HDMI 2.0a specification released

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Enables better image quality through High Dynamic Range (HDR) transmission.

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Read more.

This is why I won't be buying a 4K TV or new receiver until HDMI 2.1 or 2.2 is here!

is it me or is the picture on the left far more natural and better?

Oh great. HDR on our screens too. :censored:

The normal picture looks far more realistic and natural to me too.

A lot more detail in the picture on the right though,.

After reading about HDR it is certainly a good reason to wait for HDR enable 4K everything...I have been itching to get one of the cheap 4K TVs just to use as a monitor but have been waiting for the HDCP standard to be set. This shall stay my wallet hand for a few moments longer.

I think anything that makes the picture look more like what are eyes actually see is Better.

I agree the HDR image does look odd compared with what we have become accustomed to but real life has a lot more contrast than most TVs.

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Originally Posted by silent

is it me or is the picture on the left far more natural and better?

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Image on the right isn't HDR, it's the opposite - compressed dynamic range, just in a non-linear fashion so that you highlight details in shadow/highlights. It's a very poor representation of what HDR TV should be able to do, which is simply a much bigger range of brightness levels in the same scene. Funnily enough, you can't show it on a non-HDR screen ;)

Good Point! It's like when you see a big, shiny, new TV on your TV and go "that's got a much better picture than my TV!"

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Originally Posted by Gronich26

Good Point! It's like when you see a big, shiny, new TV on your TV and go "that's got a much better picture than my TV!"

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Or the adverts for Sky HD on SD channels... with the "looks how whizzy it looks" section... HD looks so amazing in SD.

Agreed, the left image looks more natural...the right image looks processed and unnatural.

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Originally Posted by kingpotnoodle

Or the adverts for Sky HD on SD channels... with the "looks how whizzy it looks" section... HD looks so amazing in SD.

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I remember the sky HD advert where it was football etc from a close shot in slow motion.

I just remember thinking it must take ages to watch stuff in HD (I am not that silly its a joke).

As others have said the above just looks like its had the dynamic range compressed, not what I want personally.

I bought £3000 HDMI cables so naturally I have this already on my current TV.

Hooray! Another iteration of the HDMI standard coming out when its predecessor has barely made it into actual products.

Does this mean that samsung's new SUHD tv no has 2.0a?