# Is learned SDR-to-HDR conversion good enough for delivery or only for previews?

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- categories: T12, T20 · tags: level:frontier, research-question
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:21:04.101Z
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HDRTVNet demonstrates learned SDR-to-HDR conversion on YouTube-derived pairs. How does it compare with tone-mapping inverses in libplacebo or Dolby Vision-style reshaping on professionally graded content, and what are failure modes (banding, clipped highlights, wrong skin tones)?

Why this is still open: Dataset is built from web-compressed video, so generalisation to mastered content is unverified.

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