HDR Discussion Thread

[Lee A Stewart]

Originally Posted by mrtickleuk

Indeed. 24fps has the unique cinematic feel. Anything higher than 24fps looks like behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage on the DVD extras. Always has, always will.

Never seen a 70mm 30 FPS production have you?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Waboman

Now lets get back to what's important. More pole pics!

still on vacation , now down San Diego County way in dem mountains east of here –



meanwhile for those with the iPhone 12, this feature better than nuthin –

How to Encode DOLBY VISION on the iPhone 12 | MasterHDRVideo - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

still on vacation , now down San Diego County way in dem mountains

that means riding Noble Canyon Trail, (where the rocks are not all smooth and rounded like on the Tokyo Olympic Mountain bike course) e.g. -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHNuMuS3GOY#t=3m15s

whereas, for you indoorsy folks, if you’re a visual enthusiast always looking to increase your knowledge base about Dolby Vision, creating or not, this Masterclass is free and open to all - https://indiafilmproject.co/dolby-masterclass/

meanwhile, after a long day in the saddle, hunting for the best pie in Julian

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Tokyo Olympic

https://www.sportsvideo.org/2021/07/...-to-primetime/
^ including input from Michael

thoughts go out to Connor Fields, sounds like a small, stable extracerebral collection not needing evacuation now - https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...ys/5438955001/

[Penton-Man]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...w#post18698145
^ Kris, (disregarding the manufacturing delay), seems the player dudes are waiting with baited breath for your review on the Reavons, as speculation abounds

[gkolb]

Originally Posted by gkolb

We had a little party at the end of May!

It's July 1 and there's been some awful heat on the West and East of N America, up LOTR's way I heard of over 120F three days in a row! Be safe one and all. Where I am it's over 100F for 5 days in a row and the forecast for next 7 days are all over 100. Got our A/C tuned up last month for the summer.

Viewers here have been busy. This morning it's 9,418,524 minus 9,135,668 end of May = 282,856. Everyone be safe in USA for the Independence Day celebrations and go buy a new HDR release.

There are good ones coming, i've got six new HDR releases arriving this month.

It's August 1st. I got distracted last night by the marathon broadcast of 4th Round Olympic golf, which went overtime 2 hours (ended 2 am here local time) for the 3rd Place playoff of a seven way tie. Happy to see Xander Schauffele of USA get the gold medal!

Lots of excellent shots made (and not made). That's why they play the matches.

As for HDR fans, we had 9,556,655 visits to this thread, minus 9,418,524 from July 1. Diff. is 138,131 for last 31 days. (About 4456 a day average.)

Everything seems tickety-boo ( ), and Cheers to everyone here, especially the visitors.

[DanBa]

About filmmaker's intent: "HDR10+ specifies the metadata, not how the tone mapper will use that information, so its behavior will be less predictable than Dolby Vision, where Dolby provides the tone mapper and certification as well." [Ben Waggoner, Principal Video Specialist, Amazon Prime Video]
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...37#post1909437

"HDR10+ does not specify how the metadata gets utilized by the target display." [Penton]
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/uni...#post-57086960


Dolby Vision 4.0 is not equivalent to Dolby Vision 2.9 or HDR10+ or a good dynamic tone mapped HDR10.

But all these HDR are at a good rendering level for most consumers.
At the end of the day, it's content that matters most (Lawrence of Arabia (in DV), Alien (in HDR10+) ...), not content format.

And there are TV supporting all these HDR + HLG (broadcasting ...).




"No Dolby Vision" will result in an untenable situation for Samsung: potential QD-OLED Panasonic TV with Dolby Vision & HDR10+ against potential QD-OLED Samsung TV with only HDR10+.
http://www.businesskorea.co.kr/news/...ml?idxno=50853

First step in the right direction: Samsung "supports" Dolby Vision




More interesting tweets from other people on this Twitter thread
https://twitter.com/DanielBa78/statu...74333505060869

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by DanBa

...."HDR10+ does not specify how the metadata gets utilized by the target display." [Penton]
https://www.avsforum.com/threads/uni...#post-57086960

early 2018 - https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...y#post14750911
now seems like ages ago. Alas, these days the dinner conversation my wife and I have with friends is about small molecule inhibitors as potentially being the next significant thing in peoples’ lives.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by DanBa

Dolby

scope, among other things: “Interest in consumer technology and/or the entertainment industry including movies, music, and games”, here - a paid internship, plus you can work remotely from home anywhere in the US – https://careers.dolby.com/job/San-Fr.../?locale=en_US

[DanBa]

"Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12"

I have to get a copy of the San Francisco Police Code.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by DanBa

"Dolby will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of San Francisco Police Code, Article 49, and Administrative Code, Article 12"

I have to get a copy of the San Francisco Police Code.

