dickieblack
Standard Member
Hi all, I’m hoping I can get some advice and really hoping I haven’t made an expensive mistake
I have just completed a home cinema setup on a low budget - 5.1 sound from a Denon AVR-X550bt and Denon 5.1 speakers, a Panasonic UB820 Blu-ray player (and a chromecast ultra) connected to a Benq TK850 projector via the AVR, with a wired network connection to 60mbps broadband for streaming. Finally, I have a Sapphire 77” screen. Not everything was new and my budget is basically exhausted.
I have read a few threads here about the different HDR formats and what I was hoping to achieve was 4K HDR for watching movies, netflix etc. But what I am struggling with is the different HDR formats. The projector can do HDR10 and HLG, but not DolbyVision. The Blu-ray player can do HDR10, 10+ and DV and so can the chromecast. I know that set up overall works as I’ve played a HDR clip of Gemini Man (which was supposedly in DV) and was blown away! I had assumed that the different standards were in some way additive and that as the projector can do HDR10, I’d get at least that when playing content with “better” formats.
But playing what I believe to be HDR content on Netflix does not seem to give me the experience I expect. The colour depth and brightness were nothing like the clip and nor was the UHD Blu-ray of Thor Ragnarok I tried. Most of the content on Netflix seems to be DV and having read various threads here I’m worried that as the projector doesn’t support DV, any content that is in that format will not be shown in any form of HDR, even if the resolution is 4K. Which I think might then mean all I really get is higher resolution but lose most of the colour depth and brightness. Have I understood this correctly?
Does anyone have any advice? What should I be able to achieve with what I have? Are there settings I need to change on the projector and/or Blu-ray player?
Many thanks,
Richard
I have just completed a home cinema setup on a low budget - 5.1 sound from a Denon AVR-X550bt and Denon 5.1 speakers, a Panasonic UB820 Blu-ray player (and a chromecast ultra) connected to a Benq TK850 projector via the AVR, with a wired network connection to 60mbps broadband for streaming. Finally, I have a Sapphire 77” screen. Not everything was new and my budget is basically exhausted.
I have read a few threads here about the different HDR formats and what I was hoping to achieve was 4K HDR for watching movies, netflix etc. But what I am struggling with is the different HDR formats. The projector can do HDR10 and HLG, but not DolbyVision. The Blu-ray player can do HDR10, 10+ and DV and so can the chromecast. I know that set up overall works as I’ve played a HDR clip of Gemini Man (which was supposedly in DV) and was blown away! I had assumed that the different standards were in some way additive and that as the projector can do HDR10, I’d get at least that when playing content with “better” formats.
But playing what I believe to be HDR content on Netflix does not seem to give me the experience I expect. The colour depth and brightness were nothing like the clip and nor was the UHD Blu-ray of Thor Ragnarok I tried. Most of the content on Netflix seems to be DV and having read various threads here I’m worried that as the projector doesn’t support DV, any content that is in that format will not be shown in any form of HDR, even if the resolution is 4K. Which I think might then mean all I really get is higher resolution but lose most of the colour depth and brightness. Have I understood this correctly?
Does anyone have any advice? What should I be able to achieve with what I have? Are there settings I need to change on the projector and/or Blu-ray player?
Many thanks,
Richard