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ITU agrees on HEVC h.265 codec
The ITU announced today that it’s members have agreed upon a new high efficiency video codec. Dubbed HEVC H.265, the new format is designed to improve on and ultimately replace the current king of all...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook talks color quality at Goldman Sachs conference
Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke at Goldman Sachs’ Technology and Internet Conference yesterday. He touched on a wide range of topics from what Apple plans to do with its cash horde to the state of its retail...
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DisplayWeek 2013: Color is back
Just back from a great DisplayWeek in Vancouver. Finally had a chance to recover, go through my notes and process everything I saw at the show. Most of the big story lines will be pretty familiar to...
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How much color gamut do displays really need? Part 2: How we perceive color
Last week I set out to define the ultimate consumer display experience in terms of color performance. I laid out some potential color performance design goals for an ideal display, suggesting that such...
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How much color gamut do displays really need? Part 3: Existing color gamut...
Last week I looked at the three “P’s” of human color perception– physical, physiological and psychological– as a way to help define a color gamut for the ideal display. Based on real world examples...
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How much color do displays really need? Part 4: Content Delivery
In the previous post in this series, I made the case for displays with hybrid, custom color gamuts as a great way to deliver coverage of Pointer’s gamut as well as the most important broadcast...
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Pointer’s Gamut follow-up by TFT Central
Last summer I wrote a multi-part series here that looked at how much color gamut displays really need. In those articles I used the gamut of colors found in the natural world, as defined by Pointer,...
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Is the rec.2020 UHD color broadcast spec really practical?
I’ve often advocated on this blog for Pointer’s Gamut as an important design goal for display makers but is it really practical today from a technology perspective? Pointer’s Gamut covers a huge area...
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Introducing Wide Gamut Wednesdays
This week I’m kicking off a new series of posts that set out to answer a simple question: “Can an HDTV accurately reproduce these colors?” I’m calling the new weekly feature “Wide Color Gamut...
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Reproducing Colors We’ve Never Seen Before – the “The Wizard of Oz” in HDR
Watching the latest superhero movie release – loaded with CGI and eye-melting explosions – is obviously a great way to test the cinematic benefits of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG)...
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