HDR – High Dynamic Range – Page 68

Testing Resolution with Quality.TV

by Tom Allen

Quality.TV, founded last year by Florian Friedrich (CEO of AVTop) and Joe Kane (CEO of Joe Kane Productions and journalist), introduced a universal test for UltraHD and FullHD in 2015, which was designed to …

New Test Content Available for HDR Tone Mapping Evaluation

by Chris Chinnock

With the advent of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG) displays, a new need to do conversions of color volume and gray scale has arrived. That is because there will be …

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HDR Coming for DirectX

by Tom Allen

Microsoft announced that it will implement HDR support in the DirectX 12 API at GDC 2016. A timescale was not provided or details of what will be included.

Live 4K Streaming Trials Exclusive to Sony 4K HDR Ultra HD TVs

by Isaac Oburu

Sony Electronics announced today that it has participated in successful streaming trials of live 4K sporting events, including the first live North American soccer broadcast in 4K by Univision Deportes. These events, streamed live …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| sony| UltraHD & 4K

Ang Lee’s HFR Film Previewed at NAB

by Tom Allen

Director Ang Lee’s next project – which he announced at CinemaCon 2015 would be shot at 120fps – will be previewed at NAB in April. The film, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, will also …

Dolby Vision Coming to Amazon Video

by Tom Allen

Amazon has said that it will begin to stream Dolby Vision content ‘soon’, in addition to the HDR10 content is began to offer last summer. LG’s new Super UHD (2016) TVs will be the …

Metadata Changes Coming for HDMI 2.1

by Tom Allen

Flat Panels HD has picked up a snippet of news from a Philips whitepaper, which indicates the inclusion of dynamic metadata in HDMI 2.1. The HDMI Forum has not yet acknowledged the existence of …

Ericsson Ensures QoE

by Tom Allen

Ericsson had what might have been the largest stand at the show, taking up one entire end of a hall by itself. However, the majority of the space was invitation-only, and only open to …

Panasonic Brings Full 2016 TV Line to Europe

by Tom Allen

Panasonic showed its new flagship LCD TV, the DX900, at CES this year (Panasonic uses ‘Honeycomb’ for HDR), but no other finished TVs were present. However, the company has now revealed the its European …

Samsung Changes TVs in Europe

by Tom Allen

At its European Forum (Samsung Highlights CES Products in Monaco), Samsung showed off its newest LCD TVs, including the SUHD sets. These had some minor differences to the models shown at CES last month …

Sony Electronics’ New Premium 4K HDR Ultra HD TVs Now Available

by Isaac Oburu

Sony Electronics announced the pre-sale today for its newest lineup of 4K HDR Ultra HD televisions, the XBR-X850D and the XBR-X930D/XBR-X940D series, with exclusive Sony picture enhancing technologies. Powered by Sony’s 4K Processor X1™ …

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Sony Demos Its Latest Projectors

by Chris Chinnock

Sony had special press and installer meetings in New York in early February where we got a chance to see and discuss its 2016 home projector models as well as the latest UHD TVs …