TVs terminology is quite confusing, so sometimes it’s hard to understand different TV technologies, especially if you’re new to TV industry and you’re just looking to by the best TV. In this case, you may even don’t understand what some technologies mean and how they would impact your viewing experience.

However, understanding TV technologies may be very important when buying a new TV, so we recommend you to read this article before you made your purchase decision.

Also, we have an article explaining Quantum Dots and Quantum Dots recommendations for viewing, so you also can read that article to enrich your understanding.

What is Quantum HDR: Quantum HDR meaning

Let’s start with a simple definition of Quantum HDR technology, as that’s the first step towards understanding this technology.

Quantum HDR – means that the TV uses HDR technology, and the quantum itself means that the screen of your Samsung TV is made using quantum dots.

HDR itself is more difficult to understand, but in common words HDR is an abbreviation of High Dynamic Range. It indicates how bright (or dark) the image can be on the screen.

HDR was introduced in some cameras in order to help capture as much detail as possible in the image for the lightest and darkest parts of it. In simple words it works as follows: a camera is capturing several images with different exposure values and then combines them in order to enrich the final image lightest and darkest places with as much detail as possible.

Samsung has introduced HDR (High-Dynamic Range) technology in its new 2019 TVs (and TVs of all following years as well). However, you should understand that Quantum HDR is just a marketing name given to HDR10 and HDR10+ standards support. Samsung isn’t the only company that gives unique marketing names for HDR10/HDR10+ standards support, for example, LG names this technology HDR super and HDR Pro (if you’re considering buying an LG TV as well, you can also read our article about this technology).

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Quantum HDR 12x vs 16x

As I already said, that are just marketing names given for HDR10/HDR10+ standards support. While HDR 10 supports image brightness up to 1000 nits, HDR10+ supports up to 4000 nits.

Just in 2018, Samsung announced support for HDR10+ technology, and in 2019, new HDR technologies weren’t developed. In order to somehow highlight the new TV models in 2019, Samsung came up with the unusual names of standard technologies. There is nothing new or special behind these names. This name simply has to show the buyer that there is on TV, something special that was not supported in older TV models.

What is Quantum HDR 12x

However, there’s hard to understand the difference between Quantum HDR 12x/16x. There’s no information about the difference between different Quantum HDR X’s, but we can assume that’s just another marketing trick, that means how much metadata streams would be are processed by the TV’s processor to make the image more detailed. Another assumption (that sounds even more realistic) is that 12X is a peak brightness multiplier (the base brightness is 100 nits). Therefore, the peak brightness for Quantum HDR 12x would be 1200 nits.

Quantum HDR vs HDR

You should understand that HDR is a technology name, while Quantum HDR is a marketing name given for this technology supports in Samsung TVs. Other TV-makers have their own names for this technical support. So, you simply can’t compare HDR vs Quantum HDR simply because one of them is a technology, while another one is just a marketing name that indicates that Samsung TV supports HDR technology.

That sounds a little bit strange, but that’s how it works. It’s nonsense like comparing Retina display with LED displays. The first one is the commercial name, while the second one is just the name of technology.

Quantum HDR vs Quantum HDR 12X

As we said, there’s no clear information across the Web, but based on assumption that Quantum HDR 12X means the peak brightness (12×100 nits),we can assume that Quantum HDR is just a commercial name for all TVs supporting HDR (without emphasize on the peak brightness).

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