Especially with monitors. I am so sick of every monitor with Vesa HDR-400 claiming they're an "HDR" monitor. I'm sorry, but that standard is garbage. It's so bad it's meaningless.
Not only is that a pathetic amount of brightness, but the local dimming required is just awful. You can have a screen with a whopping 4 zones that react terribly and slap an HDR label on it.
HDR-600 is barely any better, frankly.
I use an LG OLED TV as a monitor for work (and a game here and there), 4k 120Hz and I'm more than happy with the brightness in HDR content. In fact, it's kind of just at the edge of being too bright for me... given the distance.
That's a huge improvement compared to a lot of the garbage HDR 400 rated LCD monitors.
Trying to play HDR content on a regular SDR screen is a mess.
If you rip an HDR version of a movie:
- VLC does nothing. It shows it as so dark it's unwatchable
- IINA shows it as brightness comparable to an SDR version of the movie, but with a weird green tint
- QuickTime is weirdly in-between, brighter than VLC but not as bright as an SDR version
- Infuse got fixed this year so that it plays HDR content to visually match the SDR version of the same content on a SDR screen (the only player I've found that can on Macs)
And if you want to convert your file in ffmpeg, good luck. I still haven't found the magic settings that reverses whatever entertainment studios are doing to translate their SDR into HDR. (The magic settings that Infuse has somehow figured out.) There's no flag or setting for it -- you have to input a bunch of custom values.
ffmpeg -hide_banner -y -probesize 100M -i "$file" -map 0:v:0 -c:v h264_nvenc -x264-params b_pyramid=2:ref=4:vbv-maxrate=30000:vbv-bufsize=15000 -refs 4
-crf 17 -preset:v fast -profile:v high -b_strategy 2 -rc-lookahead 900 -level 4.1 -pix_fmt yuv420p -color_range 1 -colorspace 1 -color_primaries bt709 -color_trc bt709 -subq 10 -vf zscale=tin=smpte2084:min=bt2020nc:pin=bt2020:rin=tv:t=smpte2084:m=bt2020nc:p=bt2020:r=tv,zscale=t=linear,format=gbrpf32le,zscale=p=bt709,tonemap=tonemap=hable:desat=0,zscale=t=bt709:m=bt709:r=tv,format=yuv420p,zscale=s=1280x720 -c:a copy output.mkv