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26th March 2024, 17:20 | #441 | Link |
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I was thinking about something several days ago and had a realization. With SDR, indoor and outdoor scenes tend to have small variance in where reference white would be. But with HDR, there is a lot more variance between these scenes. With the BBC putting reference white at 75% HLG, and then by viewing this on a SDR display, we effectively have these dimmer indoor scenes "pushed up" towards 75% and the brighter outdoor scenes "pushed down" towards the same level. This seems to go a long way in making HLG look "like it should" despite the greater variance in HDR's levels of indoor vs. outdoor scenes.
As best I can tell, the 75% HLG level for reference white was a BBC innovation, as NHK's original specification called for 50%. Another way to put this is that the NHK seems to have viewed HLG as a hack to have basic monitoring work on existing 10-bit equipment while the BBC wanted HLG to "just work" on existing 10-bit consumer devices. |
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