Rec 2020 – Page 2 – Display Daily

Kazlas: “Quantum Dots Are the Only Path to Rec.2020”

by Tom Allen

Peter Kazlas is director of advanced product development at QD Vision, which produces Color IQ quantum dots; these began to be shipped in early 2013. Color IQ optics use red and green QDs with …

Color Gamuts and Getting To “True” Colors

by Steve Sechrist

A Kingswood, Surrey BBC engineer once told me that in his R&D lab, NTSC was an acronym for “Never Twice the Same Color” (Ha!) and even though this was a light swipe at our …

Tags:Measurement| Rec 2020| Rec 709| Vol 23 - Issue 15

Quantum Dots to Give Perovskites a Run for Their Money

by Matthew Brennesholtz

In a recent Display Daily, I discussed how Quantum Dot (QD) manufacturers should be looking over their shoulders at perovskites. The reason that QD manufacturers can look in that direction at perovskites is that …

Could P3 Be the Next Stage for WCG?

by Bob Raikes

I seem to have spent a lot of the last few weeks talking about, looking at and thinking about display colour. Although we have published a huge amount about high dynamic range (HDR), with …

3M Advances 2020 Primary Tolerances Work

by Chris Chinnock

At last year’s SMPTE conference, James Hillis from 3M described some tests they had done to try to determine how far the 2020 color primaries can move and still be indistinguishable from a true …

Tags:Colour Certification| Large Display Monitor| Rec 2020| SMPTE 2015| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

The Problem with the “Standard Observer”

by Chris Chinnock

Much of the color standards and color calibration methods and instruments are based upon the “standard observer.” This is supposed to represent the average human’s color perception, as defined in 1931. But there is …

Tags:Colour (Color)| Colour Quality| Large Display Monitor| Rec 2020| SMPTE 2015

Metamerism Updates from David Long

by Chris Chinnock

It is possible for a variety of spectrally unique (and different) stimuli to produce identical visual responses. Spectrally variant color stimuli that are perceived identically are known as metamers. With display-rendered imagery, the objective …

SRI Shows off New HDR and WCG Patterns at SMPTE 2015

by Bob Raikes

SRI was showing several 4K patterns that can be helpful in understanding color transforms in HDR and WCG content.

Tags:Rec 2020| SMPTE 2015| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

3M to Propose Changes to New BT2020 Color Standard at SMPTE Fall Event

by Chris Chinnock

The new UHD TV specification calls for an expanded color gamut called BT2020. But no current TVs can meet the specification because the red, green and blue primaries are specified without a tolerance. And, …

TCL & QD Vision Demonstrate the Future of Wide Color Gamut Television at IFA

by Helen Vince

TCL, its subsidiary CSOT, and QD Visionhave collaborated to develop a television that produces over 90% of the Rec. 2020 color gamut standard for UHD displays. This advancement is made possible by the unique …

Tags:CSOT| IFA 2015| QD Vision| Quantum Dots| Rec 2020| TCL

Canal+ Group Chose Envivio

by Tom Allen

Envivio has said that it supplied encoding support to the Canal+ Group, for its trial satellite and OTT distribution of the UEFA Champions League final in UltraHD last month. Envivio’s Muse UltraHD solution was …

SID 2015 Round-Up

by Bob Raikes

CCDL was showing a 6mm pitch LED stereo 3D display based on a polariser over each pixel, and these have polarising filters that are arranged to alternate in chirality. The firm told us that …