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https://youtu.be/43NwBvCT1gk?si=I5Zu2Z6HmQpizsuD Incidentally, in the video, Dave says, “It’s important to note that on the Asus monitor, the internal pattern generator is not not supported for HDR.” 😱 Why 8-bit in HDR? What's the point of a 10-bit colour monitor then? Some are asking why Dave Abrams sets the test pattern generator to 8 bits rather... Continue Reading →
Warning: NSFW Walter Volpatto, Sr. Colorist, Picture Shop, argues that HDR causes discomfort because, unlike in real life where the scene before us occupies our entire field of view, we’re watching TV in a dark room where the picture occupies a much smaller field of view, forcing our pupils to open up, making the image... Continue Reading →
To the best of our knowledge, Paolo Centofanti at DDay.it is the only TV reviewer measuring color volume using Kenichiro Masaoka’s gamut rings and now TFT Central’s Simon Baker deserves a big round of applause for adopting XCR to measure perceived brightness in his monitor reviews. It’s well worth your time to read the entire... Continue Reading →
The Flanders XMP550 QD-OLED reference mastering monitor vs. the Sony Bravia XR A95L on Calman’s rigorous ColorMatch test, which measures the performance of the display with samples extracted from true HDR content. Both displays use panels from Samsung Display. The Flanders was measured by Linus Tech and the Sony measurements are from Digital Day. Pretty... Continue Reading →
“Hi, my names Rich and I'm a media engineer for Animal Logic in Vancouver, Canada. One of our DI colorists told me about your website and forums [liftgammagain], so I thought I'd share what we've been doing in order to try and turn off the fabled dimming on the LG G3. We got a Canadian... Continue Reading →
The MicroLED Industry Association (MIA) has published MicroLEDs 2023: State of the industry and future roadmap, a non-member summary of the full document, which paints a bleak picture for those of us who were hoping to snatch a 77” microLED TV before being dispatched to an assisted living residence. MicroLED Market and Industry Landscape Mass... Continue Reading →
Update 30.05.2024: During a Dolby Vision Technical Webinar, Nate McFarlin refers to a 'new' A95L shown beside the BVM-HX3110 reference mastering monitor at NAB that comes with ASBL disabled out of the box. This must have been the FWD commercial version. Update 18.04.2024: “Sony can provide custom firmware to Hollywood studios to disable panel ABL... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/oYVy_P2_R7o?si=tXr_lrgNmodcUGTi In his review of the Sony A95L, Paolo Centofanti wrote: “Usually, the software calibrates on the native panel range of 2.2, while with a special LUT invisible to the user, the TV adapts the parameters for other gamma values and the different curves of the various HDR modes. The problem we have encountered is that... Continue Reading →
Samsung Display's marketing materials imply that no color filters are used in their QD-OLED displays, which is not 100% true. High color gamut requires very low blue light leakage. As can be seen in the illustrations, without any color filters at all, blue light leakage will occur in the red and green channels, impacting gamut... Continue Reading →
The smallest observer metamerism magnitude (OMM) index was found to be between Rec.709 and DCI-P3, the two display color spaces with the broadest spectra. OMM indices induced by the display Rec.2020 100% are nearly twice as large as those of display Rec.2020 90%. Effect of color gamut and luminance on observer metamerism in HDR displays,... Continue Reading →
Tom Graham, Head of Dolby Vision Content Enablement, asked three top colorists working in film & television - all senior colorists at Picture Shop - how they felt their work looks on consumer displays. TG: Some colorists will say, ‘I don’t watch my stuff on TV, I've already watched the show’, but how do you guys... Continue Reading →
Apparently, the only probe currently approved for calibrating the XMP550 with Volumetric AutoCal, the Colorimetry Research CR-100, costs as much as the Hyundai Elantra we barely managed to pay off before moving to South Korea in 2007. Source: Flanders Scientific Source: Flanders Scientific
The convention in the past 100 years of colorimetry has been to solely measure the response of the achromatic visual pathway when discussing brightness and human visual sensitivity. - Samsung Display “Samsung Display argues that 'perceived brightness' should be used rather than 'luminance' due to how our eyes and brain work. Samsung Display's XCR measurement... Continue Reading →
It's been six long years since the UHD Alliance announced their specifications for Ultra HD Premium requiring devices be able to display no less than 90% of the DCI-P3 color space - in area, not volume. Likewise, the EBU published User Requirements for Video Monitors in Television Production, which proposed now outmoded 2-D diagrams for evaluating color... Continue Reading →
postPerspective's Randi Altman interviewed Marvel Studios’ Senior Finishing Colorist Matt Watson during a virtual roundtable. Randi Altman: Do you often create LUTs for a project? How does that help? Matt Watson: Yes, we create show LUTs for every project. To be specific, we design our looks within the ACES framework as LMTs, which represent the visual... Continue Reading →
Nate McFarlin, currently Senior Content Engineer at Dolby Laboratories, talking about Canon's lineup of production monitors when he was still a Senior Quality Engineer Specialist at Canon USA: "Whenever we announce the next monitor with even higher brightness, there's a whole horde of people that are always extremely excited because now they have so much... Continue Reading →
At Display Week 2023, Dr. K. Masaoka demos software that is able to measure 600 patches and plot gamut rings in just sixty seconds. At Display Week 2023, the ever genial Brian Berkeley introduces Dr. Kenichiro Masaoka of NHK, the ‘father’ of BT2020, who demonstrates a new tool that can measure over 600 patches and... Continue Reading →
Andy Munitz, Professional Audio and PVM-X Series Monitor Sr. Product Manager, Sony, talked with ProductionHUBTV about the PVM 4K HDR monitors during lockdown. “We realized that in the world of monitoring that we're in today - and certainly if production 4K is really prevalent - and so we needed this monitor to be able to... Continue Reading →
With the announcement of the FSI XMP550, a 55” QD OLED with a peak brightness of 2,000 nits which will retail for $19,995 USD, it’s interesting to travel back in time 4 years, when Sony launched their dual layer LCD BVM-HX310, and listen to Bram Desmet, CEO, FSI, share his thoughts on the future of... Continue Reading →
Bram Desmet, CEO, Flanders Scientific, responds, “1,000 nits was enough because it's all we could do. The Dolby Pulsar was really the only display out there that people could really get their hands on that could reliably do over 1,000 nits well. The issue being, you couldn't even buy that, it was basically a lease-only... Continue Reading →
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