If your games and streaming movies look a little dark on your monitor, colors are washed out, or text characters don’t look as sharp or as easy to read as they should be, don’t assume your only ...

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The KDE team has provided a development update on the upcoming KDE Plasma 4, highlighting a new HDR calibration wizard along with various bug fixes. In the latest This Week in Plasma, developers have ...

Boland Communications’ Mike Boland: Production teams are creating content for viewers who increasingly have the screen quality to notice when something is off. The post Why Monitor Calibration Matters ...

[UPDATE: Since first publishing this article, Xbox Beta Ring users have told me that the HDR set up feature is available for them too. It’s not just for Alpha Skip Ahead ring as I originally believed.

Out of the box, televisions can look either slightly dim (thanks to energy-efficient presets) or wildly blown-out and garish (in Store or Vivid modes). A few minutes of poking through your TV's menus ...

For video pros or color aficionados who want to see films the way they were intended, HDR's extra-wide color gamut is a godsend. However, calibrating HDR TVs is a tedious pain, forcing you to futz ...

Fantastic game and stunning technical achievement though Red Dead Redemption 2 is in so many ways, it does fall short in a couple of key areas (as discussed in detail in this previous article). First, ...

More and more PC gamers have been snapping up high refresh rate displays, some of which have HDR capabilities. If you’re one of those lucky folks, good news! Your PC gaming experience will soon get ...

Ever since the first Spears and Munsil Test High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray edition came out, it has been our go to calibration disc for setting color, black level and various other picture ...