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I sat through a brief (I was affraid it would take the full two hours, announced before the show) demo of the Envy at ISE. The projector used was the Sony VW 5000. And indeed it were the brighter parts that were enhanced. On the one animated racing game movie scene the girl's jacket's waist insert went from almost colourless, antique pink to reddish colour, whith some sheen and sparkle.
The Iron giant statute, from the same segment was flat black with hardly any detail with the Sony taking over the HDR processing. I say taking over as the Eny sends out the processed signal announcing it as SDR, to circumvent the projector's HDR processing, when the Envy is taken out the signal path the Sony sees the HDR signalling and starts to do its own tonemapping and processing.
Any detail enhancement in the dark area's was not as clear. I noticed one horizontal beam against an even darker b(l)ackground. And actually it was more visible with the Envy turned off as it became a tad grey against the dark black background, compared to the black with some surface highlight the Envy made of it.
Nigel suggested that the dark area enghancement was hindered by the Sony's not too great a blackfloor.
There was some stutter as the camera swung to Lady Gaga's face as she stood on the side of the stage. I can't say if that is in the movie or in the after processing, by the Envy.
Walter confirmed afterwards that the motion processing was not implemented/enabled/used in this processor as shown.
Fortunately it was not as apparant and head ache inducing as some LED displays, just noticable, as was is trying to watch with great attention during demo's like this one. Every show there's at least one LED display that has motion issues, quickly forgot which one it was this year:-(, one of the lesser known brands in Hall 12, I believe.
I was bothered by the obvious panning blur in the later demo of the very much littler brother of the RGB Laser Thor, the RGB LED Barco Bragi. This was clearly part of the content, that's why I have been promoting 1200 CLEAN frames per second, over any messing around with 60 or 120P, and throwing out resolution with motion precompensation blur and shallow depth of field blur, for many, many years. The little Barco by the way looked considerably better (or good) than last years 'about to be released unit' demo at last year's show. Using a 3.1 meter wide screen helped. The RGB looked very 'quiet', not that I am really bothered by colourwheels.
To conclude upon first glance the Envy clearly does something to the image.
By the way Wolfgang I made a point to look for the Barco Demo suite for the 3D LED demo, unfortunately it was not a continuous demo, and I didn't manage to make it back in time for the scheduled demo. I did manage to catch the continuous Christie Microtiles 1.25mm pitch 3D demo, on the showfloor, and what can I say, it worked. So if you want 3D LED walls are the way to go as it, with some projectors, continues to support/re-introduced 3D, to cater to the large themepark market.
The Iron giant statute, from the same segment was flat black with hardly any detail with the Sony taking over the HDR processing. I say taking over as the Eny sends out the processed signal announcing it as SDR, to circumvent the projector's HDR processing, when the Envy is taken out the signal path the Sony sees the HDR signalling and starts to do its own tonemapping and processing.
Any detail enhancement in the dark area's was not as clear. I noticed one horizontal beam against an even darker b(l)ackground. And actually it was more visible with the Envy turned off as it became a tad grey against the dark black background, compared to the black with some surface highlight the Envy made of it.
Nigel suggested that the dark area enghancement was hindered by the Sony's not too great a blackfloor.
There was some stutter as the camera swung to Lady Gaga's face as she stood on the side of the stage. I can't say if that is in the movie or in the after processing, by the Envy.
Walter confirmed afterwards that the motion processing was not implemented/enabled/used in this processor as shown.
Fortunately it was not as apparant and head ache inducing as some LED displays, just noticable, as was is trying to watch with great attention during demo's like this one. Every show there's at least one LED display that has motion issues, quickly forgot which one it was this year:-(, one of the lesser known brands in Hall 12, I believe.
I was bothered by the obvious panning blur in the later demo of the very much littler brother of the RGB Laser Thor, the RGB LED Barco Bragi. This was clearly part of the content, that's why I have been promoting 1200 CLEAN frames per second, over any messing around with 60 or 120P, and throwing out resolution with motion precompensation blur and shallow depth of field blur, for many, many years. The little Barco by the way looked considerably better (or good) than last years 'about to be released unit' demo at last year's show. Using a 3.1 meter wide screen helped. The RGB looked very 'quiet', not that I am really bothered by colourwheels.
To conclude upon first glance the Envy clearly does something to the image.
By the way Wolfgang I made a point to look for the Barco Demo suite for the 3D LED demo, unfortunately it was not a continuous demo, and I didn't manage to make it back in time for the scheduled demo. I did manage to catch the continuous Christie Microtiles 1.25mm pitch 3D demo, on the showfloor, and what can I say, it worked. So if you want 3D LED walls are the way to go as it, with some projectors, continues to support/re-introduced 3D, to cater to the large themepark market.
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