You got 720p,1080p, 4k. More pixels. Doesnt take a fuckin brain genius to figure out if your tv's picture looks better because of course it does, and you don't gotta do anything to get it to work. but they realized that past 4k, shit ain't gonna look much better for the cost. so what do they do? more colors per pixel. only problem is color settings on tvs suck. tv manufactures handle this like dogshit. so now you gotta spend 30 minutes before watching a movie cause your fuckin tv automatically changes the setting from time to time for no fuckin reason. all this just to get slightly more colors. it's not even that noticeable. i fuckin hate HDR. i fuckin hate tv manufacturers.
the shining's still a beautiful movie but fuck me did i not notice the HDR one bit.
Fuck it anyway for being a drain on resources.
It isn't though. When someone can provide HDR content when others can't, they charge as large of a price premium as they can get away with, and the cost of this price premium has very little to do with the actual cost to start producing HDR content as opposed to regular stuff. The majority of the equipment required to do HDR isn't extra expensive because it's HDR, it's just expensive because it's new.
I don't care. It's a stupid-ass indulgence and any resources spent on it are too many. it is utterly and completely the capitalist style of 'innovation' that adds nothing of value to a product.