HDR has been one of the main claims of today’s televisions for years. Showing itself with different standards, HDR has become one of the most sought after features in Smart TV. However, few people know what differences it can cause in the image compared to SDR content.

HDR is a system that changes the image to correct overexposure and underexposure, achieving greater dynamic range in lighter and darker areas. We’ve talked a few times at Xataka Home about such techniques, as well as techniques that rely on dynamic metadata to deliver a much more precise HDR. Between one of my most visited channels lately and this channel Can you clarify the difference between SDR and HDR a bit more? Creative Intent! on youtube.

Real comparisons between content in SDR and HDR

While navigating the Google platform, we came across a channel. upload only comparison videos between SDR and HDR content for Blu-ray versions of many movies. The example we give you in this article refers to the 2007 movie ‘Spider-Man 3’, which is a comparison between the 2012 and 2014 Blu-ray SDR releases, and the 2019 release to which it applies. HDR.

Thanks to a series of images taken from the movie, You can witness the clear difference we found in content in HDR.offers more contrast and balanced tones. Depending on the composition of the scene, the difference will be more or less clear.

It is worth noting that there are differences. they will be much more noticeable if we play the video on a monitor or television with HDR. However, the channel also offers an SDR version of the video for older screens.

Another example we encountered is the comparison of the SDR and HDR versions of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2’. As in the scene we left under these lines, especially when there is a clear difference in light between two objects, the difference is reflected here as well.

Such comparisons they are usually much more honest In most cases, it is more than collected by the manufacturers, as we can see the actual behavior of HDR in such content.

In this channel we can find many comparisons between HDR and SDR and the descriptions of the videos also take us to the IMDb page. we get technical information about the moviesuch as audio mix, cameras or formats used.