[News Engineer]

I don’t understand why it’s gone backwards when countries like Japan are doing 8k and 8k tellys, Europe going backwards.

Because the costs of doing 4K are still a lot more than handling HD, not least because it involves carrying 4x the amount of data at all points in the chain. And there isn’t enough of a consumer demand, to put it bluntly a huge amount of the audience, sadly, doesn’t care if the picture isn’t as sharp on their big telly.

The focus on HD HDR is because, it’s argued, the HDR (and wide colour) is where the biggest benefit comes. And it makes a difference on all sizes of screen. This can be achieved without having to carry the extra data that UHD brings.

No point talking about 8K, it’s likely to remain a very niche product.

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Apologies if this has already been mentioned somewhere, but reportedly the BBC's matches will be streamed on iPlayer in HDR, but not UHD. This is because UEFA's production format for the tournament is 1080p HDR, not full UHD like the last Euros. I'm pleasantly surprised the BBC is providing an HDR feed - I don't think they've done non-UHD HDR on iPlayer before...?

I hadn’t seen those reports and yes I think it would be a first. The BBC policy has been that they would standardise on UHD = HDR and vice versa. Presumably if HD HDR is becoming more of a common offering they’ll want to be able to offer something that’s better than HD SDR.

Technically they have offered it before as - I think - one of the streaming profiles of the UHD HDR delivered 1080p HDR for those situations where a user didn’t have the bandwidth for the full 2160p stream.