Products · Pattern or everyday thing
HDR
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2020–2026), in 12 threads.
Every issue, all time, most people first
HDR media bypasses brightness and colour settings, confusing usersUnreviewed
20202026- Websites suddenly blind users with overly bright HDR content, causing headaches and forcing them to leave2026-08-22
- Brightness slider is unclear, user can't tell whether HDR is on or what the setting does2026-06-25
- HDR videos look bad on phones, monitors and computers, so the commenter avoids them2025-12-05
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 17 complaints
- Websites suddenly blind users with overly bright HDR content, causing headaches and forcing them to leave2026-08-22
- Brightness slider is unclear, user can't tell whether HDR is on or what the setting does2026-06-25
- HDR videos look bad on phones, monitors and computers, so the commenter avoids them2025-12-05
- Surrounding UI looks grey when HDR video plays outside fullscreen2025-12-05
- Exported HDR photos look posterized, grey, green and banded, so sharing them is unusable2025-11-23
- HDR media bypasses brightness and color settings, confusing users about how content appears2025-06-18
- Getting HDR to work requires many hoops: real display, calibration, and software that is hit or miss2025-06-18
- Consumer devices must guess wrong renderings because the HDR spec can't be fully implemented2025-06-15
- HDR software gives wrong brightness, gamma and saturation, making content look worse2025-05-15
- Partial-screen HDR makes surrounding whites look grey and is distracting, with no option to disable it2025-05-14
- HDR photos are blinding and forces constant brightness adjustments when scrolling2025-05-14
- Maximized windows look washed out and grey instead of white in HDR2025-05-14
- HDR content is blindingly bright and cannot be turned off globally2025-04-18
- HDR files exported from Lightroom or Nikon camera can't be opened or shared on iPhone2024-05-26
- Embedded HDR video makes the rest of the screen look dim2023-10-06
- HDR videos are much brighter than expected, annoying viewers2023-06-19
- Downloading the sample is harder than just searching YouTube for HDR videos2020-12-05