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thanks for watching tech quickie click the subscribe button then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any future videos recently we did an episode explaining the different standards available for HDR or high dynamic range TVs and displays which you should check out over here if you haven't but come right back because if you find yourself drawn in by all those HDR marketing promises of brilliant lifelike images what else should you consider before you buy and why is HDR such a big deal anyway simply put dynamic range is the difference between the darkest dark and the brightest white that your display can show having a high dynamic range will improve both contrast and color reproduction saving you from scenes that look overly muted or washed out so your first step in buying an HDR display should be to check what standards it supports such as HDR 10 Dolby vision and HL g against what kind of content that you're going to be watching and you're gonna want to cross-reference that against the standards that the content that you'll be watching utilize also if you're into that sort of thing you'll need to ensure that your favorite streaming service will provide your device with an HDR feed at all for example Amazon Prime video supports HD are on certain TVs and phones but not on pcs which isn't to say that you'll automatically have a wonderful experience if you go with a Dolby vision TV to match your impressive Dolby vision blu-ray collection another specification you should pay very close attention to is it displays brightness rating in nits since HDR is predicated on having a Y brightness range you'll want a display that can get sufficiently bright for you to see the HDR effect as intended so many of the nicer HDR displays are rated at a thousand nits peak brightness which is ideal because that's what HDR 10 videos are mastered at now I'd say you could get away with a TV in the 600 to 700 nits range if you're on a budget but beware cheaper models below 500 nits most of these really can't do HDR justice with the exception of course of ohlet's these don't go as high in terms of their peak brightness but they go much lower in terms of their maximum level of black so you're still getting a very wide range all right then so you've done your homework you've picked the right display and you've made sure that your devices like your blu-ray players and your PC's support the HDR standard you want which for a PC means you've got HDMI 2.0 a or a DisplayPort 1.4 port as well as a GPU that's no older than Nvidia's GTX 10 series AMD Tsar X 400 series or Intel's eighth generation Core gyu HD graphics is there any additional set up to do well you probably don't need new HDMI cables but you will of course want to make sure that any HDR functionality is switched on for all devices in the chain sometimes this can actually be buried deep within a menu under a different name like deep color on LG's displays which I guess isn't entirely inaccurate but if you're trying to use HDR on a PC things can get even Messier you'll want to go into your GPU settings and make sure that you switch the bit-depth to 10-bit since Ted of 8 this will ensure that your computer will use the wider color gamut we discussed previously then you'll need to double check that the HDR and advanced color settings under display properties and the stream HDR video options under video playback are both enabled you'll also want to make sure that you have the latest graphics drivers installed and that you're running the windows 10 full creators update at minimum because even with a recent GPU HDR support is non-existent on older drivers and windows builds prior to 1709 this is especially frustrating if you've put together an expensive computer to play the growing number of HDR games on offer and even more so if you're a Linux user which perfectly illustrates I guess that while we've tried to give you the best advice we can in today's episode HDR is still a fledgling technology with even more new standards trying to gain a foothold so pay close attention to what changes are taking place if you're buying a new TV a year or two down the line or if all of this is too much you can just go outside and look at the trees it's like HDR gaming but with even better graphics speaking of even better today's sponsor will make you even better are you interested in computer science check out brilliant a problem-solving website that teaches you to think like a computer scientist instead of just passively listening to lectures with brilliant you get to master concepts by solving fun and challenging problems and they provide the tools and the framework that you need in order to do it brilliance thought-provoking content is based around breaking up complexities into bite-sized understandable chunks and will lead you from curiosity to mastery and you'll be in the company of over five and a half million members who share your curiosity and love for 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