Value Electronics 2015 Flat Panel Shootout at CE Week

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by raygendreau

Did any of you see the Kane HDR demo on the Samsung? If yes, your comments?

After somebody from Canada posted the link on this forum to the interview with Joe back in Oct. 2013, I took issue with his rather dismissive attitude toward Dolby because he portrayed Dolby Vision to listeners as being solely about Highlights….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtL8...u.be&t=1h1m45s

That was simply wrong and a rather unfair characterization because Dolby, not Joe, has been one of the defacto leaders in HDR research and development [at least since ’07 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BrightSide_Technologies ]).

Before the time of that interview in October 2013, apparently unbeknownst to Joe (and Scott), but posted here (in the Tech forum of Blu-ray.com), it was discussed that Dolby had already explicitly stated and showed data from testing with independent observers that it’s a factor of going darker as well as brighter because it’s the full range that totally immerses the audience.

For example, one of Dolby’s charts to make that very point…



Also, for further reading to those having interest, I posted these links to papers/presentations/talks expressing as such
https://talks.stanford.edu/scott-daly-timo-kunkel/ 2012

Preference limits of the visual dynamic range for ultra high quality and Aesthetic Conveyance, S. Daly, T.Kunkel, X.Sun, S. Farrell and P. Crum (2013) SPIE Electronic Imaging, HVEI, Burlingame, CA, Feb 2013

Viewer Preferences for Shadow, Diffuse, Specular and Emissive Luminance Limits of High Dynamic Range Displays, S. Daly, T. Kunkel, X. Sun, S. Farrell, and P. Crum (2013) SID Display Week May 2013, paper 41.1, Vancouver, Canada.

Demographics of viewer preference for the luminance limits of Displayed Dynamic range imagery, S. Farrell, S. Daly, T. Kunkel, and P. Griffis (2013) SMPTE Australia, July.

I’m hoping that the HDR demo/discussion at the recent shootout event was more accurate and cutting edge than the “geeky” information provided in that past podcast….where there was also some lack of knowledge regarding the development of HEVC at the time.