https://techplanet.today/feed/tag/hdr2024-01-15T14:34:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/2272450
Unveiling the Weighty Matter of Graphics Cards
For gamers, graphics cards are often at the top of the wishlist. However, a concern has surfaced – could a GPU be so heavy that it damages your motherboard? The worry stems from images circulating online of PCI Express slots torn from motherboards due to the weight of graphics cards. Some gamers fear their high-end GPU might collapse before their eyes.
The good news is that motherboard manufacturers are well aware of the weight of modern graphics cards. Slots are designed with card weight in mind. Older horror stories often involved more force than just the card's weight, such as mishandling during insertion or removal. Properly securing the card in...]]>
2024-01-15T14:34:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/2111968
But what exactly is HDR? And what’s the difference between HDR formats? From HDR10 to Dolby Vision, here’s everything you need to know about HDR.
What is HDR?
HDR stands for “High Dynamic Range”. It is a technology that produces images with a large perceptible difference between bright and dark regions. This capability achieves lifelike images and preserves precise details in lighting variations and gradations for realistically bright or dark pictures without subtle detail loss.
There are a number of different types of HDR that you’ll find on displays these days. The most...]]>
2023-05-17T02:30:03+00:00https://techplanet.today/122477
All the major streaming services, though, offer a fair amount in 4K. So, why is it so tough for a traditional TV to be in 4K?
Maybe we should answer this question with another question, who cares? Don't get me wrong. 4K is objectively better than standard HD, all other things being equal. But a huge reason we don't have 4K everywhere is because the traditional content providers simply don't think there's enough demand for it.
In fact, the CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group, which operates the second-largest number of TV stations in the United States, has called 4K an incremental benefit that's not a big driver for demand.
And although many of us tech lovers might cry foul over this take, there are lots of people out there that just don't see much of a difference, espe...]]>
2022-05-20T15:23:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/10269
So let's talk about what's new in the HDMI 2.1a spec. And as you may have gathered from the fact that it's called 2.1a instead of 2.2, the list of changes is rather short. In fact, there's only one new feature, and it's called source-based tone mapping.
That might sound like some kind of gimmick you'd pay extra for at a tanning salon, but it actually has to do with the way devices handle HDR. Tone mapping is the process of taking HDR signal and adjusting it to match the capabilities of whichever display you happen to be watching that content on.
You see, many HDR-capable TVs actually are not able to show an HDR image as it's originally mastered. Oftentimes the original video is mastered at 1,000 nits of brightness or even higher, but most consu...]]>
2022-02-19T13:44:00+00:00https://techplanet.today/7471
Diving right in for the first time iPhones are getting 5G connectivity and with a number of Android devices already boasting it, it would have looked pretty silly for the iPhone 12 series to not have it.
Apple's implementation does support millimeter wave, but only on US sold models. Then it's got support for the slower 5G standards across the board. So you should be covered regardless of what your carrier offers. Under the hood, there's a new system on chip as expected, the Apple A14 bionic.
Now it doesn't bring much in the way of new features, but you do get a pretty sizeable generational performance boost and interestingly, it's the first commercially available chip that I'm aware of on the five nanometer process from TSMC, which should...]]>
2020-10-28T05:24:03+00:00https://techplanet.today/7205
But that doesn't mean it's always a great idea to buy the cheapest, most bare bones cable either. So to find out what actually matters when buying an HDMI cable, we spoke to UGREEN, a manufacturer of HDMI cables, and we'd like to thank them as well as Philips AOC, and David Hsieh for his translation services.
So it turns out that using the correct material inside an HDMI cable, can make a big difference. But that doesn't mean that you should go and find cables with Platinum unobtainium alloy or whatever other nonsense. Cheaply made HDMI cable, sometimes use steel, which isn't particularly good conductor. Meaning it's something that you should gen...]]>
2020-06-19T18:34:47+00:00