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DVB Approves UltraHD-HDR Requirements

by Tom Allen

The DVB Steering Board has approved the commercial requirements for the next phase of UltraHD TV, which will be known as ‘UHD-1 Phase 2’. UHD-1 Phase 1 was approved in 2014, and simply covered …

Dolby and VUDU Launch the Future Home Theater Experience with Immersive Sound and Advanced Imaging

by Isaac Oburu

Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE:DLB) today announced that VUDU® customers now have access to a catalog of Warner Bros.®titles remastered for Dolby Vision™ and mixed in Dolby Atmos® to complete the cinematic home theater experience. …

Dolby Brings Dolby Vision to the Home

by Tom Allen

Dolby Laboratories has remastered multiple Warner Bros. titles for its HDR technology, Dolby Vision, and mixed in the Dolby Atmos audio technology to complement. Dolby has announced that Vudu customers with a Dolby Vision-enabled …

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DTG and German TV Platform Collaborate on UHD Plugfests

by Tom Allen

The DTG UK UHD Forum and German TV Platform are working together to test UltraHD TVs, receivers, content and connectivity as new services are developed. The first of a series of joint plugfests will …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Testing| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 46

CCW is now NAB Show New York

by Norbert Hildebrand

The CCW (Content and Communications World) in New York has adopted a new name and is now called NAB Show New York. It still contains the SatCon conference and adds InfoComm Connections as a …

QD Vision Discusses Developments and Competition

by Chris Chinnock

Quantum dot developer QD Vision has received a new round of investment led by Tsing Capital and BASF Venture Capital totaling approximately $22 million from both existing investors and new investors. The funds will …

Sony Shares First UHD & HDR Blu-Rays

by Tom Allen

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the first films that it will release using the UltraHD Blu-ray format. They will include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Hancock and Salt. Content will be rendered with “HDR”, …

HDR and Compression

by Chris Chinnock

With many “flavors” of HDR still being considered, what will that mean for the distribution part of the equation? That was one of the topics considered by several speakers in the “Compression” sessions at …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

The BBC Explains Scene and Display Referred Systems and Impact on HLG

by Chris Chinnock

The terms “scene referred” and “display referred” have come up a lot lately in discussions about HDR workflows and the transforms needed to capture and display this wider dynamic range content. A paper by …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

The BBC Explains Hybrid Log Gamma for HDR

by Chris Chinnock

A paper by Tim Borer and Andrew Cotton from the BBC Research & Development team at the SMPTE fall conference shed more light on what Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) is and why it may …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44

ST 2094 Focuses on Dynamic Metadata (part 2)

by Chris Chinnock

ST 2094 is quite flexible allowing the use of windows to do specific transforms. That means a window may be used to apply a different transform for a bright highlight or dark region of …

Grass Valley Gets Ready for HDR Live TV Production

by Chris Chinnock

Grass Valley’s Sr. product Manager for Cameras, Klaus Weber, recently hosted a webinar on HDR (High Dynamic Range) for live TV production and also gave a paper at the SMPTE conference covering similar ground. …

Tags:Cameras| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44