In accordance with so called ban the box ordinances and laws - https://www.littler.com/publication-...tract-city-san which some other states have adopted.

It’s intended to help reintegrate into society people who may have made prior illegal mistakes in life by offering a better chance at job re-entry. Basically, it prohibits employment application criminal history inquiries until the first job interview and then, the way I understand it, in making an employment decision based on an applicant’s conviction history, the employer shall conduct an individualized assessment considering directly related convictions as well as the time that has elapsed since the conviction and “Unresolved Arrest, and any evidence of inaccuracy or Evidence of Rehabilitation or Other Mitigating Factors”,
which, by the way, I don’t think was considered in this case -

BLUE BAYOU - "Where You From" Clip - Only in Theaters September 17 - YouTube

[Penton-Man]

regarding LordoftheRings neck of the woods -

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

a view from our hotel room –



some background on the top floors of the hotel (to be precise, H.H. lived there for 5 months and 28 days to avoid triggering a Canadian tax event) –
Howard Hughes 2nd Last Home: Bayshore Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - YouTube

this - https://deadline.com/2021/08/walt-di...if-1234809175/

[LexInHD]

Today, I connected a Samsung UHD-BD player that I picked up at a thrift store and was pleasantly surprised that it passed HDR10 to my Samsung LED HDTV that happens to have basic HDR10 functionality in the panel. I tested out a few discs and the results were nice, albeit at 1080P. The HDR wasn't eye-popping, but enough to improve the picture quality over a BD, especially with the greater detail from the down-scaled 4K picture.

[Penton-Man]

Robert Z., after you get the Sony Z9J and forthcoming X95J unboxed and calibrated, see if the same size Z9J is noticeably brighter when showing the same content (be it UHD Blu-rays or SDR non-physical media) - https://www.avsforum.com/threads/son...#post-60913116

[Robert Zohn]

Will ^ do. Just an educated guess, but I expect the Z9J to be noticeable brighter than the X95J. Many more local dimming zones and backlit LEDs in the Z9J.

Just more educated guesses, but I expect the X95J to go up to 1,650 nits and the same size Z9J to be capable to reach 2,500+ nits peak luminance.

[DDH]

Understanding Ultra HD OTT Interop – Progress and Learnings


https://www.smpte.org/webcast/unders...ings?hsLang=en


How to deploy UHD, the bleeding edge of standards and the need for guidelines 


https://www.smpte.org/webcast/how-to...ines?hsLang=en

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Robert Zohn

Will ^ do. Just an educated guess, but I expect the Z9J to be noticeable brighter than the X95J. Many more local dimming zones and backlit LEDs in the Z9J.

Just more educated guesses, but I expect the X95J to go up to 1,650 nits and the same size Z9J to be capable to reach 2,500+ nits peak luminance.

Looking forward to your assessment. Sony may have its faults as described by poster(s) in that thread; however, on the other hand, when motivated they can be on the cutting edge of display technology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuACfSY0qtA#t=6m47s

leading to many applications, including in –
https://blog.unity.com/entertainment...ay-using-unity

GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE Vignette — Sony’s Spatial Reality Display - YouTube

and outside filmmaking, e.g. – https://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/sm...eality-display

[Penton-Man]

regarding Outer Banks ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10293938/)
- https://twitter.com/light_iron/statu...15323501875201

[Penton-Man]

also on the twitter, vis-à-vis Daniel - https://twitter.com/DanielBa78/statu...56033302220802

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

content creators

also serves as a primer on HDR for hobbyists’ knowledge base too, this intro –

Introduction to HDR Video: FREE 30min Course Preview! | MasterHDRVideo - YouTube