Do you get 1600nits with any HDR video or are there any requirements ?

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Do u get the maximum brightness of 1600nits just by playing any random HDR video ,or does it have to be Dolby vision or sth? I have seen people on this sub saying that they usually get 1000 nits max

Besides,what would u use to play an .mkv movie on your Mac? Iina doesn't work well ,QuickTime doesn't support it (tho if someone could help me again with the command line that I need to get the mkv into an MP4 container I wouldn't say no)

 

[aevan]

Do u get the maximum brightness of 1600nits just by playing any random HDR video ,or does it have to be Dolby vision or sth?

It doesn’t have to be Dolby Vision, it can be HDR10 or HLG, however, the video itself needs to be mastered to have 1600 or higher nit peaks (it depends on the creators, really). And this is usually reserved for small highlights. But even if it doesn’t hit the maximum, just having this capability means there is enough “space” to show all the details.

Generally speaking, HDR content should look great.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

It doesn’t have to be Dolby Vision, it can be HDR10 or HLG, however, the video itself needs to be mastered to have 1600 or higher nit peaks (it depends on the creators, really). And this is usually reserved for small highlights. But even if it doesn’t hit the maximum, just having this capability means there is enough “space” to show all the details.

Generally speaking, HDR content should look great.

Hmm true,I'm wondering how many movies are mastered at such high brightness.i recall I've read many are filmed at up to 4000 nits nowadays but I'm not too sure
(As an aside ,do you know if YouTube supports over 1000 nits ? Hdr1600 and over ? )
I have no doubts HDR looks great,however I was counting more on the brightness for HDR ,since ,in spite of the good FALD ,the displays still have very few zones as compared to oled ,meaning less control over each part of the screen,as well as less contrast for the content that's in each area (for example if in one zone there is both dark details and bright parts ) .as oled can typically reach 800nits (and up to 1500 on phones ) ,I was counting on the extremely high Brightness to counterbalance the lack of contrast and shadow details ,in order to gain a bette (yet probably different) HDR experience.what say you?