A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you've found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.
Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn't able to play Nex Machina on PC.
It's basically HDR (the 10 bit display kind, not the Half Life 2 kind), but with more metadata.
What I find is that if you have a Dolby Vision capable TV, it will be already calibrated to something that looks good, rather than you having to fuck around telling it how bright "paper" is or some shit.
HDR displays are surprisingly tricky, even without Dolby Vision or HDR10+. Especially if you're mixing SDR and HDR content on a display. I tried it a few years ago on Windows and it was flat out awful. I think they've fixed a lot of it up now with Win 11, but even they took their damn time over it.
MS do sell Atmos (and DTS:X) support as an individually licensed thing, threough Dolby Access and DTS Sound Unbound on their store.
I do wonder how it could work in Linux, as well as getting things like commercial streaming services in 4K.
Presumably some sort of black box hardware would be needed (for the super top secret Widevine L1 shit), the manufacturer of that can pay the Dolby fees, and then just some basic open source code to call the hardware features.
If all of them went into their respective places of work tomorrow, locked themselves in and then all died of a gas leak, I wonder how long it would be before anyone would actually notice.
Much of the workings of a country are run by civil servants, etc who would still be there. They'd just get no new orders. People would still get paid. Shit would still get done.
Ugh, cycle lanes. Get rid of sidewalks too. Make more room for our oversized child mashers! What are these things? Buildings? What are they for? They're just getting in the way of more road! Get rid of it all!
I won't be happy until we've just got 4 million square miles of pure asphalt!
You're absolutely right, that's just me not wanting it for Jellyfin on those grounds.
For mainstream users, I would assume that Linux being unable to run streaming services at full quality would discount it as a serious contender as well.
A lot of monitors have particularly bad HDR, the max brightness being so low you might as well not bother. And as you've found out some games are really washed out for some reason. Like to the point where the game is almost entirely grey.
Worse, some games actually detect the capability in the monitor and turn it back on, and for that reason I wasn't able to play Nex Machina on PC.