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Sony Tells HDR Story

by Chris Chinnock

Did you know that Sony has had TVs in the market for a year that can display content with expanded contrast and wider color gamut? Sounds like HDR right, well it is – sort …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| sony| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 19

Dolby Provides HDR Update

by Chris Chinnock

Dolby showed off elements of its HDR production workflow at NAB 2015 as well as content playing on the new HDR TVs from Vizio. These TVs were announced at CES 2014 and are late …

Tags:Dolby Vision| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Canon Shows HDR Displays and Workflow

by Chris Chinnock

Canon used NAB 2015 to show it HDR workflow as well as some new HDR monitors. It also introduced a new 15 f-stop camera, the C300 Mark II. To showcase all of this, it …

Tags:Canon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 17

goHDR Describes HDR Compression Approach

by Chris Chinnock

goHDR is a UK-based company that was at NAB 2015 to describe and show its HDR encoding solution. The company demonstrated real time capture, encode/decode and display of HDR content on an HDR display. …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Amazon to Offer HDR Content

by Chris Chinnock

Amazon used NAB to announce that it will be among the first to offer HDR content through its Amazon Prime Video service. These will arrive sometime in 2015. Amazon is producing it own original …

Tags:Amazon| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Technicolor Focuses on Good, Better and Best HDR

by Chris Chinnock

We had a chance to meet with Technicolor in a suite at NAB 2015 to learn more about its plans for HDR. At NAB, the company was mainly talking about what it is doing …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Technicolor| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Impressions from NAB 2015

by Chris Chinnock

I could not cover all the news from NAB 2015, but I can provide some impressions based on the companies I did meet with. You can see some of this coverage in videos posted …

Tags:Broadcast Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| NAB 2015| UltraHD & 4K| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Researchers Explore High Dynamic Range for Broadcast TV

by Aldo Cugnini

Speaking at NAB, Ericsson researcher Lukasz Litwic discussed the Implications of High Dynamic Range on the Broadcast Chain for HD and Ultra-HD Content. The talk described the need and impact of new Electro-Optical and …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| NAB 2015| Satellite| Terrestrial (DTT)| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Ericsson Wins Best Paper Award for HDR Compression Analysis

by Bob Raikes

At the recent NAB event, Ericsson won the Best Paper award for its paper “Implications of High Dynamic Range on the Broadcast Chain for HD and Ultra-HD Content” which was based on research done …

Tags:Ericsson| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Rec 709| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Sony’s TVs Have Official Pricing

by Tom Allen

Prices for Sony’s 2015 TVs (Sony’s TV is Slimmer Than a Smartphone) were leaked earlier this year (Sony TV Prices Shared), and have now been made available officially. There will be 14 models – …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| sony| Vol 22 - Issue 17

Sony Shows OLED 4K HDR Monitor

by Chris Chinnock

Sony showed a side-by-side demo of Standard Dynamic Range (SRD) vs. High Dynamic Range (HDR) on its new 4K OLED monitors at NAB 2015.

Tags:BBC| Broadcast Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| NAB 2015| OLEDs

Dolby Previews Dolby Vision in USA and Europe

by Tom Allen

The Dolby Vision HDR format will be launched on Vizio’s upcoming Reference series of TVs this year – but on 22nd May, you can experience Dolby Vision content for yourself with the premiere of …

Tags:Back Panel| Broadcast| Dolby Vision| Europe| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| USA| Vol 22 - Issue 17