{"id":7851,"date":"2018-12-01T00:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7851"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:47:05","slug":"surface-pro-6-no-hdr-streaming-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/12\/01\/surface-pro-6-no-hdr-streaming-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Surface Pro 6: No HDR streaming support?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180729113450\/https:\/\/v47.imgup.net\/Surface218b.jpg\" width=\"71\" align=\"left\" height=\"52\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/30\/kannn-das-surface-pro-6-kein-hdr-streamen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]It seems that Microsoft's latest innovation, the Surface Pro 6, can't stream HDR-quality content to external monitors or display such content to external devices via Displayport.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vg06.met.vgwort.de\/na\/a72266a0c58243b9b6d65cb7a02c6523\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\">The Surface Pro 6 has been introduced as a new model by Microsoft in October 2018 (beside Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2) and is now available in the USA. Now I came aware about a not so nice thing reading the following tweet from my MVP colleague Barb Bowman.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"de\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SurfaceSupport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SurfaceSupport<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/panos_panay?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@panos_panay<\/a>&nbsp; does Surface Pro 6 support HDR streaming? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2D4WV3AUfE\">https:\/\/t.co\/2D4WV3AUfE<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ftKAOjgzT1\">pic.twitter.com\/ftKAOjgzT1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barb Bowman  (@barbbowman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/barbbowman\/status\/1068186877012922369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">29. November 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"preserved6c646b9e6364ca485434d06eaa8a6c7\" class=\"wlWriterPreserve\"><SCRIPT charset=\"utf-8\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async><\/SCRIPT><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>There she plays 'the ball' to Panos Panay from Microsoft, because the issued raised is not yet really clear.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Surface Pro 6\" alt=\"Surface Pro 6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.drwindows.de\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/surface_pro6_04-660x330.jpg\" width=\"596\" height=\"298\"><br \/>(Source: Microsoft\/Dr. Windows)<\/p>\n<h2>What's the problem?<\/h2>\n<p>The abbreviation HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, display devices must be able to display a larger dynamic range. All this promises better contrasts, higher brightness and a wider colour palette. The point is to make movies and TV shows (4K HDR videos) even more lifelike. The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/High-dynamic-range_video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustedreviews.com\/opinion\/hdr-tv-high-dynamic-television-explained-2927035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a> as well as this article deal with HDR. <\/p>\n<p>A user complains at <a href=\"https:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/forum\/surfpro6-surfdrivers\/surface-pro-6-cant-stream-hdr-content-to-an\/cb6d32a2-25cd-4d67-824b-fa8054861db2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Answers<\/a> that his Surface Pro 6 model does not seem to stream HDR content:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Surface Pro 6 &#8211; Can't stream HDR content to an external tv at 4k 60hz<\/h3>\n<p>Hello,  <\/p>\n<p>I just bought a Surface Pro 6 (i7-8650U &#8211; 16 GB RAM) and can't stream HDR content towards a 4k OLED LG monitor.  <\/p>\n<p>My monitor is capable of HDR, since I use it with my XBOX ONE X (the HDR icon correctly appears).  <\/p>\n<p>I have connected that monitor to my surface pro 6 (using the same Xbox one x cable and TV port) and indeed I can see that the PC is able to select 4k 60hz, so cables and tv are fine.  <\/p>\n<p>Then I enabled stream HDR on the HDR settings in windows.  <\/p>\n<p>After that I installed the HEVC codecs from the Microsoft store as suggested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4040547\/windows-10-display-requirements-hdr-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4040547\/windows-10-display-requirements-hdr-video<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>after all this I still can see 8 bit color depth in my advanced display settings for the 4k external monitor instead of the required 10 bit color depth for HDR.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I know the integrated Intel UHD 620 can stream hdr but all the suggestions didn't work.  <\/p>\n<p>what did I do wrong?  <\/p>\n<p>I also followed strictly this page:  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4040547\/windows-10-display-requirements-hdr-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/help\/4040255\/windows-10-stream-hdr-video<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>but couldn't see the option \"<strong>Windows HD Color settings<\/strong>\". why isn't it there?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Within the thead, it turns out that certain versions of the DisplayPort exists, and only one has 10-bit support, that is required for streaming HDR content.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>DisplayPort Version 1.2 supports only 8 bit\n<li>DisplayPort Version 1.4 supports 10 bit <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Only a DisplayPort version 1.4 might be capable to support 10 bit. The exciting question is whether Surface Pro 6 has a DisplayPort version 1.4. Only then, at least theoretically, there is a chance for HDR streaming. In <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/am-et\/help\/4039635\/connect-surface-to-a-tv-display-or-projector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Microsoft document<\/a> I found only hints for DisplayPort version 1.2, so that HDR streaming is not possible. But the whole thing has not yet been officially clarified &#8211; there might be another problem, so Surface Pro 6 doesn't support HDR. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]It seems that Microsoft's latest innovation, the Surface Pro 6, can't stream HDR-quality content to external monitors or display such content to external devices via Displayport.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[47,1734],"class_list":["post-7851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","tag-issue","tag-surface-pro-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}