Mid-thought after investigating HDR complaints: your IPTV Reseller Panel is stripping HDR metadata from British IPTV streams, causing HDR content to display in SDR on HDR TVs — resulting in washed-out colors, grey blacks, and dim highlights that look worse than standard HD. A reseller in Stratford-upon-Avon had British IPTV customers with expensive HDR TVs complaining that "your HDR channels look worse than SDR channels." His IPTV Reseller Panel was stripping HDR metadata during transcoding to reduce bandwidth. British IPTV viewers expecting vibrant HDR colours saw flat, lifeless images. British IPTV audiences with HDR displays were getting a degraded experience. What actually works is HDR metadata passthrough. A reseller in Streatham switched to a panel that preserves HDR10, HLG, and Dolby Vision metadata untouched. His British IPTV HDR channels finally displayed with proper contrast, colour volume, and brightness. The pattern that keeps showing up is that bandwidth-saving transcoding destroys HDR quality. Ask your provider: "Does your panel preserve HDR metadata (HDR10, HLG, Dolby Vision) or strip it? Can you disable HDR stripping for customers with HDR displays?" If they strip HDR, your British IPTV "HDR" channels will look worse than SDR on the TVs designed to show them properly.