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UltraHD Forum Updates its Phase 1 Guidelines

by Chris Chinnock

At NAB 2016, the UHD Forum issued a set of guidelines designed to help broadcasters make decisions on the deployment of 4K and HDR services in the near term. At IBC 2016, it announced …

Two New White Papers on the Value of Wide and Accurate Color

by Isaac Oburu

Insight Media has published two new white papers that describe the basics of color science, the trends toward wider color gamut displays and projectors and the value of these wider colors in two vertical …

HDR Production Needs Monitoring Tools – Tektronix has a Solution

by Chris Chinnock

Capture and production of HDR content is a hot topic of discussion – and we expect a great deal of developments at IBC shortly. But how do you know you are capturing signals correctly? …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 34| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

A Day with Charles Poynton

by Chris Chinnock

I recently had the opportunity to attend a workshop with Charles Poynton, a renowned mathematician and video expert. The informal workshop took place in New York with just a few others, providing a great …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Vol 23 - Issue 32| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

HDR Delivery Pipeline Still Developing

by Chris Chinnock

That’s the conclusion of a recent webcast hosted by Broadband Technology Report that featured Mark Francisco from Comcast, David Price from the UHD Forum and Steve Christian from Verimatrix, a provider of a comprehensive …

Quested Provides Perspective on ITU-2100 HDR Spec

by Chris Chinnock

The chairman of the ITU-R subcommittee responsible for the recent release of IUT-2100 is Andy Quested, who is also an employee of the BBC. We had a chance to speak with him recently to …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| Vol 23 - Issue 28| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Retailers Discuss Market at CE Week

by Chris Chinnock

A panel session made up of a retailer, advertiser, content creator (Fox – not shown in photo below) and two manufacturers (LG and Samsung) took place at CE Week in New York recently. Not …

Value Electronics UHD Shoot-out at CES Week

by Chris Chinnock

Retailer Value Electronics, working with AVPro and ISF founder Joel Silver, offered a series of seminars at CE Week that was billed as a “shoot out” between four UHD HDR TVs. Participants were given …

Calibrating HDR TVs Will Get Easier

by Chris Chinnock

Samsung Electronics was at the CE Week event in New York City showcasing their new HDR calibration disc along with a complete UHD/HDR calibration workflow featuring the CalMan software from SpectraCal. The disc and …

Dell Achieves 99% DCI-P3 – With LCD

by Tom Allen

A new LCD monitor, spotted on Dell’s Chinese website, boasts very wide colour gamut coverage and factory calibration. Known as the UP3017 (not to be confused with the UP3017Q, an OLED monitor seen at …

DS29 Digital Projection Likes LED for WCG

by Bob Raikes

Phil Laney is from Digital Projection Inc (DPI). The company invented the DLP with TI in the 1990s, Laney said. His topic was wide colour and by this he meant ‘beyond Rec. 709’. There …

DS18 QD Vision Proposes ColorNits

by Bob Raikes

Peter Kazlas is from QD Vision and he gave a brief introduction to his company and QD technology. He talked about the 3M research that showed that some consumers prefer HDR and better colour …

Tags:Display Summit 2016| Infocomm 2016| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 24| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)