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Get ready for high-contrast displays.
Today's high-definition displays pack in the pixels to provide breathtaking color and detail. But another display technology, called high dynamic range (HDR), can produce far higher contrast, correctly and vividly displaying details of both the brightest and darkest areas within the same scene.
Study in contrast: A high-dynamic-range display renders bright and dark regions of the same image with great clarity. An image of a castle (bottom) simulates the improvement over what is possible with a conventional display (top).
Credit: Erik Reinhard
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