Am I the only person who gets washed out colors in HDR? In SDR colors look more vivid and saturated but brightness is noticeably lower . On PC, I can solve the problem with Nvidia’s Digital vibrancy slider, which boosts colors while still retaining the 700+ nits brightness and keeps local dimming enabled for better contrast. On PS5, such feature is absent and games look washed out in HDR and when HDR is enabled, I’m locked out from doing anything in the OSD apart from adjusting the sharpness, which doesn’t help the washed out colors. Would really appreciate if you let us improve colour saturation/vibrancy in HDR in FW 106.
If you’re not running firmware 105 from the link below, I recommend trying it because it is supposed to help a bit with washed-out HDR.
If you’re already of firmware 105, please give a bit more info about what you’ve got connected. Is it a console or a computer? If it’s a computer, which GPU are you using and what’s your OS?
I agree with you that the support team are pretty garbage. They take a long time to respond to emails, and half the time the info they give you is useless. However, that’s the support email, not the forums. These are community forums and not an official support channel, so any help you receive here is likely from other community members (like myself).
Hi NZgeek. I’m on 105 and I’m using certified HDMI 2.1 CABLES for both my pc and ps5
In SDR colors look more vivid and saturated but brightness is noticeably lower . On PC, I can solve the problem with Nvidia’s Digital vibrancy slider, which boosts colors while still retaining the 700+ nits brightness and keeps local dimming enabled for better contrast. On PS5, such feature is absent and games look washed out in HDR and when HDR is enabled, I’m locked out from doing anything in the OSD apart from adjusting the sharpness, which doesn’t help the washed out colors. Would really appreciate if they let us improve colour saturation/vibrancy in HDR in FW 106.
I wonder if this is an issue with HDMI in particular.
I use DisplayPort (Windows 10 laptop, RTX 2070) and USB-C (MacBook) with HDR turned on pretty much all the time, and haven’t had any general issues with washed out colours. They’re just as saturated as the built-in screens.
I’ve had 1 issue where I had a HDR game running (Diablo II: Resurrected) and walked away from the computer for a few minutes. When I came back, the game had washed out colours. But as soon as I exited the game to the desktop, everything was fine. I haven’t had the problem since.
This is why I bought a LG 38GN950-B. While I miss the 4K res, I do NOT miss the HDR greyscale issues and monitor flickering.
I understand the technical side of isolating an issue and implementing a fix. I am also a customer and want to not have to constantly troubleshoot an issue or reset the monitor.
. On PC, I can solve the problem with Nvidia’s Digital vibrancy slider, which boosts colors while still retaining the 700+ nits brightness and keeps local dimming enabled for better contrast. On PS5, such feature is absent and games look washed out in HDR and when HDR is enabled, I’m locked out from doing anything in the OSD apart from adjusting the sharpness, which doesn’t help the washed out colors. Would really appreciate if you let us improve colour saturation/vibrancy in HDR in FW 106.
