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Leader to Demonstrate Latest 4K HDR Test and Measurement Technology at SATIS 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Leader Electronics Europe will demonstrate the latest options for its LV5490 waveform monitor to television content producers, postproduction facility managers and broadcasters attending the November 15-17 SATIS show in Paris. Exhibiting on stand 3-E02, …

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Sony Updates TVs for HDR Games

by Bob Raikes

Sony has updated the firmware on its 2015 and 2016 TVs (excluding the Z9D/ZD9 models) that adds an HDR mode that is intended to improve support for game play on the sets, by reducing …

YouTube Supports HDR

by Bob Raikes

YouTube has said that it will support HDR content. Although this was informally said at CES, the service said in its blog that it would support videos graded with applications such as BlackMagic DaVinci …

Leader Adds HDR Support to Waveform Monitor

by Bob Raikes

Leader Instruments showed its new high-dynamic-range (HDR) features for our LV5490 4K waveform monitor and LV7390 4K upgradeable rasterizer. The LV5490SER07 HDR option for the LV5490 now enables this instrument to measure both 4K …

Teledyne LeCroy Releasing New HDR Patterns and Images

by Chris Chinnock

At the SMPTE 2016 exhibition in Hollywood, the Teledyne LeCroy exhibit featured a preview of the forthcoming HDR Test Option “HDR Lab” for the 980 test platform. Aimed at HDR device manufacturers and post-production, …

A New SDR Production Standard?

by Chris Chinnock

That seems to be what some people at the SMPTE conference are proposing (see related article: ISO Video Proposes SDR+ Production Method). In another spin on the idea, Joe Kane and Florian Friedrich want …

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The DTG’s D-Book 9 Defines Latest UK TV Industry Requirements

by Isaac Oburu

Hybrid broadcast broadband TV (HbbTV) references for the UK Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) Improved picture quality with High Dynamic Range (HDR) – including the two key technologies Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) & Perceptual Quantizer …

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Barco Performs Shadow and Highlight Measurements in a Theater

by Chris Chinnock

Last year, Barco presented a contrast model for the cinema that predicted real contrast values taking into account the projector, screen, and environment. They concluded that one starts to see diminishing returns in creating …

To Metadata or Not to Metadata

by Chris Chinnock

That is the question – on many people’s minds at the SMPTE Conference. There is a clear diversity of opinions about the use of metadata in live broadcast and file-based workflows. Dolby says they …

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HDR Comparison Demos at SMPTE

by Chris Chinnock

Sony and Dolby both showed HDR comparison demos at the SMPTE conference. For example, Sony showed two new OLED professional monitors as well as a new HDR format converter box, all of which was …

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Canon Releases New 1200cd Monitor for Dolby Vision Mastering

by Chris Chinnock

Canon was highlighting their new DP-V2420 and DP-V1710 24” and 17” HDR mastering monitors at the SMPTE conference. We have reported on them before (New Canon Projector and Broadcast Monitors Support HDR), but Canon …

Adjusting Image Appearance based on Ambient Conditions

by Chris Chinnock

Content is mastered in a dim environment and reproduced on a display whose performance is measured in a dark environment. But a lot of content is watched in environments that are not dark or …

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