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by Tom Allen
2015 hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow’s releases will be richer, better and there will …
Tags:Augmented Reality| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Virtual Reality| Vol 22 - Issue 47
by Chris Chinnock
The SMPTE 2015 Fall Conference is history now, but as usual, it was an information-packed event in Hollywood. Our focus was on displays, high dynamic range, color management and virtual reality for the most …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44
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
by Chris Chinnock
There was not much content or discussion of high frame rate at the SMPTE fall conference this year, but there was a lot of paper on HDR and related issues. However, a talk by …
Tags:HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44
by Chris Chinnock
We had a chance to talk to Netflix at the SMPTE conference about a range of topics. We found them quite open to discussing details. For example, the company is now requesting that all …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44
by Chris Chinnock
Our meetings in the SMPTE Exhibition area focused on display technology. At 3M, we saw numerous demonstrations of quantum dot displays integrated into products. 3M manufactures the QDEF film that contains quantum dots from …
Tags:3M (MMM)| Asus| Broadcast Monitors| Large Display Monitor| Nanosys| Quantum Dots| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44
by Chris Chinnock
Andy Rosen from Bitlogic and Dan Brunner from Microsoft gave a compelling demonstration in the Display session at the SMPTE conference where they showed some interesting artifacts that they say are attributable to the …
Tags:Desktop Monitors| HFR - High Frame Rate| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| Vol 22 - Issue 44
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
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
by Chris Chinnock
Josef Marc of Archimedia Technology gave a presentation that resonates well with me – and perhaps with the audience. He espoused that the way we talk about image quality and control its attributes are …
Tags:Large Display Monitor| SMPTE 2015| TV Viewing| Vol 22 - Issue 44
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)
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
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