Hi Steve,

I know you've been outspoken on HDR and its formats, have you got any thoughts to share? I'm guessing you've been working with Dolby (yes I know and appreciate you don't comment on potential ColourSpace developments) but here is Dolbys announcement anyway https://news.dolby.com/en-WW/253671-dolby-unveils-dolby-vision-2-a-new-era-for-tv-picture-quality/

Thanks.

Aaron

While I understand and appreciate that Dolby want to make money, there is nothing of any real benefit for the end viewer here I can see.
Without being rude, just a way to get users to buy new TVs, as their one from last year doesn't have the latest and greatest gimmicks.

With home TVs getting brighter peak luma capabilities, and greater gamut coverage, the need to use any image manipulation process actually becomes less, as we explain within our HDR Guides.
If the home TV can reach the same peak luma as the grading monitor, and has a reasonable gamut coverage, there is no need for any metadata or tone mapping, etc., for the TV to virtually match the grading monitor, and for the end viewer to see the image as the director/colourist intended.

It is understandable that home viewing environments can be less than perfect, and again we discuss this in our HDR Guides, along with the issues a fixed absolute standard such as PQ based HDR then has.
But that was what Dolby's iQ was all about, wasn't it?
Breaking the PQ EOTF to make shadows brighter.

And there seems to be nothing in the Dolby information that would have any impact on ColourSpace.
No ColourSpace changes needed.
So no, we have not been involved with Dolby v2, be it the Max or Basic options (yes, there seem to be two different levels of Dolby v2...) in any way.

Steve

Steve

Thanks for your thoughts Steve.

Aaron

From what I read, just a money grabbing process...
If anyone can see different in what Dolby are offering, including Dolby themselves, I'd like to know.