Lack of Super HDR in OneUI6.1

[SoraNoKuni]

Hi community, a lot of people seem to not know that our devices didn't get a crucial qol update, Super HDR is apparently absent from our devices in oneui6.1, it's a shame especially when iPhone users got it as an update after the S24 launch in a lot of previous Gen devices,  it's a feature that is the way forward, pixels got it too, we have the hardware to support it, and the algorithms should be hardware agnostic(HDR display excluded).

As a hobbyist photographer I am really bummed, but even for casual everyday users it's a great update as their photography experience in all these devices will automatically be upgraded, it's 2024, we must be able to preview photos is HDR.

Come on samsung...

I hope this will get fixed. 

am happy we got the ai ones but for me and a lot of people this one is probably more useful eve

[SoraNoKuni]

You just dismissed HDR tonemapping, sdr dimming, and so many science trying to bring true life dynamic range, vibrancy, with "Just push up the brightness".

I guess that's why Samsung won't even bother in the end.

Apple will dominate further unfortunately.

[Joeeye]

Apple will dominate because they have a very strong marketing department. I highly doubt a niche feature like this will have any impact whatsoever. It's such an irrelevant update, I haven't even noticed it since disabling it in the gallery.

Samsung usually tend to bring out features in Android before Apple and Google, but it usually goes under the radar until one of them picks it up. Anyone who truly knows Samsung products knows this. Android has literally been paved with many Samsung first details. Honestly, if one niche feature goes by, for older generations of phones, it's not going to be the end of the world.

[SoraNoKuni]

I am sorry but I think you are not into tech, niche feature?

I am a professional color grader in broadcasting, I can understand, and tell, how this "niche" feature is gonna be a crucial qol feature going forward.

Setting the HDR standard in photography on everyday content(Chromium based browsers already support this, IG is starting to, Lightroom mobile as well)to correctly portray lifelike pictures on any android is a niche feature?

You can research a bit on what Ultra HDR is.

Totally dismissing people who payed hard earnt money to get a flagship device only to be unable to support the standard that every device will have in the immediate near future. Tell me why people should even get Samsung devices at a premium? Especially when it's doable but they decide not to pay a week worth of developer salaries to port it?

I am sorry, but I won't support a company over consumers.

https://www.androidpolice.com/android-14-ultra-hdr-hands-on/

[Joeeye]

That's the issue, it's too close and personal for you. It is niche and yes I am into tech. Google developed Ultra HDR so naturally they've already planned in advance for this. Since you're so into tech you should know this already. It's literally only the Pixel 8, S24 Ultra and Oneplus 12 that can actually take Ultra HDR photos anyway so why the angst?

[SoraNoKuni]

Give the everyday user this https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/170wnb0/google_chrome_on_android_14_adds_support_for/

Then take it from them, then ask them if it was a niche feature or not.

Some things are ok when we don't have them, but when we eventually have them, they become the standards.

Next thing you'll tell me is that when ai computational photography arrived it was a niche feature, or when HDR video playback came, it was a niche feature, come on man.

This is fanboyism at best, you act like Samsung's attorney.

[Joeeye]

OK prove that anything before the S24 supports SDR dimming? You talk about a feature they've never had, being taken away, but they've never had it. You calling me a fan boy for Samsung because what exactly?

You do understand (which you should being a technology buff and all that) that there are moments where technology goes through transitional periods. Where one generation supercedes the last and sometimes not all products from various companies at the time, jump on board. I mean look at Apple who only really embraced OLEDs since 2017? Did the 9 years prior, kill their business even though Samsung embraced and used OLEDs 7 years before? Or how about simply using USB C on an iPhone, seems pretty obvious the way things should've been as a standard but Apple never budged for nearly a decade. Did it kill them as a company?

So Samsung has embraced this new Ultra HDR revolution (made by Google) on it's latest flagships the same time Google have released it as a standard, but you acting like Samsung have been shafting it's users for an age?

[SoraNoKuni]

Huh? iPhone 12 upwards, pixel 4a upwards.

But that was not what I implied, you downplay a crucial and importand feature that it's about to be the industry standard in mobile photography, and I provide you some easy to understand pieces of information to prove you wrong, all I am saying and all this time since this topic's inception was that feature that can be easily implemented, didn't, and that like Apple and Google, samsung should follow their steps as this feature will become something we take for granted as HDR VIDEOS, and you keep downplaying like you are a stockholder, now you try to derail the thread and act like you don't understand.

I get that you have and HDR TV, right?

Take a look at some SDR and HDR 10+ or Dolby Vision, Heck, even HDR10 base content, how is that niche?

Whatever, I am done, I wasn't expecting to speak with undercover CEO of Samsung trying to convince me I am wrong to demand a simple feature.

[Joeeye]

It's niche because it'll be viewed by a minority until most products embrace it as a standard. You know there are TVs today still sold that do not have HDR in their specs right?

My point to you is this, Samsung aren't ignoring it, it's in the S24 series and all likelihood, be there in any future products. You obsessively complaining about a transitional feature for the future will not be remembered in a year at most.

I'd also like to point out, Chrome does support Super HDR content on Samsung Android 14 devices already. So I really don't see what the fuss is about.

[SoraNoKuni]

That's incorrect, what you see is in SDR...

Well, you don't know what you are talking about, I am sorry, I won't argue anymore, there is no point, have a nice day.

For those who know and for Samsung devs... please just set the ro.surface_flinger.enable_sdr_dimming to 1.

Thanks.

[Joeeye]

It's a simple fix, you think they wouldn't know that?