Wow I'm glad I waited to buy my 4k UHD TV

[Penton-Man]

Consumer shows like CES definitely help, but for some historical background, HDR content has been exhibited for a long time now at professional shows as well as at special invitation-only events in the L.A. area (similar to the Alexa 65 being shown to a select group of invited guests in Hollywood last year ). Good to see that social media writers are finally picking up on the HDR value part of the UHD recipe…..something that we’ve been discussing and writing about here for over 2 years….https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ry#post7325076

With details like cutting edge heads-up alerts (from over 6 months ago) to an open standard (2084) finalized in order to efficiently achieve that dynamic range…..https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...ar#post9754213

Along with continuing updates from the field….. https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...4#post10575341

We here in the Tech forum of Blu-ray.com always seem to be substantially ahead of the “Latest Industry News” sections of other consumer-related forums. For example, something which is poorly understood by consumer media, namely a better calibration procedure for display luminance levels and chromaticity (a topic which holds significant future implications for UHD displays and parameters with which they are attempting to support) ….was briefly mentioned early last month in discussion with Ray -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

When Sony first attempted to deal with metameric failure of their OLED displays they released a set of chromaticity xy offset values, that ranged from -0.001, -0.009, through -0.004, -0.013, depending on the probe used, and alternative display technology to be matched to.
In later documentation on the White Balance of BVM and PVM displays Sony reduced these values to a single set of xy offsets - x=-0.006, y=-0.011.....

On that note, I can inform folks that new SMPTE recommended practices to help solve some of these color matching problems is proceeding to publication and in a nutshell outlines/defines (different from past practices) how to set black point (visual) and white point (by meter with values forthcoming from respective display manufacturers) for reference displays….reference displays on which material is mastered for consumer viewing.

Will this new calibration practice find its way downstream to the consumer calibrator sector?