It's how you access and interact with it that's a lot different.įirst, some basic background. To an extent, the tech works in much the same way on televisions as it does on the growing category of HDR-ready business, content-creation, entertainment, and gaming monitors we'll be talking about here. Here in this particular primer, we'll be concentrating on HDR for PCs and its evolving implementation. For a full explanation of what HDR is, where it comes from, and its major rivals in the market, from the point of view of the world of televisions, check out our expert breakdown of the subject by my PCMag colleague Will Greenwald. It has the same intention on both platforms-boosting display brightness and enhancing color-but in one case (with TVs and consumer electronics devices like game consoles) it's easy to enable, and in the other (with PCs) it's, shall we say, a work in progress.Įnabling HDR is usually seamless when it comes to its use on TVs and with game consoles. HDR is a thing in both the consumer electronics world, and the computer one. But do you actually need it? Also, if you plan on upgrading to an HDR-capable panel of your own, how does it work on the latest Windows, and what else do you need? Read on for a primer on all things HDR, from a PC perspective. If you bought a new desktop PC monitor in the last couple of years, you may have access to the joys of HDR, and not even know it. But HDR has been operating in something of a stealth mode on the computing side, with its implementation in Windows rather uneven until recently, and no good single source of HDR-compliant content. Over the past few years, it has started to make its way into desktop-PC monitors, and graphics cards have supported it for some time now. HDR is a color spec that started gaining traction in the home theater market a few years back. Maybe you even spotted it on the box or in the menus of the latest TV you bought.
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