THE BUDGET HDR CONUNDRUM
Putting together an affordable home entertainment
system has been made a lot tougher by the arrival of HDR.
Even many expensive TVs struggle with HDR’s challenging
brightness and contrast requirements – never mind the
wider colour range HDR is also typically accompanied
by. So for budget TVs, where contrast and brightness are
traditionally limited, HDR is pretty much a nightmare. In
fact, many budget TVs look worse with HDR than they do
with SDR. So what are your options?
One would be to get a TV that simply doesn’t support
HDR; unfortunately, though, precious few budget TVs dare
to ditch HDR when so many rivals carry it.
The other thing to look out for is a budget TV which, like
the Hisense R50B7120, combines direct LED lighting
(where the LEDs are placed directly behind the screen
rather than around its edges) with a VA panel (which
VDFULĆFHYLHZLQJDQJOHVEXWSURYLGHJRRGFRQWUDVW 42 T3 OCTOBER 2020
Home cinema heaven