Samsung lets you turn off annoyingly bright HDR content in all apps with One UI 7

HDR content looks amazing, until it burns your retinas at 11pm in a dark room. Annoyingly, the ability to turn...

HDR content looks amazing, until it burns your retinas at 11pm in a dark room. Annoyingly, the ability to turn...

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Wait... Isn't pure white the same intensity in any case? Why doesn't it all scale? Any docs on this?
- That's what HDR fundamentally is - you're not restricted to the constant standard range, but have a high dynamic range. Values can go above "pure white".
  
  Makes no sense to me.
  
  I always understood HDR as having more subdivisions between 0 and 100.
  
  Why would anyone design a phone screen that won't go to 100% brightness with SDR?
TikTok is one of the worst offenders, you're scrolling at night and suddenly somebody posts a HDR video shot from their phone and the screen flash bangs you