked that great, more like a sharper SD resolution.
