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HDR displays
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2023–2026), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Full brightness for SDR content on HDR TVs needs hacksUnreviewed
20232026- Users aren't told that HDR switches to an absolute brightness scale, so behavior is confusing2026-06-27
- Must perform hacks to get full brightness range for SDR content on HDR TV2025-06-14
- Must manually toggle HDR on and off depending on content, otherwise SDR content looks wrong2023-10-06
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Users aren't told that HDR switches to an absolute brightness scale, so behavior is confusing2026-06-27
- Must perform hacks to get full brightness range for SDR content on HDR TV2025-06-14
- HDR content is hard to share; only iMessage works easily, elsewhere it breaks2024-09-05
- Must manually toggle HDR on and off depending on content, otherwise SDR content looks wrong2023-10-06