I Need a Home Theater PC... NOW! - NVIDIA RTX HDR

[Plouffe]

NVIDIA's latest feature allows you to watch SDR content in HDR, like old movies and shows that never got remastered. But upmapping isn't always easy, so have they gotten it right? Come check out RTX Video HDR and see for yourself.

 

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[mrtwonavels]

Now I finally have a reason to use my 2070 super 

[Thaldor]

I think this is pretty stupid for consumers.

Notice: For consumers.

 

As Plouffe stated, in bigger picture almost no one really cares if their TV is displaying "the correct" colors, they just care the image looks subjectively great. For them the calibrated natural HDR looks just F'ing boring, they want that pop of color and contrast, a bit sharpening and there's the perfect. The TV doesn't need complex and expensive AI systems to do that, <$20 ASIC that boosts saturation, contrast, adds a bit of sharpening and stuffs the content through 10-bit. encoder so the backlights/OLEDs know to adjust their brightness correctly.

Does it create image that will make the video aficionados cry over how beautifully natural it is? Absolutely not but 95% of the population will piss their pants over how great the image is.

 

This is kind of the same thing as the V-curve in headphones. It is something that over 90% of the population prefers and it's dirt cheap to make and no matter how much the <1% audiophiles cry about it, it just is what it is (also even audiophiles seem to hate actual monitor headphones with actual neutral output because it is what it is, flat as pancake and has less soul than stale bread, not very delightful). So, boost the bass and treble and there you have your <$100 headphones that, as long as they have good frequency range, sound great for most and you don't need to even do anything really expensive for that.

 

For professionals and video aficionados who want that natural HDR, a bit more development, more datasets and Nvidia might have something in their sleeve.

[wswartzendruber]

20:38 - "Converting to HDR on the local side so they don't have to send all that additional information."

 

With HEVC, at least, 10-bit HDR doesn't use an appreciably higher bitrate than SDR, unless you really have a lot going on. The increase is going to be negligible.

[Zodiark1593]

Would definitely love for a hypothetical RTX Shield to have a disc drive. We’ve a pretty substantial library of discs at home. 

[Motifator]

All you need is a mini PC for HTPC, lol. Make it passive so be it...

[HumdrumPenguin]

I was watching Jujutsu Kaizen with the feature turned on and I very much liked it.