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Old 6th February 2016, 00:24   #20  |  Link
benwaggoner
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Originally Posted by nevcairiel View Post
Dolby Vision is annoying, they should stick to the HDR metadata that UHD Blu-ray favors (SMPTE ST- 2084/2086). It needs far less decoder changes.
The 2086 metadata is static across an entire title, so it still requires a lot of prediction and MIPS for a display's tone mapper to adapt to per-scene changes in color volume or contrast.

And it's really not that valuable. A single flash frame from a camera flash can double the MaxFALL the whole rest of the title would use, and thus be very misleading for a tone mapper.
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