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Starminalast Friday at 10:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

That's intended behavior for monitor limited in peak brightness


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nodesocketlast Friday at 10:20 PM

I don't think so. Windows 11 has a HDR calibration utility that allows you to adjust brightness and HDR and it maintains blacks being perfectly black (especially with my OLED). When I enable HDR on macOS whatever settings I try, including adjusting brightness and contrast on the monitor the blacks look completely washed out and grey. HDR DOES seem to work correctly on macOS but only if you use Mac displays.

massprolast Friday at 10:22 PM

That’s the statement I found last time I went down this rabbit hole, that they don’t have physical brightness info for third-party displays so it just can’t be done any better. But I don’t understand how this can lead to making the black point terrible. Black should be the one color every emissive colorspace agrees on.

kmeisthaxlast Friday at 11:26 PM

Actually, intended behavior in general. Even on their own displays the UI looks grey when HDR is playing.

Which, personally, I find to be extremely ugly and gross and I do not understand why they thought this was a good idea.