HDR10 Media Profile, more commonly known as '
HDR10
'', is an open

high-dynamic-range video High dynamic range (HDR), also known as wide dynamic range, extended dynamic range, or expanded dynamic range, is a signal with a higher dynamic range than usual. The term is often used in discussing the dynamic ranges of images, videos, audio or ...

(HDR) standard announced on 27 August 2015, by the Consumer Electronics Association. It is the most widespread HDR format. HDR10 is not

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with SDR. It includes

HDR static metadata High-dynamic-range television (HDR-TV) is a technology that uses high dynamic range (HDR) to improve the quality of display signals. It is contrasted with the retroactively-named standard dynamic range (SDR). HDR changes the way the luminance a ...

but not dynamic metadata. PQ10 refers to an HDR10 format which does not include any metadata.

Technical details

HDR10 is defined as: * EOTF: SMPTE ST 2084 ( PQ) * Bit depth: 10 bit * Color primaries: ITU-R BT.2020 (identical to BT.2100 primaries) * Static metadata: SMPTE ST 2086 (mastering display color volume), MaxFALL (maximum frame-average light level), and MaxCLL (maximum content light level) * Color sub-sampling: 4:2:0 (for compressed video sources) PQ10 refers to an HDR format that uses PQ, 10-bit and Rec. 2100 color primaries without having any metadata. HDR10 is technically limited to a maximum of 10,000 nits peak brightness, however common HDR10 contents are mastered with peak brightness from 1,000 to 4,000 nits. HDR10 is not backwards compatible with SDR displays. On HDR10 displays that have lower color volume than the HDR10 content (for example lower peak brightness capability), the HDR10 metadata gives information to help adjust the content. However, the metadata is static (remain the same for the entire video) and does not tell how the content should be adjusted. Thus, the decision is up to the display and the creative intents might not be preserved. Competing formats to HDR10 are

Dolby Vision Dolby Vision is a set of technologies developed by Dolby Laboratories for high dynamic range (HDR) video. It covers content creation, distribution, and playback. It includes dynamic metadata that define the aspect ratio and adjust the picture ...

and

HDR10+ HDR10+ is a High-dynamic-range video, high dynamic range (HDR) video technology that adds HDR dynamic metadata, dynamic metadata to HDR10 source files. The dynamic metadata are used to adjust and optimize each frame of the HDR video to the consume ...

(which do provide dynamic metadata, allowing to preserve the creative intents on each display and on a scene by scene or frame by frame basis), and also HLG (which provides some degree of backward compatibility with SDR).

Adoption

HDR10 is supported by a wide variety of companies, which include monitor and TV manufacturers such as Dell, LG,

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, Sharp, VU, Sony, and Vizio, as well as

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and

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which support HDR10 on their

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and

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platforms, respectively.

Hardware

* TV * Audio-video interfaces * Smartphones displays * Smartphones camera * Digital camera * Mobile SoC *Game consoles

* Ultra HD Blu-ray * Streaming services

Software

* Media player * Color grading

References

{{Dynamic range color representation Standards High dynamic range

Technical details

Adoption

Hardware

Contents

Software

See also

References