Samsung Galaxy Note 8, S8 and S8+ discreetly get YouTube HDR video support

There's not a lot of YouTube HDR video content you can play on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8, S8 or S8+ right now, but it's always nice to have options.

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Sony Mobile Taiwan shuts down Xperia X Premium HDR display rumor

Good news: your eyesight is now safe.We relayed rumors of the Sony Xperia X Premium getting the world’s first mobile HDR display with some billion colors achievable and 1,300 nits of brightness to max things out.Well, Sony Mobile Taiwan has come out to ePrice to simply say that the missive is fake. Nothing more, nothing less.Oh, well.Source:

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Galaxy S 4 Pre-Orders, LG Event on May 1st, Samsung vs HTC & More – Pocketnow Daily

Watch today’s Pocketnow Daily as we talk about LG’s press invites for an event on May 1st, and what we expect to be released. Then we talk about the iPhone 5S and its possible 12-megapixel camera and HDR video recording capabilities. Facebook is next as chat heads reach iOS on the iPhone and iPad, even though they aren’t as great as on Android. We later talk about the Samsung Galaxy S 4 pre-orders and where to begin. We end today’s show talking about how the government of Taiwan is now investigating Samsung over their assumed practices to stir attention away from ...

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Does HDR Video Matter? Sony Xperia ZL HDR Video vs the iPhone 5′s Normal Video

Even though we recently saw HTC’s take on HDR video on Anton’s recent test, Sony was arrived first to the game with their Xperia Z and Xperia ZL. A lot of people have asked us if HDR video is just as good as HDR photographs on smartphones. High Dynamic Range photos are really three photos snapped into one. What devices do is select the better lit areas of each of the three photos in different exposures and provide you with a better result at the end. When it comes to video, the concept and solution are a little different, but the purpose of providing you with better detail on ...

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HTC One HDR vs Normal Video

HDR (High Dynamic Range) is nothing new; we’ve been using this camera setting for quite some time on our Android phones (and not only). In tricky lighting conditions, like when your subject is backlit, snapping an HDR shot makes all the difference between keeping the photo and throwing it to the trash. However, HDR video is something we need to get used to having, since only a few phones have capabilities to shoot them, the HTC One being one of those. HDR setting in video is maybe even more welcome than in case of pictures, when you might have the option to force your flash in order ...

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