Netflix wants to make TV look better

Netflix is bringing more fancy technology to bear on streaming video with an expansion of 4K content and the introduction of High Dynamic Range.

HDR is the latest advancement in viewing technology and it could be one of the biggest changes in years. It basically produces an image with more visual information than before, adding extra data in the lightest and darkest parts of the picture.

So areas which previously might have been completely over exposed will now have detail in them and the darkest shadows could be full of texture. HDR also delivers a greater colour range, and overall produces images which are more like what we see in real life.