Do you consume HDR content? Google Chrome for Windows 10 now offers support for viewing video with HDR

HDR is one of the improvements that we have seen coming to our equipment in recent times. And no, we are not only talking about televisions, perhaps the segment that enjoys the greatest when it comes to boasting image quality. HDR also reaches _smartphones_ and monitors but also to different applications that little by little offer compatibility with High Dynamic Range

Talking about HDR is doing it with different options Dolby Vision, which requires special _hardware_ but is more powerful, the new and exclusive HDR10+ , HLG or what is the same Hybrid Low Gamma and the most widespread although not so powerful HDR10.And it is the latter that is supported by a large part of the devices and applications, to which Google Chrome for Windows 10 is now added.

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And it is that the browser of the big G now allows you to work with video in HDR within Windows 10 A piece of news that has been given to know through the Google Blog. In this way, if we play in Chrome any video that has HDR how it improves, we will be able to appreciate a higher image quality."

The colors with HDR look more vivid, more intense, mainly due to the higher contrast we found and a greater presence of colors, since HDR expands the color gamut of the screen. The objective of HDR is to obtain a greater contrast between dark and bright colors, something that is more than noticeable when we check the difference between images that do not use this technology and those that, on the contrary, do include it.

This is how Chrome for Windows 10 sees an improvement that we already saw on Android devices a year ago. And in the same way, it joins Netflix, which already offers support for viewing content with HDR on computers with Windows 10.

To be able to use HDR in Chrome you must have the latest version of on your computer and above all have a screen ( either monitor or TV) that supports HDR. In addition, to enjoy HDR, the contents must have been generated from the beginning in such a way that they are capable of retaining this additional information.

Source | Google Blog In Xataka SmartHome | No 4K, the future of televisions is called HDR and we'll explain what it consists of