High dynamic range, or HDR, gives video producers an expanded range of colors and brightness to display their videos. From a standards perspective, it’s the journey from Rec. 709 video to Rec. 2020, ...

Sure, HDR (aka high dynamic range) is better than SDR (standard dynamic range, a term we didn’t even need until we had HDR), but why? SDR is regular television—it can produce a maximum luminance level ...

Rec 709 did not use monochromatic primaries; blue in Rec 709 does not correspond to any specific wavelength, but to a color that has a lot of blue and a small amount of red and green.

For me, high dynamic range (HDR) video is a much more exciting development than 3D or resolutions greater than 4K. When properly filmed, graded, and viewed on an HDR monitor, viewing so much detail in ...