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Elemental Technologies took the opportunity of IBC to show the power of its software based compression to adopt all versions of HDR. Having shown its compression system with Dolby Vision in the past, it showed the Technicolor SDR/HDR conding system publicly and in on stand meetingroom the Philips technology, and what Mike Callahan Senior Director of Solutions Marketing at Elemental Technologies calls 'HDR 10', 'a made up spec that isn't a real thing, but basically a few SMPTE specs thrown together'. This HDR only system also goes by 'Open HDR'.
Basically SMPTE 2084's EOTF curve, and the controls over the Electro-Optical Transfer Function, such as the display's peak brightness, provided by SMPTE 2086 and some addendums to 2086. so, complete;ly relying on open standards.
Elemental 'handles the encoding and packaging things, so we expect some-one to provide video and (HDR/SDR) metadata for us. We embed the metadata. An SDI feed with ancillary data is played to our live encoder that confirms the metadata, embeds it'. Then it is received by a set-top box and seperated into SDR and/or HDR output.
Meetingrooms are not demorooms, so these are continually booked, so I was only able to witness the Technicolor demo. This demo was compressed to 30 Mbit/s. The regular SDR 8 bit signal is sent to the left screen and the right one is fed the 10 Bits HDR signal.
Basically SMPTE 2084's EOTF curve, and the controls over the Electro-Optical Transfer Function, such as the display's peak brightness, provided by SMPTE 2086 and some addendums to 2086. so, complete;ly relying on open standards.
Elemental 'handles the encoding and packaging things, so we expect some-one to provide video and (HDR/SDR) metadata for us. We embed the metadata. An SDI feed with ancillary data is played to our live encoder that confirms the metadata, embeds it'. Then it is received by a set-top box and seperated into SDR and/or HDR output.
Meetingrooms are not demorooms, so these are continually booked, so I was only able to witness the Technicolor demo. This demo was compressed to 30 Mbit/s. The regular SDR 8 bit signal is sent to the left screen and the right one is fed the 10 Bits HDR signal.