HDR Need I worry about "Dolby vision" and "Ultra Hd premium" etc...?

[cardey88]

I'm currently looking at getting a new TV and i prefer the Samsung I'm looking at (KS9000 55") however I've read Samsung and Sony are only backing 1 specific format of HDR, were as LG are playing it safe and supporting both so I'm also looking at the LG 55UH950V. But I do prefer the Samsung but I most definitely don't want to be caught out and not be able to play certain discs in the future with the money I'm spending I'm trying to future proof a bit without breaking the bank too much. So I'm asking if anybody is clued up on the HDR format war or if it is a format war at all between dolby vision and HDR10? Or will they happily co-exist? Am I safe with all future UHD content if I go for the Samsung?
Any info would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

 

[photonboy]

http://www.techhive.com/article/3074897/consumer-electronics/dolby-vision-versus-hdr-10-tv-a-format-war-and-more.html

"You might also see some TVs advertised as “HDR enabled,” “HDR compatible,” or such. This means only that they can recognize and process HDR content; at least the baseline for HDR that the industry currently has in place. It does not mean that they have the color saturation, color accuracy, brightness, or contrast to realize the full intent of HDR content or come anywhere close to it; hence the wishy-washy marketing terms."

*It doesn't sound like we have have this sorted out yet.

From what I understand you may need an OLED display to even properly display the color range, and even then it's no guarantee you'll have the proper HDR support.

QUANTUM DOT:
This is an improved LCD panel. It basically coats the LED backlight to produce specific frequencies from the backlight AFAIK. This allow the front LCD panel to tighten up filtering of R, G, B and thus produce deeper black levels. Possibly 5000:1.

So I suppose QD might be good enough to do HDR fairly well if the rest of the video processing etc is capable.

 

[photonboy]

The KS9000 looks like a pretty good HDTV.

If you go back to the article:
"Summing that all up, you can’t lose buying a Dolby Vision TV, but you only lose the Dolby Vision if you buy HDR-10. It’s too early to say about the final standard."

So you do meet the HDR-10 specification, and should be able to properly convert HDR media.

You'll never have the "best" picture possible without OLED but it's going to be very impressive. HDR media will look better than the same quality HDTV without HDR processing capability.