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Hi, great site! I have a question regarding HDR. My apologies if this was covered in a previous...

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Hi, great site! I have a question regarding HDR. My apologies if this was covered in a previous review but I haven't found it. With OLED, HDR makes sense, you can per-pixel increase the brightness of highlights; however, for LCDs this confuses me. If, in the case of an edge lit LCD like the Q9, you can only brighten/dim the entire backlight (or large chunks of it at best with local dimming), how can you increase the brightness of highlights without increasing the whole scene brightness? It seems like that when brightening highlights, you would necessarily brighten "lowlights" and the rest of the picture, negating the benefit of HDR. Or are LCDs better at dealing with this than I am thinking? e.g. can you actually still have a decent black level in your real scene or 10% windows in the HDR test and are you actually achieving a better contrast ratio? I'm wondering if a metric like "HDR contrast ratio" at each window would be useful information? OLED, despite lower peak brightness, just seems like it would produce a much better HDR experience. Thanks!
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