A recorded webinar from Axon CTO, Peter Schut about HDR and Wide Colour Gamut (WCG) covering
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Mark Watson from Netflix examines how to combine SDR and HDR video from many sources into one seamless experience. How do you manage the different colour spaces, the difference in dynamic range, the types of HDR? Mark talks about how the different delivery formats differ and presents ways in which they can be unified, representing the work that Netflix is putting in to create a rich, seamless and dynamic auto-playing user experience.
Time: 15:00 BST, Wednesday June 13th 2018
A review of current technology and real-world deployments
The competition for viewers’ eyeballs and their disposable income has never been fiercer. Great picture quality is one weapon that service providers – especially broadcasters – can deploy to attract and retain viewers.
It’s true that millions of 4K ready TVs have been sold, but in practice most TVs sold before 2017 don’t have any support for HDR at all. Many different variants of HDR have also emerged in an attempt to offer higher quality coupled with some backwards compatibility with those early TVs, but broadcasters have been perhaps understandably reluctant to commit to producing 4K or HDR content with the costs of the ill-fated 3DTV still on their books.
This webinar looks at HDR in general and the different variants that have emerged. The drive for 4K, or even 8K, content and displays is contrasted with consumers’ willingness to watch full HD with HDR on the latest mobile phone displays…
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Tyler Pruitt explains how HDR displays can be characterised and how this can be implemented. Based up on a technical paper here, this talk covers these topics and includes an extensive Q&A section.
• Rec 709 workflows
• Colour Volume Remapping
• Dynamic Metadata
• BT.2100 Calibration
• HDR Calibration
• HDR Bypass
• Colour Volume Profile Files
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