HDMI 2.0a specification released

[HEXUS]

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

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[shaithis]

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

[silent]

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

[this_is_gav]

Oh great. HDR on our screens too.

[Ulti]

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

[shaithis]

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

[Gronich26]

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.

[Gronich26]

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.

[kalniel]

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

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

[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!"

[kingpotnoodle]

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!"

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

[smilertoo]

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

[Percy1983]

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

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.

[simonpreston]

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

[azrael-]

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

[chuck4100]

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