Red Dead Redemption 2 4K HDR Analysis... It's Faked from SDR.

We analysed the RGB parade scope of Red Dead Redemption 2 using 4K HDR screenshots from the Xbox One X console, and concluded that RDR2's HDR video output is basically just upscaled from SDR. Although not tested by ourselves, the same issue is present on the Playstation 4 (PS4) Pro version too.

Because the Red Dead Redemption 2's HDR rendition usually results in a picture that is either too dim, or bright enough but too washed out because of elevated black level and midtones issues, we recommend that you play the game in SDR (standard dynamic range) to get the best picture quality.

Many thanks to Adam Fairclough (a.k.a. evilboris) and 4K Blu-ray compressionist David Mackenzie for their help in the production of this video. Adam's article on Red Dead Redemption 2's faked HDR output can be found here:

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...

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