Flash back to some analysis from over 1½ years ago….
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Originally Posted by Penton-Man
...when increased color bit depth, HDR and HFR are added to the 4K recipe. We’ve already discussed the former (color) on previous pages here.
As to the middle factor, that’s quite a complex subject which I would have to postpone discussing for another day when I have much more time. Suffice to say that HDR is on the far horizon but, is of great significance since current displays come nowhere near to that of approaching the dynamic range of the human visual system, so HDR will not be on the order of a marginal change, but rather, a marked, almost revolutionary change to improvement of the viewing experience…..once the scientists/engineers can get it *to work*. But they are working on it, esp. those from Dolby…
http://conferences.smpte.org/content.../1.17.abstract
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2077451.2077484
As for the last factor (HFR), or essentially increasing the temporal resolution, the industry already has the capable cameras. And producing 4K HFR capable displays won’t be a huge hurdle, more like the next small obstacle; however, the big hole is the distribution chain between the camera and the display. Intelligent minds at Sony and Panasonic are working on that production infrastructure as we speak.
But the bottom line is that they’ll come a day that even the most skeptical of 4K critics...will look back upon the introduction and sales of initial consumer 4K tv’s as being, at the very least, a necessary prerequisite stepping stone in the progression towards a more optimal home-viewing experience with digital displays. |
Flash forward to yesterday published on YouTube from IBC2014 Amsterdam…
With that ^ in mind, next year people will be seeing more and more news/demos about the implementation of HDR with movies, esp. if the industry is impressed with
Emma. I think in regards to motion pictures
originally finished in LDR (low dynamic range, which has been the traditional delivered dynamic range), that any of those oldie but goodie motion pictures which are remastered in HDR…that the Director or his legitimately relevant proxy, meaning the DP rather than some assistant producer, assistant editor, etc. have
active involvement in the remastering process.
We don’t want something like
this occurring yet again, but this time with increased dynamic range rather than color tint, by any studio executive…because any HDR ‘reimagining’ should be
actively supervised by the filmmaker himself as I don’t think folks should see things/changes in a new version unless they are assured that the Director himself unequivocally wants viewers to see them.
In fact, some Directors (you can fill in the blank in the last paragraph with the name Steven Soderbergh) have explicitly stated that with some of their work, they do
not want anyone “to conform and re-scan the film negative and re-color time the film to potentially take advantage of any improvements
in scanning and digital intermediate technology”…
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ht#post2325081
Sooo, point being, I’m all for HDR
(color timing at greater than 100 nits for home versions) of brand spanking new content but, we should be careful with how we treat old movies originally finished in LDR.
P.S.
Please note that the all-day symposium titled “Making Do With More” that will kick off the Society of Motion-Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) 2014 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition later this month will
now be held at Hollywood’s
historic El Capitan Theatre…
https://www.smpte.org/smpte2014/symposium
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