I don't like hdr

which film - you should expect to watch Fury Road wearing sunglasses .. it's one of the few mastered at 4K nits.
... some of the adaptive LED car lights come close though.
 
HDR and WCG are the two biggest and most noticeable benefits of UHD, so not a gimmick at all in my book. The resolution though, on a TV, meh. 1080p res would look about the same.

Apart from the extra brightness, HDR and WCG gives me out of the box what I've been doing with the calibration of customer's 720p and 1080p displays for the past 10+ years: Better colour detail, good shadow and highlight detail.
 
Love HDR myself. Very noticeable for me the difference, being mixed use TV HDR games in particular are different when playing with HDR on Vs off.
 
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I can as the brightness of my 65" OLED also hurt my eyes when I first upgraded from a dimmer 50" plasma till I got used to it
When your eyes are not used too looking at a bright 65" TV in a blacked out room

Most people no watch there TV in a pitch black room like I do
 
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Normal sd and hd is fine, I have energy saving off, contrast about 65, peak brightness on, oled light about 40, all other processing disabled except true film or whatever it's called

However put the hdr disc in, oled is at 100, peak brightness high, dynamic mode mapping on and arrrgh retinas
 
If you don't like it then simply turn it off. HDR shouldn't be much different from SDR outside of highlights though unless it's the difference in gamma you're not liking. HDR uses a gamma curve like BT.1886 on SDR, if you use the old power laws like 2.2, 2.4 etc in SDR mode then you'll get more clipping.
 
Coming from a plasma it bothered me for around a week but you get use to it.

HDR and WCG are definitely not a gimmick.

Watching Seven Worlds, One Planet on iplayer looks amazing.
 
Yet people still say OLED is crap for brightness, LCD is better for HDR lel.......... It isn't all about what nits are down on that spec sheet folks.....

Get an OLED in your own environment and people will quickly realise that all those claims about brightness sucking are complete BS in the end. Best of all, you don't get halo'ing/blooming.

Personally I love HDR, next best thing to OLED panel tech for improving IQ and giving that extra depth to certain films. Yes, certain scenes can be stupidly bright but it gives that nice overwhelming factor of sheer brightness when it is really important for setting up scenes i.e. that film on netflix Annihilation at the end when Natalie Portman looks into the centre or even little things like the infinity stones in avengers, magic spells with the wands in Harry Potter, torches in complete darkness etc. etc. etc. are all great showcases of why HDR is superb.
 
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