You’ll find high dynamic range at every price point now, and that’s made the technology’s strengths, differences, and pitfalls abundantly clear.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is the big buzzword in TVs right now, with vendors adding support for HDR content and pasting the acronym all over their packaging and advertising. But the fact is, a TV’s ability to decode and render HDR content doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll see an improvement in image quality. The “you get what you pay for” axiom comes into play here: Poorly implemented HDR, typically caused by less-expensive TVs being outfitted with insufficient technology, can make HDR content less appealing.

What is HDR?

High dynamic range simply means there’s a greater difference in lumens (a unit of measure of brightness, to grossly oversimplify) between the darkest hue on the TV’s screen and the brightest. Many less-expensive TVs simply can’t conjure up that difference.
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