Goldorak
Distinguished Member
But that kind of is Dolby...
The problem with HDR10 and dynamic metadata is that it's not part of the UHD BD spec, it won't be used by broadcast as they want HLG, and it requires newer HDMI (regardless of FPS bandwidth) and it's not clear if existing HDMI 2.0 equipment is upgrade-able even if the manufacturers wanted to. Hence the only way to use it on a Sumsung TV is via Amazon streaming... that's going to get a bit limiting.
Dolby works with existing HDMI 2.0 kit and is in the UHD BD standards. It's just some manufacturers want to effectively pocket the license fee for themselves. It's probably cheaper in the long run to just use Dolby as you don't have to figure everything out for yourself with varying degrees of success. I'm also concerned that HDR10 content can be mastered to just about whatever nit level you like making the job for TV manufacturers even harder... how do you second guess that?
Dolby Vision prescribes all these things... I'm sure it doesn't stop manufacturers working with them to get the very best out of their display so they can still claim a better HDR picture.
And is Dolby licensing that expensive if the likes of Sony are retrofitting it for free to models it wasn't even promised on?
Fully agree with you. Just wanted to say that Dolby exist because they could not get their act together
Hdr10+ could be the answer if adopted but I prefer dv as higher quality end to end source
This video is bringing home importance of tone mapping and dynamic metadata
Can't help thinking that until dv is widely available across all medium (2-3 years?), pana is not a bad bet at all..(unless you can afford a Loewe which has a similar tone mapping to pana and dv on top....hummmmmm