Featuring guest speaker Charles Poynton
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 @ 2:00pm
Presentation Agenda |
2:00pm - 2:15pm |
Introduction - Chris Bone, CTO for VTP, will give a brief introduction to the topic
and the speaker. |
2:15pm - 4:00pm
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Emerging technology and standards for studio reference displays - CRT displays are now virtually obsolete as reference displays for studio use: CRT reference displays can essentially no longer be purchased. CRT displays are also obsolete in the consumer domain. Various display technologies are emerging, but it is clear for the foreseeable future - five to ten years at least - that LCDs will be the dominant technology to replace CRTs in both applications. CRTs have never been adequately standardized in the broadcast domain, and viewing conditions, while a necessary aspect of reference viewing, have never been adequately standardized either. Furthermore, existing standards such as BT.709 and SMPTE 274M are unclear and misleading about transfer functions ("gamma"), and completely discount picture rendering, which is understood within the color management community to be vital to image reproduction.
In this talk, Charles Poynton will describe the technical implications of existing practice, and introduce the concept of picture rendering (which video engineers have been doing unknowingly for the last 30 years). He will review the technology of emergent displays (such as the Sony BVM-L230), and describe the challenges that such displays face to standardization in the professional domain. Finally, he will provide an update on industry standardization activities at ITU-R, SMPTE, and EBU.
Presented by:
Charles Poynton
Charles Poynton is a specialist in the physics, mathematics, and engineering of digital color imaging systems. As a free lance contractor since 1995, he has worked on digital video, HDTV, and digital cinema (D-cinema). Prior to 1995, he worked at Sun Microsystems, where he helped implement and standardize color management systems. A Fellow of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), Poynton was awarded the Society's prestigious David Sarnoff Gold Medal for his work to integrate video technology with computing and communications. In February 2003, Poynton's second book Digital Video and HDTV Algorithms and Interfaces was the 3,339-th most popular item at Amazon.com. In addition to his professional activities, he is a part-time Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser University.
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The event is hosted by VTP and Sony.
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