Today I received my new iPad Pro 12.9 (2018). After installing Netflix, I noticed that many movies and series have a Dolby Vision Logo.
Does this mean that they are also playing in HDR? Is there a way to check this?
When Netflix detects a device that is HDR capable, it sends a HDR/Dolby Vision signal. HOWEVER - the fact that a device accepts the HDR signal doesn't mean much in practice. Also, the HDR effect greatly depends on the source too, I see the most effect in HDR demo videos, in regular Netflix shows it's less noticeable even on my OLED TV.
At the end of the day, the iPad has a 600nit screen with wide-color so it is semi-HDR capable. It doesn't have local dimming or peak brightness: for a true HDR experience you need a 1000 nit LCD with local dimming or an OLED with a 540 nit screen.
HDR is nice, but a good screen will display even SDR content nicely and iPad Pro has a very nice screen, so, true HDR or not, Netflix experience is good
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I agree. The fact that OLEDS aren't able to pass 1000nits yet, is for me a reason not to buy them. The other reason is of course the potential screen burn.
This is, basically, a misconception - don't want to get into it that much, but on
every blind test in dark rooms, 800 nit OLEDs win against 1500 nit LCDs because of human perception and psychology. A 700 nit highlight sitting in perfect dark area will look perceptually brighter than a 1500 nit on a LCD, even with local dimming. Nits are like megapixels - they are deceiving. In a dark room, an OLED will
look like the brightest TV on the market (for this reason, UHD Premium specification is 1000 nits peak
on LCD,
but 540 nit on OLED).
If you had a 1500 nit OLED, you would most likely lower the brightness on it. So, the nit thing is not a reason to avoid OLEDs. Burn-in, again, depends on what you do on your TV, but in regular content (even gaming) it's not really an issue. For Netflix and movies - it's exacly 0 issue. To use it as a computer monitor? Better go for LCD.
But, getting sidetracked here
1. iPad Pro has a great screen, but HDR will not be very noticeable
2. For the best HDR experience, you need an OLED screen. Even on an iPhone X, HDR looks better than on an iPad Pro.
This is why Apple no longer markets iPad Pro screen as HDR, but continues to market XS screens as HDR even though both achieve the same 600 nits peak brightness.
Basically, the only LCDs that can display HDR effectively are the very high-end LCDs with FALD. Other than that, it's OLED town.
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Current OLED TVs barely make it till 1000nits, which is the minimum for HDR1000 (also known as full HDR).
Just to emphasize it further, 1000 nits is not the minimum for Ultra HD Premium (and this one is known as "full HDR"), it is the minimum
for LCD screens. For OLEDs it's 540 nits, as I explained above. HDR1000 is a marketing term that Samsung uses to promote their LCD TVs, nothing else.
