Yep, Option 2 also became my favorite setup for gaming.
Yep.. Injecting 1000 pc meta data and using option 1 in the OP on my C7.
How you finding the clipping and do you use that for every game as u find it clips quite heavily also last question do you still follow the in game hdr calibration or just set it to 1000 nits for eg forza horizon 4 blends at about 3500 nits for me
I definitely settled with Option 2 after 2 years of experiments to improve my 55B7V picture quality. Very happy with it, along with all other profiles in the first post.
I would try Option 2 with PS4 Pro video settings all set to Auto, except RGB to be set to Limited
Try Option 2 without injection and games that will let you set HDR Luminance to 2.000 nits will look perfect.
Yes, since two firmwares ago at least PC Mode issues (wrong gamut, color banding) got fixed, while increased input lag when using PC HDR Standard is negligible or even identical to regular HDR Game when forcing 10-bit on X1X Video settings.
When using Option 2 (and PC Mode) you must still avoid using 4:2:2 Chroma Subsampling (uncheck YCC 422 from X1X Video Options).
My sincere apologies, after a reboot of my X1X it's all good. Not sure why that was needed mind you but there you go.
"Needed" is a bit of an hyperbole in this regard in my opinion.
No apologies needed, a reboot (after a major settings change like this) very often fixes some initial quirk.
I don't game on PC, so I'm not sure how exactly Windows handles HDR handshakes, but I would just use my "Option 2" recommended settings for SDR and HDR, then I would find a way and make sure that NVIDIA control panel would use RGB Limited @ 8-bit for SDR (these TV are not meant to be used with High Black Level, as they would have problem when switching to HDR), and YCC 420 @ 10-bit for HDR (otherwise you will experience color banding in HDR).
Injection also massively blows out the picture if comparing it sbs to game mode but it's a trade off I'll live with for the brightness and lack of input lag
They work fine, but the problem is that by default the Pro switches to YUV 422 in HDR, and you have to manually switch to YUV 420 in the resolution settings every time you want HDR, and switch it back for SDR. It doesn't allow you to choose the default like Xbox does.
Nah, if you're doing option 2, you need YUV 420 selected (it's a resolution option on Pro) for HDR to avoid banding. If you have RGB or Auto selected, it will automatically switch to YUV 422 in HDR, which causes banding with option 2.
Yeah that's all! It's kind of a pain, would be nice if they'd just add an option to automatically switch to YUV 420 in HDR like the Xbox has.
That's a good question. RGB has more color/chroma information and uses more bandwidth, so it's technically better (current HDMI can't do RGB and HDR at the same time because there's not enough bandwidth). I'm not sure how much it really affects the picture on these TV's in SDR though. I was reading in the HDR games analysed thread that a lot of TV's may be down converting it to YUV internally anyway before anything is displayed so who knows lol.
