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by Chris Chinnock
Keith Slavin of ISO Video presented a method for automated tone mapping of unsaturated HDR content down to an SDR range and BT.709 color gamut for distribution as an SDR signal. By using the …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
Shane Mario Ruggieri, a Production Engineer, Producer and Colorist at Dolby Laboratories presented a paper titled, “Breaking out of the 100-nit Box – A Colorist’s View of HDR Grading.” In the talk, he explained …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
In a paper presented by Peter Postma and a team from FilmLight, Postma started by noting that colorists first spend a lot of time color matching content from different cameras before creating the HDR …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
Several papers at the SMPTE conference were aimed at colorists working on the grading of HDR and WCG content. This is still a new area and most colorists have not yet tried to grade …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
The opposite problem to gamut compression is gamut extension, which was discussed by Syed Waqas Zamir of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. Here, the idea is to take the source content gamut delivered …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Chris Chinnock
One of the important topics covered at the SMPTE conference was conversion from one color gamut to another. This is particularly important when content is encoded using XYZ or BT.2020 coefficients. Such content may …
Tags:BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| SMPTE 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 43| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)
by Bob Raikes
Advanced Television reported that the BBC said at the recent Mipcom event in Cannes that it is expanding the range of titles that it is creating with HDR and UltraHD now that there is …
Tags:BBC| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 44
by Bob Raikes
We recently reported on the Funbox channel from Sony Pictures International which had mentioned HDR and WCG in its marketing material (Funbox UHD Channel Goes Live) and we commented that we would check the …
Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 42
by Bob Raikes
The Hilander Blog recently attended a briefing in Korea by Dolby that summarised the progress on HDR with Dolby Vision. The text of the article is in Korean, but the slides are in English. …
Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Bob Raikes
Last week, we covered a release from IHS that suggested that HDR is mainly a benefit with UltraHD content (HDR Compatible Set Sales Bigger than HDR says IHS Markit). We’re happy to have got …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IHS Markit| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Bob Raikes
Sony Pictures International (SPI) has added an UltraHD application to the Amazon Fire TV and also made the UltraHD channel on the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite neighbourhood at 13º East fully active. The channel on …
Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 41
by Isaac Oburu
High dynamic range, also known as HDR, is a new category of 4K TVs that emerged in 2016. HDR TV shipments will reach more than 4 million units in 2016 and growth to more …
Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Market Data
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