2019: UHD’S YEAR OF MATURITY

Unified Guidelines & demos shown at NAB along with the Ultra HD Forum perspective on 8K.

In our booth N1531 in the futurs Park:

Universal HDR: coexistence of foundation HDR technology & dynamic metadata for best possible content reproduction.

SHVC shown in ATSC 3.0 supporting different displays.

Effect of resolution and frame rate on HDR Content.

Effect of HDR-to-SDR content switching on TVs and STBs.

Conversions between HDR and SDR and 8K production for 4K distribution.

EBU findings on HDR and its relative impact across different screen resolutions.

@UHD4k: an exclusive preview of latest update to HDR ecosystem tracker.

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UHD Guidelines 2.0 ready for download

We’re proud to release the first unified Guidelines including

End-to-end workflows for UHD services

Resolutions of 1080p (with HDR) and 2160p

HDR / WCG (PQ10, HLG10 and HDR10)

Channel-based immersive audio

Dual-layer HDR technologies

Dynamic HDR Metadata systems (Dolby Vision & SL-HDR1)

High Frame Rate (100/120 FPS)

Next Generation Audio (Dolby AC-4 & MPEG-H Audio)

Content-Aware Encoding

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