What is HDR? You must figure it out before you choose an HDR monitor.

The consumer electronics market continues to pursue high picture quality and high emulation, and more and more PC monitors, TVs and screens are beginning to support HDR (High-Dynamic Range) technology, which enables consumers to obtain better contrast, brightness, and color accuracy performance compared to traditional SDR, and the currently released HDMI 2.1 standard has also added a series of new features, including Dynamic HDR.

I believe we have often heard that there are monitors that support the HDR (High Dynamic Range) standard, which can bring a better visual experience, in fact, the main HDR currently on the market is the open standard HDR-10 and the patented technology Dolby Vision which is mainly used in TVs, and now VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) has also announced their HDR certification specification: DisplayHDR, mainly for laptops and desktop monitors, the following are its main members, the development of the DisplayHDR standard gathered more than 20 chip, display panel, display, PC, system manufacturers are involved in the development of the relevant HDR standards.

These include Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Analogix, JDI, LG, LG Display, Samsung, AU Optronics, Innolux, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, MStar, Realtek, MegaChips, Portrait Displays, and many more (the association publishes updated information) (Website: https://www.anandtech.com)

What is HDR?

High dynamic range (HDR) is a dynamic range higher than usual. The term is often used in discussing display devices, photography, 3D rendering, and sound recording including digital imaging and digital audio production.
Source: Wikipedia.org

In the future, if you want to buy an HDR monitor, you can judge it based on the above three certification levels:

DisplayHDR 400 is the lowest end, requiring support for global dimming, a peak brightness of no less than 400nit, a global continuous brightness of no less than 320nit, ITU-R BT.709 color gamut (basically the same as sRGB) coverage of no less than 95%, and support for HDR-10.

DisplayHDR 600 is aimed at high-end monitors and notebooks and requires a screen with 10-bit processing capability, peak brightness of 600nit, continuous brightness of 350nit, the black and white brightness response time of no more than 8 fps, and color gamut coverage of 99% ITU-R BT.709, 90% DCI-P3 65.

The DisplayHDR 1000 is only available on professional displays, with a peak brightness of 1000nit and a continuous brightness of 600nit, and a significant increase in color gamma.

The advantage of HDR

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is undoubtedly the hot technology in the display field in recent years, and more and more monitors, TVs and screens are beginning to support HDR technology, which can bring better contrast, brightness, and colour accuracy than traditional SDR; HDR technology can increase the brightness range and improve the contrast between the brightest and darkest images, resulting in a wider range of colors, which in addition to significantly improving the greyscale, also brings blacker or whiter color effects.

It can be said that displays equipped with HDR technology can be improved in all aspects of sRGB, brightness, and color expression, and its impact on picture quality is very obvious; HDR technology has become a new highlight for TVs; unlike mobile phone HDR technology which simply increases exposure and pixels, TV HDR means that by controlling the degree of lightness and darkness in different areas of the TV, it can provide TV viewers with more dynamic range and image detail.

All in all, the picture quality improvement of HDR technology is intuitive. In recent years, many display manufacturers have equipped their products with HDR technology, which can bring high contrast ratio and excellent color performance, HDR technology will become a new highlight in the TV industry and display industry.