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In a small on booth meeting room SES showed a live demo provided by LG Electronics. SES broadcasted a live demo of UHD HDR using the SMPTE 2084 (HDR) and BT.2020 (WCG) standards, being shown on an LG UHD OLED display. The same demo was also shown at IFA 2015.
I was told LG initially worked with BBC's Hybrid Gamma, the EOTF/OETF (Electronic Optical/Opto-electrical Transfer Function), but later suppplied material using the SMPTE standard 2084. This offers HDR or SDR only where as the BBC proposal and Dolby, Philips and Technicolor, offer backward compatible systems that allow to address both SDR and HDR displays using the one broadcast. The BBC has come together with NHK that worked on a similar HDR curve system to offer a joint system. Hardware vendors struggle with licensing costs for proprietary HDR offers, as long as it is all in flux and there is no resolution to wich (proprietary, licensable) HDR encoding is the norm, they cannot afford to include multiple systems, so SMPTE 2084 becomes more attractive for the time being, as it is cumpulsory in the upcoming UHD Blu-ray standard.
Highlights combined with dark area's:
Highlights somewhat blown-out by the photocamera:
Compared to a non-HDR version at a peak brightness of 300-400 nits:
I was told LG initially worked with BBC's Hybrid Gamma, the EOTF/OETF (Electronic Optical/Opto-electrical Transfer Function), but later suppplied material using the SMPTE standard 2084. This offers HDR or SDR only where as the BBC proposal and Dolby, Philips and Technicolor, offer backward compatible systems that allow to address both SDR and HDR displays using the one broadcast. The BBC has come together with NHK that worked on a similar HDR curve system to offer a joint system. Hardware vendors struggle with licensing costs for proprietary HDR offers, as long as it is all in flux and there is no resolution to wich (proprietary, licensable) HDR encoding is the norm, they cannot afford to include multiple systems, so SMPTE 2084 becomes more attractive for the time being, as it is cumpulsory in the upcoming UHD Blu-ray standard.
Highlights combined with dark area's:
Highlights somewhat blown-out by the photocamera:
Compared to a non-HDR version at a peak brightness of 300-400 nits: