SMPTE 2017 – Display Daily

SMPTE 2017 Looks Forward to 8K

by Bob Raikes

The Society of Motion Picture and TV Engineers (or SMPTE), held its annual Technical Conference in Hollywood from the 23rd to the 26th of October. The event attracted 2,500 registered attendees and there were …

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VR Solution for Reviewing Multi-Screen Theatrical Configurations Described

by Chris Chinnock

Kyunghan Lee from KAI Inc. and Sungmin Cho from the Korean Film Council described a VR project they are working on to model multi-screen theatrical configurations. They started by noting two examples: the Barco …

TI Describes Method to Achieve Variable Frame Rates in Cinemas

by Chris Chinnock

Tim Ryan from TI’s DLP Cinema group gave a presentation on the way DLP cinema projectors can offer variable frame rates. The projectors can run at various frame rates already, but require time to …

Dolby Describes Theater Contrast Model and Measurement Data

by Chris Chinnock

Marty Richards of Dolby Laboratories presented a model for evaluating the actual contrast in a theater and then validated this model by showing data from several Dolby Vision theaters. The effort is similar to …

8K Production using HLG

by Chris Chinnock

Yuji Nagata from NHK gave a presentation describing an 8K HDR broadcast workflow based on HLG. While trial broadcast of 8K content started in August of 2017 in Japan, this will expand to regular …

Storytelling in 8K?

by Chris Chinnock

Cinematographer, Pierre H Routhier gave a presentation on storytelling in 8K. He wondered, for example, if there is more value from the filmmaker’s point of view in having more spatial resolution as opposed to …

8K-Tico Codec for Miniaturized and Simplified UHDTV Production Systems

by Chris Chinnock

Masayuki Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi Sakiyama, Takayuki Yamashita of Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said that they have developed a Tico (SMPTE RDD35:2016) codec for 8K ultrahigh-definition TV (8K-UHDTV) production. The codec works at a compression rate …

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An 8K Full Resolution 60-Hz/120-Hz Camera System

by Chris Chinnock

Tomohiro Nakamura from NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories described their new 8K portable camera. NHK has already developed a conventional 3-chip 8K broadcast camera, but it very large and expensive, so they developed …

Dolby Proposes Delta IcpCt as a Color Accuracy Metric for HDR Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Elizabeth Pieri and Jaclyn Pytlarz from Dolby Laboratories started their presentation by saying that the common color accuracy metric, delta E2000 (based on CIELAB), is actually not that accurate when used on HDR displays, …

SpectraCal Calls for a By-Pass Mode in HDR Displays

by Chris Chinnock

Tyler Pruitt from SpectraCal/Portrait Displays started his presentation by describing a big problem with HDR displays – color volume remapping (which he said includes tone mapping as well). This is needed when the color …

A Proposal for ACES 2.0

by Chris Chinnock

Gary Demos of Image Essence and Doug Walker from Autodesk Media & Entertainment gave a very good presentation on a new color management solution that they believe should be considered for the next version …

RIT Study Tries to Determine a Just Noticeable Difference with Frame Rate Perception

by Chris Chinnock

Elizabeth DoVale and David Long from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) started her presentation (which also won an award from SMPTE) by noting that as more films consider the possibility of shooting in …

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