Value Electronics 2015 Flat Panel Shootout at CE Week

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

When I get around to it, I’ve got to watch that entire video....

I did this afternoon because we had a lot of rain hereabouts today which cut my riding time significantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZWW...tu.be&t=32m45s

Stacey (from SpectraCal), yes….true, re-mastering of previously shot movies for HDR is being done now. But, for the best quality HDR, you want to have had everything in 16-bit…. 16-bit RAW capture with your digital camera, high quality (floating point) color processing with a 16-bit openEXR workflow (which will retain as much dynamic range as was in the original capture) and then re-grading in HDR from the original 16-bit P3 theatrical master renders which are rendered out in PQ ((ST 2084) BT. 2020.

Is everyone doing that?.....and, over the course of time, will some content providers succumb to the temptation of using inferior sources in order to blow out an HDR title….to make some easy money? Sure, anyone can make HDR versions of 10 or 12-bit content look better than the original SDR version, but if one uses a 16-bit source, one will get significantly better results. One studio has already proven this with their internal testing.

P.S.
Got a call it a win for Derek on the poker face thing (I plan never on playing cards with that guy ), as it looks to me like Stacey cracks a wee bit of a smile at the end….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZWW...u.be&t=1h4m40s