Sky HDR

[chrismuk]

@Super+Anthony  The pop-up is on my LG C9 TV, Sony might not do the same thing on their TV's.

[Super+Anthony]

@chrismuk Thank you

 any Sony owners out there?

[Anonymous]

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@Rhonny wrote:

For those with Samsung TVs, when HDR kicks in the backlight goes up to maximum. That's how you can tell. So look at what your backlight is on when watching 'normal' TV, then see what is when you watch HDR content. Mine jumps from 7 to 20. It doesn't say HDR anywhere (unless you're watching Amazon Prime).

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  @Rhonny  Thanks for that tip, I gave it a try. My Samsung must be a bit different from yours as the Backlight setting goes from 0 - 50. On normal TV it is at 35, when watching the lemurs programme it jumped to 50.

  PQ is very good but I'm kind of used to it now having seen a lot of HDR content on Netflix, Amazon & Disney+.

[bob1234]

@Super+Anthony  I don't get any clue with my Sony apart from the picture looking different and more vivid.

[Anonymous]

  If Sky isn't putting any information on the screen that a programme is available in HDR, how are we going to know which programmes are available?

[gems+151]

@Piesarus  if your watching Netflix etc through the TV apps you don't need deep colour enabled I would definitely double check to make sure that deep colour is enabled and check your box again to make sure it is compatible as I too have the C9 and get the HLG HDR pop up in the top right of the screen

[Teepot]

Asked Sky about HDR today and this was reply i recieved , will wait and see if this happens

  Sky sent you a Direct Message.  

    Thanks for confirming Colin. In the coming months we will be able to support a box upgrade if you have an older 2TB UHD box (model ID 32B0xx). In the meantime you can continue to enjoy all our great content in Ultra HD Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). ^    

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[rscott]

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@Anonymous wrote:

  If Sky isn't putting any information on the screen that a programme is available in HDR, how are we going to know which programmes are available?

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I'd expect that will change once there's a meaningful amount of HDR content available and the box replacement programme is further developed. Not much point drawing attention to it when there's not a process in place yet to replace the v1 boxes.

[Jamie+Simms]

Merv69- Going forward Sky will tag HDR content in the description and synopsis for 

[simon194]

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@gems+151 wrote:

@Piesarus  if your watching Netflix etc through the TV apps you don't need deep colour enabled I would definitely double check to make sure that deep colour is enabled and check your box again to make sure it is compatible as I too have the C9 and get the HLG HDR pop up in the top right of the screen

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On LG sets, if Deep Colour isn't set to on and an HDMI port detects an HDR signal it puts up a banner stating the setting has been changed and an option to restart the TV to lock in the change.

[gems+151]

@simon194  I get that but I was asking if he's definitely done it as you can also click no which may have been done by accident and through the native TV apps deep colour doesn't need to be activated so if he's been watching hdr through the native apps then he might assume deep colour is on but not actually on. If that makes sense lol

[rozel]

@bob1234  Regarding your post 1172, did you see my post 1177 ?  Would like to ascertain if our niggles are related please.  Cheers

[Piesarus]

My fault people. I had not set the Lemur programme to download in UHD format. The C9 is now displaying the HDR/HLG icon. I find the content a tad overly saturated for my tastes. 

[Rhonny]

@Piesarus

You should be able to adjust the picture slightly to suit you, and these settings should stay for next time HDR kicks in. 

[winstong1234]

If your tv does not support HLG then I guess it won't work.  Mine does so just downloading a doc to see what happens.  Because of my internet I will get bak to you next week.