Brian Alvarez from Amazon Prime Video's presentation at the August 2019 Seattle Video Meetup.

1. HDR Formats and Trends

2. Brian Alvarez
-Prime Video, Principal Product Manager
-Dolby, Head of Content Production Engineering
-Dolby, Sr. Manager Dolby Vision OTT Strategy
-DirecTV, Systems Architecture OTT & DRM

3. Why HDR?

4. Why HDR?
NTSC, ATSC 1.0 Phosphor Physics

5. Why HDR?
Lens to Lens
Improvements

6. Why HDR?
More Pixels
Faster Pixels
Better Pixels

7. Built on Existing Standards

8. Built on Existing Standards

9. EOTFS = Pixels

10. It’s all about the Pixels
Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG)
Standardized in Association of Radio Industries and Businesses ARIB STD-B67
Royalty Free
No Metadata
Scene Referenced
Gamma EOTF
Backwards Compatible

11. SMPTE ST 2084 Perceptual Quantizer (PQ)
SMPTE ST 2086 Static Metadata aka HDR10
Maximum Frame Average Light Level (MaxFall)
Maximum Content Light Level (MaxCLL)
Mastering Monitor Metadata
(Black Level, Peak Brightness, Color Gamut)
Open Source
SMPTE 2094-X
(Dynamic Metadata)
2094-10 Dolby Vision 12/10bit
2094-20 Philips*
2094-30 Technicolor*
2094-40 HDR10+ (Royalty Free)
*Philips and Technicolor Combining Technologies to Prime Single (SL-HDR1)
It’s all about the Pixels

14. Post Produced Home Content
Dolby Vision
HDR10
HDR10+
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