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Old 09-20-2022, 08:15 PM   #25
Aleron Ives
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Originally Posted by mpeg2 View Post
There's also some marketing/education aspects here.
Yes, especially in the US, TV makers made huge profits during the transition to digital TV in 2009, and they started expecting people to replace their TVs every few years so they could keep profits up. When 3D didn't entice people to replace their TVs again, they switched to touting UHD, instead.

I'm honestly more interested in wide gamut than HDR. Is it possible to have one without the other? UHD BD should support both if your TV does, but I don't know if you get any choice over which ones are used.
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