There is an exciting new technology for displaying digital images: new HDR. Not the old HDR. A new and different HDR technology.
I'll quote the definitive article on this subject:
“HDR” on this page refers to new technologies (hardware and software) which create truly higher dynamic range display. The name for this new technology is confusing because we’ve used the term “HDR” for years, and now we’re using that same name for something completely different.
Plain JPEGs (without a new HDR gain map) have 8 stops of dynamic range. Display technology can now show several stops more than that. With old HDR, no matter how much tone mapping went into processing the image, the final result was a plain JPEG with 8 stops of dynamic range. With new HDR images and the right combination of display hardware and software, you can see about 12 stops of dynamic range.
If you have a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon, head over to that definitive article to enjoy the results; you'll have to use Chrome and the built-in display. If you don't have a MacBook Pro with Apple silicon, but you do have a newer smartphone (like an iPhone 11+, Pixel 7+, or Galaxy S21+), then you can see new HDR images by opening my sample gallery in the Google Photos app (not in a mobile web browser). Notice the differences in brightness. Don't pay too much attention to minor color differences since I may have accidentally stripped a color profile when I was preparing the non-HDR version.
If you have a newer smartphone, then you may already be using it to take new HDR photos without realizing! If you find a photo you took with a bright sky, and view it in the Apple Photos or Google Photos app, then the sky will look, well, pretty bright. If you take a screenshot, add both the original and the screenshot to the same album, and flip between them, then you'll notice the difference. (The screenshot is a PNG, but like JPEGs, it has only 8 stops of dynamic range.)
Although this tech is exciting, and certainly makes bright landscapes look better, I don't currently feel the need to incorporate it into my bird photography's editing and sharing flows. Maybe some day I'll put in that work.
Maybe some day I'll get an external HDR monitor. For now, a non-HDR 4K monitor suits my needs. It looks like some HDR 4K monitors now exist in the ~$1500 range, but I know of only one 5K or 6K HDR monitor, and it costs as much as a flagship camera.
I actually want more resolution in a display. But (digressing from the point of this post), my reason for wanting more resolution could technically be solved with software:
When I cull bird photos, I often have two candidate photos side-by-side in a program like FastRawViewer. If I need to zoom (perhaps to view a 100% crop), then I need the images to be aligned. The images will already be aligned if the subject was still and I did not re-frame between shots, but they might require manual alignment in other cases. It could be automatic! Cameras can detect subjects to focus on them; culling programs could detect subjects to align images.
(More resolution can make manual alignment easier or less necessary.)
Getting back on topic, new HDR is more dramatically useful for landscape photos than for most wildlife photography.
In conclusion, this is a great technology that truly increases displayed dynamic range. By comparison: * New HDR makes the old "HDR"/"High Dynamic Range" name seem like marketing B.S., since that technology did not increase dynamic range (it just remapped tones). * I even expect that some images would look better with new HDR than as high-quality matte prints. After all, some images depict objects that emit light in the real world (such as bright skies or neon lights), whereas prints can only reflect light. Even high-quality glossy prints, such as dye sublimation prints on metal, may have less than 12 stops of dynamic range in achievable lighting conditions, although I don't have good references for this beyond an old dpreview thread and personal recollection.