Evaluation of High Dynamic Range TVs using Actual HDR Content. Sungjin Kim, Yongmin Park, Dongwoo Kang, Jongjin Park, Jangjin Yoo, Jonguk Bae and Sooyoung Yoon. LG Display Co. © 2018, Society for Imaging Science and Technology A couple years ago, the Classy Tech Calibrations YouTube channel used the Spears & Munsil UHD disc to demonstrate... Continue Reading →
Why Is This Person Even Allowed Near A TV?
Kevin Miller, President of ISFTV: Display & Video Source Product Development Consultant and ISF Calibrator and Level III Instructor for the Imaging Science Foundation, doubted me when I said that my Sony A95L QD-OLED TV had atrocious artifacts when playing Dolby Vision content, writing; “I have calibrated at least 20 Sony A95Ls and not seen... Continue Reading →
Streamers (Incl. Apple TV+) Should Heed This Apple Engineer’s Advice
The best practice is to enable EDR when there is both HDR content and potential EDR headroom available. Disable EDR when this is not the case. - Ken Greenebaum, Engineering Manager, Apple Apple engineering manager Ken Greenebaum advises developers to enable EDR only when the user will see the difference. EDR stands for extended dynamic... Continue Reading →
Team 2 Films Leon Barnard Blunder Fest
Leon Barnard, a certified Blackmagic Design trainer and host of Team 2 Films, a YouTube channel with over 76K subscribers, continues his track record of passing along bad advice and misinformation. Last year, he claimed that ARRI Log wasn’t suitable as a timeline color space and implied that commercial program material is mastered in BT.2020.... Continue Reading →
The Netflix “HDR” Scam
https://youtu.be/LIssWVQbiX0?si=VvWdQRZNRNX9LO5r Analysis of "HDR" Netflix Shows At a two-day Mini LED TV workshop hosted by TCL in Warsaw, the manufacturer put together a demonstration illustrating how Netflix shows aren’t taking advantage of the capabilities of HDR. Vincent Teoh reports: “This is a very cool demonstration by TCL about how some Netflix shows are graded so... Continue Reading →
Steve Yedlin’s Expertise Is A Sham
Steve Yedlin Wages War On HDR “When it comes to "formats" (i.e. colorspaces) as opposed to hardware, with the exception of one thing (how we use the excessive screen brightness available) which is a trade-off more than an advantage, the things that are actually different about HDR compared to SDR are all detriments, not advantages.... Continue Reading →
FSI CEO: We Don’t Want To Go All The Way To Rec. 2020
At NAB 2025, Larry Jordan spoke with Bram Desmet, CEO, Flanders Scientific, about color gamuts, brighter displays, monitoring HDR on set, future display technologies, color volume & more. In this excerpt, Bram explains why we don’t want Rec. 2020 as native device primaries. Larry Jordan: The big challenge we've got with HDR is, we've got... Continue Reading →
Users Prefer Video With No Film Grain
“I've got no great love lost for film grain and I think I can say I think I've managed to go all of 2022 without using film grain once. It's something you know, if the client says, 'Hey, we're doing film grain, give me your best version of it', then my answer is of course... Continue Reading →
We had HDR10+, now it’s gone. Some are saying it was a server-side change on Netflix’s part
A reddit member writes that Samsung is deliberately witholding support to sell new TVS: “Samsung has made it clear on its blog that HDR10+ will only be available on TVs from the 2025 line and that it will be supported in other models in the future (unknown). This means that we can forget about it... Continue Reading →
YouTuber Spreads Disinformation About Dolby Vision
YouTuber Patrick-Pierre Garcia misleads the public, implying that Dolby Vision is streamed at 12 bits. Dolby Vision is streamed at 10 bits. Also, contrary to the illustration shared in the video, which to date has reached 36K viewers, virtually all commercial Dolby Vision content is mastered in P3-D65 – not Rec. 2020. https://youtu.be/rC27pD-wZEc?si=BWM89mQBlfPcnVP5 “What happened... Continue Reading →
Peak Design Zippers Are Garbage
"Zipper durability has indeed been a challenge across certain product generations. And while we've made improvements over the years, upgrading materials, tweaking stress points and refining construction, we clearly still have work to do." - Peak Design "Every single one of my Peak Design bags that I've used daily has experienced the same failure. After... Continue Reading →
Don’t Buy Dehancer Plugin
If proper color management, working scene-referred or HDR are important to you, avoid the Dehancer plugin. For starters, it is limited to the Rec.709 color space. “Since Dehancer asked me to make an honest review, I will talk about them [the bad things]. The first one, which would instantly be a deal breaker for many... Continue Reading →
How the physical sensation of pupil contraction contributes to the pleasure derived from HDR media
“If you’re looking out a portal, and it’s 700 nits, that’s a load for your eye to respond to. We found ourselves opening up the shadows somewhat to compensate for people’s sensory reaction, where the pupil closes down due to bright light.” - Shelly Johnson, ASC, explaining how he subdued the contrast in Greyhound (2020)... Continue Reading →
