One thing I'm jealous of as a Windows user is that HDR "just works" in the Apple ecosystem.
I was just watching a YouTube video describing how to edit HDR videos in DaVinci Resolve, and step #1 was basically: "Get a Mac".
There is simply no monitor equivalent to the Apple Pro Display XDR available from any other vendor, short of the ludicrously expensive Sony mastering monitors that are made to order.
There are no 4K OLED HDR monitors that can hit 1,000 nits, for example. Meanwhile my local electronics store has an entire row of TVs with that spec! There are 6K and 8K monitors... but they don't do HDR, or do it so badly that it's actually making things worse.
Even if there was proper HDR display for PCs, or if I simply forked over $5K for the Apple XDR monitor... it wouldn't work. Not in practice, not for video editing or for photography.
There's something fundamentally broken with the entire Windows and Linux ecosystems that it has been a decade of widespread HDR support everywhere else, but in the PC world it's just crickets chirping and wolves howling in the distance.
I was just watching a YouTube video describing how to edit HDR videos in DaVinci Resolve, and step #1 was basically: "Get a Mac".
There is simply no monitor equivalent to the Apple Pro Display XDR available from any other vendor, short of the ludicrously expensive Sony mastering monitors that are made to order.
There are no 4K OLED HDR monitors that can hit 1,000 nits, for example. Meanwhile my local electronics store has an entire row of TVs with that spec! There are 6K and 8K monitors... but they don't do HDR, or do it so badly that it's actually making things worse.
Even if there was proper HDR display for PCs, or if I simply forked over $5K for the Apple XDR monitor... it wouldn't work. Not in practice, not for video editing or for photography.
There's something fundamentally broken with the entire Windows and Linux ecosystems that it has been a decade of widespread HDR support everywhere else, but in the PC world it's just crickets chirping and wolves howling in the distance.