Belated news from IBC and CES: technology for capture and delivery of HDR video

[Shenan]

I did some searches here and saw no mention of this. It seems that a few companies like Technicolor, Dolby, and others are working on establishing a (some?) technology and standard(s) for capture and delivery of HDR video. I only discovered this because of a brief comment on another site, so I did some digging and found these articles/links:

http://legacy.tvbeurope.com/main-co...uild-enhanced-uhd-pipelines/gg46#.VFtrfda7n84
http://www.theconnectedlifeexperien...ic-range-realism-and-image-quality-beyond-hd/
http://www.transvideo.eu/page/nevex-project

Had anyone heard of this? Any thoughts? It seems to me like this could eventually make those who prefer higher dynamic range over higher resolution pretty happy.

 

[Demistate]

Dolby Vision HDR tech looks amazing in person, but it requires your content to be mastered for it. You cant take any existing rec.709 material and expect it to look good.

The good news is that people shooting RAW video, and on film can re-master their products to be in Dolby Vision HDR. It's color space independent and somehow does some sort of color/brightness management so you can master in any color space, or any display tech and get a faithful reproduction on the other end. It's similar to how Adobe RGB input looks pretty good even on sRGB displays when its color managed.

 

[DLD]

The Blu-ray 4K is supposed to have HDR too. That said, I am sure there'll be some form of "HDR upscaling" built into TV sets for footage that isn't mastered in it ... at some point.