According to Omdia, Apple will be completely phasing out LCDs and miniLEDs from its mobile devices by 2026. source
Apple To Phase Out LCDs and miniLEDs By 2026
How To Use Cullen Kelly’s Exposure Chart DCTL For 18% Middle Gray
Pick up your free 18% Middle Gray Chart here.
Gamut Rings Greatly Overemphasize Light Areas of Color Volume
“Arbitrarily placing the HDR peak intensity white at L=100 grossly distorts the Lightness curve, and would not be a good Lightness predictor.” Chris Lilley, W3C, 2020 Charles Poynton and David A. LeHoty argue that the color volume metrics used to calculate gamut rings are flawed, greatly overestimating actual coverage, allowing manufacturers to make exaggerated claims... Continue Reading →
Why a 10% test pattern is so signifcant
The luminance just falls off a cliff beyond the 10% window on this display, so it must be useless for grading HDR, right? Actually, it's still used to this day by LA-based post-production houses and around the world for mastering shows for Amazon, Netflix, Disney et al. Read on. Photo: Brian Florian
DaVinci Resolve 18.5 Public Beta Color Page Additions
Per-Timeline Resolve Color Management Timelines using custom settings now allow you to override color management settings on a per timeline basis. This allows setting of independent timeline and output color spaces per timeline along with other color management properties. Any existing custom timelines are automatically initialized to color management settings from the project. Set Composite... Continue Reading →
Samsung Display: The Display Industry Must Switch From P3 To BT2020
From the '2023 OLED Korea Conference' at UBI's '2023 OLED Korea Conference' held in Incheon on the April 13th: “Quantum Dot (QD)-OLED production has exceeded 90%,” said Seonho, vice president of strategic marketing, large-scale Samsung Display. Samsung Display raised the QD-OLED production rate to more than 85% in the first half of last year.“To implement... Continue Reading →
We Try Out The Ninja V + Komodo
After nearly a year, we finally got up the nerve to connect our Ninja V to the RED Komodo and to our great surprise, it didn't fry the SDI port! While our tinkering around with the Atomos Ninja V & Komodo didn’t produce great art it did allow us to discover that, although RED’s creative... Continue Reading →
Sony Announces New Virtual Production Tool Set
From Sony’s press release: Sony Electronics Inc. is announcing a new Virtual Production Tool Set to help improve pre-production and on-set workflows. The new tool set works with the Sony VENICE, Crystal LED and other HDR-enabled LED walls to improve performance and help solve common virtual production challenges such as color matching and moiré to... Continue Reading →
Italian Tech Website Publishes Color Volume Gamut Rings Results Of Flagship TVs
A member over at avsforum shared gamut rings color volume results for Panasonic, Sony, LG and Samsung TVs from Italian tech website DDay.
Familiarity with HDR may increase appetite for greater luminance
“The average observer preference for dark luminance is 0.1 cd/m2 and diffusive white luminance 650cd/m2 (contrast of 6500:1). Note that state-of-the-art consumer TVs exhibit a peak luminance and contrast range close to the average observer preference. However, the 90-percentile observer preferred a dark luminance of 0.005 cd/m2 and a diffusive luminance of 3 800 cd/m2... Continue Reading →
Dolby Engineer: Some of our partners are using LG TVs for mastering Dolby Vision
Just the other day, Nate McFarlin, Senior Content Engineer, Dolby Laboratories, NY, wrote: "Dolby doesn't approve specific displays for content creation/grading. We'll always recommend you use the highest quality (reference-grade) display as possible, but we have plenty of clients and partners that use other display options for their work (including LG TVs). Ultimately, it's up to... Continue Reading →
LG Display CTO: Luminance Is The First Priority
Reiji Asakura visited LG Display in Korea in September of last year and took the opportunity to ask CTO Yoon Soo-young whether he felt RGBW OLED was inferior to QD-OLED. “The problem is not whether the light source is white or RGB, but whether the spectrum of light emitted from the display is finally the... Continue Reading →
DaVinci Resolve: Prevent Power Windows From Appearing On External Monitor
In earlier versions of DaVinci Resolve, to prevent power windows from appearing on an external monitor, we went to View > Window Outline and checked Only UI. That option has been moved to within the three dots menu in the Color page viewer as shown in the photo below.
DR Studio: For The Greatest Flexibility, Set Input & Output DRTs To ‘None’
In DaVinci Resolve Studio, setting output DRT to RED IPP2 is not a solution (it was made for SDR - in HDR, it results in lifted blacks) and RED's own output transform LUT created in REDCINE-X with contrast set to medium and highlight roll-off set to soft does not look good in HDR, which is... Continue Reading →
HDR Comparison: LG G2 vs. LG G3
Vincent Teoh compares the LG G2 and LG G3. Shot with the Sony a7s III and graded in DaVinci Resolve using an M1 Max MacBook Pro and LG 32EP950. The monitoring setup looks awfully familiar! https://youtu.be/ppxGIU18Cx8
The Daejeon Chronicles 