Displayhdr makes hdr technology affordable for all budgets

HDR technology is here to stay, the only drawback it has today is that its requirements are too high for all users to enjoy it. This ends with the announcement of the new DisplayHDR standard that makes this technology more affordable than ever.

DisplayHDR greatly relaxes HDR requirements

VESA intends to bring the benefits of HDR technology to all users, for this it has announced the first open standard with the name of DisplayHDR. Within this standard there are three distinct performance levels DisplayHDR 400, DisplayHDR 600 and DisplayHDR 1000.

This means that the previous minimum requirement of 1000 nits of brightness is lowered to 400 nits, which means that a large number of monitors currently available on the market can already be sold as compatible with HDR technology. Logically, the level of performance will be much lower since miracles do not exist and a 400-nit monitor will not happen to be a marvel of HDR overnight.

Final specifications of HDMI 2.1, 10K resolution and dynamic HDR

There are many monitors that are sold as HDR compatible when in fact what they do is use a more saturated color palette to give the impression that they are capable of improving image quality, which is why we will have to be more attentive to when buying a monitor with HDR if we do not want to be haunted.

HDR technology is attracting a lot of attention and is becoming a powerful marketing tool in a similar way to what we are seeing with 4K resolution that many products boast that are not really capable of working with it.

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