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It is true that at present Amlogic does have tone & gamut mapping and it sort of works. I said "sort of" because these are Amlogic's proprietary implementation. There are no in force standards for dynamic range or color space conversions (BT.2020 to BT.709). They are still being finalized by WP 6C (ITU).
As for the Shield, Android Oreo has native gamut & tone mapping APIs. So, it is just a matter of time before Shield gets it.
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To answer your question Koying, as to why get the releases now ?
Simply put, OLED screens are currently not at a point where I feel the need to spend £3-4k on one. There are still a few issues that I would like to see sorted before I spend that sort of cash. So in the meantime I bought the best LED 4K TV I could. 3-4 Months after I bought it.... HDR arrives.....
Now since I plan on buying an OLED, maybe in the next year or so, when issues have hopefully been sorted, I don't want to replace my TV now for an HDR model. That just seems silly.
Playing 4k HDR content with the proper HDR to SDR conversion still results in a far FAR better picture. This can be proved simply using MadVR and a PC plugged into the TV. The color is still far more vibrant and has far more depth that any regular BluRay.
So therefore, rather than replace the TV at this point, the best solution in order to play the best quality right now is to replace the media player/software.
And since I love Kodi/SPMC i really want to keep using it. I am on other forums and it's actually a more popular request/need/want in a player/software than you might think. Most people have simply opted to use a PC and MadVR though. But most would love to have another solution.
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Earwig
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Err.... No it's not.
A cable simply passes info from one place to the next. A piece of software that takes the HDR information and converts the colors into something a non HDR display can handle is entirely different. From what I understand, most TV's can display a much wider color gamut than is actually available on a regular BluRay disc, this tonemapping, or converting of the HDR meta simply uses a bit more of that ability to display the color.
Whilst it's not displaying HDR, you still get a deeper picture, more detail in dark areas etc. You should really check it out for yourself. You'd be quite suprised I would imagine ;-)
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2017-10-11, 17:10
(This post was last modified: 2017-10-11, 17:12 by wsnipex.)
kodi uses RGB internally, so it will not show a wider color gamut than that.
edit: granted, blacker then black and wider then white is possible with this, which is generally not available on standard bluray
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Earwig
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Oh, this is now beginning to get kinda hopeful !
I have noticed more and more threads on more and more forums I visit. One actually popped up on the nVidia forums the other day also.
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Now let the experts rule the world. Keep up the good work guys.
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