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Dolby Vision Is Truly Amazing On The iPhone X’s OLED

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For those who think there is no obvious difference in the screen between HD Retina and OLED, think again. The iPhone X’s screen pops into life when watching movies, especially ones with bright lights like ‘Pacific Rim’ (I’m in the movie too, you know).

Dolby Vision truly brings those blinding brights in this little screen and when I went back watching on my iPad Pro, it was no comparison. It’s like someone adjusted the lights down to dim on the iPad. You will need shades just to shield your eyes from those bright lights on the OLED!

I know that watching movies is not really something we always use the iPhone for but you have to really try doing so to appreciate the dark blacks, bright whites and blinding bright lights this tech produces.
 
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torana355 said:
Its the contrast from the deep blacks that makes colours really pop. Welcome to OLED 🙂
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For sure! 🙂 And HDR truly is amazing...I never really appreciated it before but it makes a lot of difference. Imagine 3D and HDR combined.
 
Anyone have any links to things that can be viewed in hdr on the X? Besides buying/renting from itunes.
 
note235 said:
Anyone have any links to things that can be viewed in hdr on the X? Besides buying/renting from itunes.
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I think this is as close as you can get to see it without buying or renting from iTunes. Make sure you play it directly from Youtube in 4K.

 
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Happy that Apple went with OLED. This will be a big boost for the OLED industry exposing the world how amazing OLED screens are!!
 
donster28 said:
I think this is as close as you can get to see it without buying or renting from iTunes. Make sure you play it directly from Youtube in 4K.

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I tried that through the youttube app. The max res is 1440 not 4K, and it really isnt DV. The DV label on the movie is just stamped on the video, it doesn't trigger a real DV icon. It's like the Apple TV 4K, it cant do HDR via youtube.
 
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Packers1958 said:
I tried that through the youttube app. The max res is 1440 not 4K, and it really isnt DV. The DV label on the movie is just stamped on the video, it doesn't trigger a real DV icon.
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Oh ok, sorry. I really don’t know where else to look. Are some of the related videos good?
 
Packers1958 said:
The problem with Apple, it doesn't accept the youtube HDR encodes, just like the ATV 4K.
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I know what you mean. Much like not being able to play 4K 60 in Safari...have to use Chrome for it.

I can attest though, that you really get DV on iTunes movies that support it.
 
donster28 said:
I know what you mean. Much like not being able to play 4K 60 in Safari...have to use Chrome for it.

I can attest though, that you really get DV on iTunes movies that support it.
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I have the ATV 4K with my LG OLED TV, and itunes DV HDR looks impressive.
 
fred98tj said:
Huh ? It’s been around for years. Samsung’s used it for years more so we’re not “exposing the world no amazing OLED screens are”. 😛
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honestly in the world of tv's I think this move to oled from apple will bring oled prices down with tv's too.
So yes it is good that such a large company finally has oled screens.
 
Samsung’s phones have had oled screens for years now. I highly doubt apple using them also is going to effect the price of oled TVs.
Huge difference in making 6” screens vs 50,60 etc inch screens
 
Any demos that truly work with HDR or dolby vision on the X? I dont think the youtube 4k HDR vidiid are really triggering HDR on the X. They do on my LG oled tv
 
I checked out Mad Max Fury Road. It looked absurd. Bad. Maybe the most beautiful looking movie of all time in non-HDR, but the HDR was not at all natural. Fire and other bright elements looked painted over the movie like when History channel paints old black and white film into color.

HDR is very much in its infancy and I think we’re going to see a lot of bad conversions early on. Just like 3D. I’m sure it’s better for movies that are heavily CGI to begin with (Fury Road is mostly practical effects).

The problem is that cameras and post workflows are just now coming around to HDR. Movies have been shot at higher bit depth forever, so HDR can definitely improve color detail, especially in shadows, highlights, and gradients, but they have not been shot/finished for this blinding contrast with flaming hot highlights. Cameras and projectors just didn’t have the ability to do that. So movies like Fury Road look slightly better throughout thanks to the bit depth, but then BAM cartoon fire that looks painted over the movie at far higher brightness. But it will get better.

If it becomes the standard, I really hope filmmakers go easy on the contrast range. This is going to be the problem with super dynamic movie audio all over again. High dynamic range (difference between quietest and loudest parts) in movies is technically superior but it’s also the reason we have to constantly turn the volume up or down during a movie we are watching at night as it goes between dialogue and action scenes. Now we will have a high dynamic range with brightness, with outdoor scenes that can blind us and indoor scenes where we have to squint to see anything.

I’ve been noticing that in video games even on my non-HDR TV a lot more now, especially the last Uncharted games. I’m now riding the brightness slider like a volume control. That used to happen a lot because it was hard to see dark games, but now I’m seeing bright sections that are blinding and start to hurt my eyes. Uncharted flips between both scenarios. I couldn’t imagine playing that in HDR.
 
QquegChristian said:
I checked out Mad Max Fury Road. It looked absurd. Bad. Maybe the most beautiful looking movie of all time in non-HDR, but the HDR was not at all natural. Fire and other bright elements looked painted over the movie like when History channel paints old black and white film into color.

HDR is very much in its infancy and I think we’re going to see a lot of bad conversions early on. Just like 3D. I’m sure it’s better for movies that are heavily CGI to begin with (Fury Road is mostly practical effects).

The problem is that cameras and post workflows are just now coming around to HDR. Movies have been shot at higher bit depth forever, so HDR can definitely improve color detail, especially in shadows, highlights, and gradients, but they have not been shot/finished for this blinding contrast with flaming hot highlights. Cameras and projectors just didn’t have the ability to do that. So movies like Fury Road look slightly better throughout thanks to the bit depth, but then BAM cartoon fire that looks painted over the movie at far higher brightness. But it will get better.

If it becomes the standard, I really hope filmmakers go easy on the contrast range. This is going to be the problem with super dynamic movie audio all over again. High dynamic range (difference between quietest and loudest parts) in movies is technically superior but it’s also the reason we have to constantly turn the volume up or down during a movie we are watching at night as it goes between dialogue and action scenes. Now we will have a high dynamic range with brightness, with outdoor scenes that can blind us and indoor scenes where we have to squint to see anything.

I’ve been noticing that in video games even on my non-HDR TV a lot more now, especially the last Uncharted games. I’m now riding the brightness slider like a volume control. That used to happen a lot because it was hard to see dark games, but now I’m seeing bright sections that are blinding and start to hurt my eyes. Uncharted flips between both scenarios. I couldn’t imagine playing that in HDR.
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Uncharted looks amazing on my 4K HDR OLED, one of the biggest and best changes I’ve found in the move over wasn’t the increased resolution (which is awesome don’t get me wrong) but HDR steals the show.

As a side note if you’re using a non-HDR TV then you aren’t getting the HDR signal. So it’s more to do with how they designed the game to look than anything else.
 
TrueBlou said:
Uncharted looks amazing on my 4K HDR OLED, one of the biggest and best changes I’ve found in the move over wasn’t the increased resolution (which is awesome don’t get me wrong) but HDR steals the show.

As a side note if you’re using a non-HDR TV then you aren’t getting the HDR signal. So it’s more to do with how they designed the game to look than anything else.
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Oh I know I’m not getting HDR, was just saying that I’m already finding some games blinding! Naughty Dog has some truly impressive dynamic range, even with the standard signal. In general, I do think HDR is most suited to gaming and live TV/news. But I’m an old school movie snob/filmmaker who thinks movies should look like an escape. A bit dreamy and better looking than real life. I was kicking and screaming when The Hobbit came out in 48fps!
 
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