4K HDR on Netflix / Amazon / iTunes - Nothing on the radar for Macs yet?

[EugW]

Back in 2016, I had hoped that High Sierra 10.13 would bring 4K HDR DRM support in 2017 to 2017 Macs. That didn't happen. So far I see nothing for Mojave 10.14 yet either in 2018.

Is there any hope, anything on the radar that suggests that DRM'd 4K HDR could come to the Mac this year?

 

[aevan]

Back in 2016, I had hoped that High Sierra 10.13 would bring 4K HDR DRM support in 2017 to 2017 Macs. That didn't happen. So far I see nothing for Mojave 10.14 yet either in 2018.

Is there any hope, anything on the radar that suggests that DRM'd 4K HDR could come to the Mac this year?

I suppose MBP/iMac 600 nit screens could do HDR.... don’t think Apple will add this, but it would be cool.

As for DRM, what do you mean? Macs can play Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, DVDs, etc.

 

[EugW]

I suppose MBP/iMac 600 nit screens could do HDR.... don’t think Apple will add this, but it would be cool.

As for DRM, what do you mean? Macs can play Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, DVDs, etc.

Not at 4K.

 

[aevan]

Not at 4K.

Ah, sorry, didn't get that.

 

[SketchyClown]

I have a 5K iMac, but there won't be any HDR, as the screen must be able to display it, and Apple has only started to roll out HDR screens with the new iPhone OLED screens. HDR is an end-to-end thing, so the video must be done in HDR, the player must support HDR output and the display must also be a HDR display, which currently rules out any Mac computer.

I would expect that it's in the pipeline.

 

[EugW]

I have a 5K iMac, but there won't be any HDR, as the screen must be able to display it, and Apple has only started to roll out HDR screens with the new iPhone OLED screens. HDR is an end-to-end thing, so the video must be done in HDR, the player must support HDR output and the display must also be a HDR display, which currently rules out any Mac computer.

I would expect that it's in the pipeline.

Well they can give us WCG and increased dynamic range I guess. It wouldn’t be true HDR but it would be an improvement over SDR. And then there’s also 4K. The 2017 models already have the decoders and the DRM support in hardware.

 

[SoyCapitanSoyCapitan]

I have a 5K iMac, but there won't be any HDR, as the screen must be able to display it, and Apple has only started to roll out HDR screens with the new iPhone OLED screens. HDR is an end-to-end thing, so the video must be done in HDR, the player must support HDR output and the display must also be a HDR display, which currently rules out any Mac computer.

I would expect that it's in the pipeline.

We on the forums check videos on 4kmedia.org

HDR10 videos playback fine in QuickTime and look as good or better than my PC (in HDR mode) does on a HDR screen.

Squeezing HDR into the P2 gamut doesn’t hurt much or at all. It depends on the content. A MBP screen is not that far off from 4K.

Netflix HDR films streaming in Safari look great on a Mac anyway, very close to native HDR.

So if it was possibly to play HDR movies from iTunes Store today it would be perfectly fine. I would watch movies from there instead of elsewhere.