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Is Gamma Still Needed?: Part 10 – Summary

by Bob Raikes

What They Say If you were interested in the Display Daily last week on the topic of scene-referred video (Poynton Defines “Scene Referred” Video), you will probably be interested in an article in ‘the …

Tags:Codecs| Colour (Color)| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Video Encoders & Decoders

Links for w/c 5th April 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the first part of this week. Oppo smartphone adds 60x microscope camera HDR: …

Tags:Cameras| Codecs| GPUs| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Panasonic| Patents| Recruitment & Appointments| Smartphones| TCL| Xiaomi

VP9 Does Not Include Dynamic HDR

by Bob Raikes

What They Say An interesting post on a French home cinema website, highlighted by Ultra HD 4K News, points out that the AV1 codec cannot supply dynamic HDR metadata, as the codec relies on …

Tags:AV1 Codec| Codecs| HDR - High Dynamic Range

Links Round-up Week Ending 5th Feb 2021

by Bob Raikes

Every week we see some articles that don’t really need comment or are just plain interesting. Here are a few from the second part of this week. Powerpaste packs clean hydrogen energy in a …

Tags:AUO| Codecs| Environment| Financial Data| LG Electronics (LGE)| Patents| Smartphone Market| Virtual Reality

Sharp & 8K: The Phoenix Strikes Back

by Pete Putman

Sharp Corporation, best known for bringing LCD televisions, monitors, and projectors to market – and almost going belly-up almost a decade ago – has arisen again and become a major player in the 8K …

Tags:Codecs| sharp| Super Hi-Vision (8K)| VVC (H.266)

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InterDigital completes VVC and V-PCC standards

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Interdigital said that it has finalised the VVC and V-PCC video standards at MPEG. The VVC standard is claimed to improve video compression by 50%. V-PCC is a significant step forward …

Tags:360 Degree Video| Codecs| VVC (H.266)

Review of XBox with Details of HDR support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say The Flatpanelshd TV blog has a review of the XBox that highlights what the console is doing with HDR content. The review highlights that the console does not support the AV1 …

Tags:Codecs| Dolby Atmos| Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| xBox

Samsung: “8K is the future”

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Advanced Television reported on the virtual 4K Summit and said that Richard Moreton, from Samsung Electronics’ R&D UK Business Development & Industrial Affairs unit confirmed Samsung’s belief in the future of …

Tags:Codecs| Samsung| Super Hi-Vision (8K)

V-Nova completes MPEG-5 LCEVC standard

by Bob Raikes

What They Say V-Nova said that it has made “a milestone achievement” in MPEG-5 Part 2 LCEVC (Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding) being promoted to MPEG/ISO final draft international standard. V-Nova co-chaired the standard’s …

Tags:Codecs| MPEG| Streaming Video

Google Requires AV1 Support

by Bob Raikes

What They Say Google will require Android TV device makers to support the AV1 codec from April 1st 2021. The latest Fire TVs (from Toshiba and others) have already got support and Netflix is …

Tags:Codecs| HEVC (H.265)| Streaming Video