Thanks, will try!
Tested X-Men: Apocalypse and I have to say (finally); WOW! Light output is still about the same as with regular SDR now, and no black crush as far as I could tell. Dynamics looks very good, for example in the factory at the start of the movie where sparks are far more dynamically reproduced than in regular SDR mode while still maintaining overall brightness. I´ll certainly try some more discs, but using the latest firmware on UB900 / Z1 seems to finally have unlocked the true HDR potential of this setup! I will also try the Kris Deering HDR tweak that was suggested here and see if this improves the performance any further, but again; on this particular movie at least, HDR mode introduces neither any significant loss of light output as far as I can tell and also retains details in blacks - and seems to work fine also on my 13 feet wide 0.8 gain AT screen - good riddance!! Also, I did not see the laser pulse once during my 20 minutes or so test...
Probably I should add that I adjusted the HDR mode to max light output on the UB900, a feature I do not believe was available until quite recently? Anyhow; auto HDR @ Z1 (RS4500) + max bright HDR mode @ UB900 really seems to be an excellent combo also for larger screen setups. I might not get all the "HDR dynamics" available, but there is certainly some added dynamics, but only at a very slight cost of light. Just like I "ordered", only thing that might be even better is Dolby Vision - but I guess for projectors and all variables accounted for, the DV would end up reducing the HDR-effect to just about the same level I´m using now anyhow, so why bother...
Probably I should add that I adjusted the HDR mode to max light output on the UB900, a feature I do not believe was available until quite recently? Anyhow; auto HDR @ Z1 (RS4500) + max bright HDR mode @ UB900 really seems to be an excellent combo also for larger screen setups. I might not get all the "HDR dynamics" available, but there is certainly some added dynamics, but only at a very slight cost of light.
Be careful with this setting, putting it to max will clip a lot of highlights in a movie with has some very bright scenes.I added two pictures with the HDR slider to 6 and then to max with is 12, you can see that almost all of the white details in the snow and sky are gone.It can be certainly very helpful but should be used with a lot of care, in darker movies where there is not to much of highlights you can probably afford to go a bit higher.Just put in the Spyder man disc and put the clipping pattern on with the code on the remote, when you adjust the HDR slider on the Pan. you can seer perfectly what you are clipping.The UHD of Everest is a good test to do this, some very good scenes with high picture level to play around with the slider.I must say that when playing around there is definitely a lot of benefit to get, in combination with the updated software on the Z1 I will not use the trip HDR metadata with the Fury integral anymore.I did adjust the Black gamma on the Pana. with just one click, to get some extra detail in the blacks, the HDR slider is on 7 and laser is on mid with max setting and auto dimming on 2.
Everest is a great test disc - several snow scenes to watch to make sure that details in the glacier / snow scenes aren't being lost.
It is, you can find some good scenes to play with the HDR slider and see how far you can go before things get worse instead of better :-)
Thanks for the heads up Jetsen, will try lower it to avoid clipping. I hope this new UB900-feature does not introduce issues in the greyscale-tracking which is clearly the case when reducing HDR-level on the Epson E-shift projectors for example... HDR is seemingly a rather tough beast to tame....!
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