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What a beauty so far :)
Planet Earth II, if you've not watched yet, is onto it's 3rd episode, and it's stunning :)
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:)
What a beauty so far :)
Planet Earth II, if you've not watched yet, is onto it's 3rd episode, and it's stunning :)
The first episode was pretty good. The second was incredible.
I keep saying to my wife: This is the one to get on UHD blu-ray when it comes out. It's pretty stunning in 1080, can't imagine what it would be like with HDR...
Every episode has a stand-out sequence, whether it's Marine Iguana vs snakes (ep1) or Kung-Fu eagles (ep2) or Jaguar vs Cayman (ep3), but it's all truly wonderful.
makes me smile every time I see it :)
Probably one of the best programs ever made. Probably the best documentary series ever made. The dedication required to get some of the shots is insane but evidently its worth it.
Giraffe vs Lion was the stand-out last night...
Haven't had chance to start this yet, you guys have got me hyped though, gonna have to binge over Xmas. =)
The episode with eagles in the mountains was really something. Think they said it was over 100 hour stakeout??
Cracking series, and to think I've not even watched the first one! I know what I'm doing over Christmas...
Was it on last night, or is that the season over? SPOTY was on BBC1, so did it get shifted to BBC2?
And good news!
http://www.techradar.com/news/bbc-co...s-on-the-cards
Hopefully it'll be available early in the New Year. Seems daft that it was filmed in 4k, but you have to wait for the UHD blu-ray, but there you go...
The picture quality in HD looks amazing, I'm also watching Blue Planet on BBC2 HD and that does not look anywhere near as crisp, it might be upscaled.
My UHD disc is on its way. I think this might be the reference disc which justifies a 4k telly/UHD player.
Review here: http://www.whathifi.com/features/pla...blu-ray-review
Got it from zoom.co.uk for £27.99
David Attenboroough makes the series special. Guy's such a pleasure to listen to, it's soothing. Too bad he doesn't do audio books much.
Do you mind me asking which UHD bluray player you use? I'm looking to invest in a 4K TV now due to Planet Earth 2. I was looking at the Xbox One S but I've seen reports online where it's not very good at playing certain discs...
Finally got round to watching it this weekend - it's absolutely magnificent. If I didn't already have a UHD blu-ray, this would be worth it just to see the extra colours and depth.
abs_rio - I've got the Samsung UBD-K8500. It's apparently not the best, but it does the job. Got it half price with a new telly, which at the time was £175, and you can't get any uhd blu-ray players for that price. I have heard about the XBox One S having problems with the PE2 discs in particular. Over on AV Forums, someone who complained to Microsoft was told the disc was encoded incorrectly (!) even though the user had the Panny u700, and it played fine in that...
If you have a 4K TV and load the iplayer app on your TV or Smart box it will ask you if you want to try the 4K trial.
Its only a few minutes long but shows Planet Earth II. My jaw hit the floor, looks absolutely stunning and far better than any other 4K material I have seen so far. Well worth a look.
Yes, but apparently the HLG part of it only works on certain (Panasonic) tellies. I checked it out on the iPlayer app on my VM V6, and it didn't say it was in HDR, but it looked pretty spectacular anyway.
Thats what I was using a VM V6. I have a Samsung.
Read this on the wiki - On November 4, 2016, Samsung announced that all of their 2016 HDR TVs could support HLG with a firmware update
So will look out for a firmware update.
As for the others and history :-
On May 15, 2015, the BBC announced that they had begun work with the NHK to develop a joint HDR proposal that would be proposed to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).[15]
On June 9, 2015, HLG was proposed to the JCT-VC for High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) and added to the June 2015 draft of the screen content coding extensions.[16][7]
On October 26, 2015, Sony showed HLG video on a modified HDR display at the SMPTE 2015 conference.[17][18]
On October 27, 2015, Colorfront announced that their Transkoder 2016 software would support HDR output using HLG.[19]
On November 4, 2015, SKY PerfecTV! announced that they will use HLG to transmit 4K UHDTV HDR programming to their satellite subscribers in Japan.[20]
On November 6, 2015, LG announced that their 2015 4K OLED TVs would support HDR from HLG and Perceptual Quantizer (PQ).[21]
On December 3, 2015, Harmonic Inc. and NASA announced the HDR capture of a Atlas V launch which was broadcast the next day on NASA TV using HLG.[22] UHDTV HDR video clips will be published early next year in both HDR10 and HLG.[22]
On December 14, 2015, Vatican Television Center broadcast the ceremony of the Holy Door using HLG and the Rec. 2020 color space.[23]
On December 23, 2015, Blackmagic Design released an update for DaVinci Resolve that added support for HLG.[24]
2016
On January 12, 2016, Leader Electronics Corporation announced their 12G-SDI waveform monitors with support for HLG.[25]
On January 29, 2016, Avid Technology released an update for Media Composer that added support for HLG.[26][27]
On March 29, 2016, Harmonic Inc. released an update for the ViBE 4K UHD encoder that added support for HLG.[28]
On April 13, 2016, Canon Inc. announced that they will release firmware updates for the DP-V2410 and DP-V3010 reference displays to add support for HLG.[29]
On April 15, 2016, Dome Productions announced that they will begin trials of HLG to deliver HDR content.[30]
On April 18, 2016, Sony announced the PVM-X550 OLED monitor with support for HLG.[31] Sony also announced a firmware update for the BVM-X300 OLED monitor to add support for HLG.[31]
On April 18, 2016, the Ultra HD Forum announced their guidelines for UHD Phase A which includes support for HLG.[32][33] The Ultra HD Forum also defined HLG10 as HLG, a bit depth of 10-bits, and the Rec. 2020 color space.[33]
On July 6, 2016, the ITU announced Rec. 2100 which defines two HDR transfer functions which are HLG and PQ.[4][14]
On July 29, 2016, SKY Perfect JSAT Group announced that on October 4 they will start the world's first 4K HDR broadcasts using HLG.[34]
On August 3, 2016, Sony announced that in October they will release a firmware update to add HLG to their BVM-X300 OLED monitor.[35]
On September 7, 2016, Eutelsat announced that it will launch a new channel using HLG.[36]
On September 9, 2016, Google announced Android TV 7.0 which supports HLG.[8][37]
On September 14, 2016, Sony announced that their VPL-VW675ES projector will support HLG.[38]
On September 23, 2016, Digital UK published their 2017 specification for Freeview Play which includes support for HDR using HLG.[10]
On November 4, 2016, Samsung announced that all of their 2016 HDR TVs could support HLG with a firmware update.[39]
On November 7, 2016, Google announced that YouTube will start streaming HDR videos which can be encoded with HLG or PQ.[40][9]
On November 17, 2016, the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) Steering Board approved UHD-1 Phase 2 with a HDR solution which supports Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) and Perceptual Quantizer (PQ).[5][41] The specification has been published as DVB Bluebook A157 and will be published by the ETSI as TS 101 154 v2.3.1.[5][41]
On November 18, 2016, Mediapro/Overon announced that they will transmit the Spanish Football League (LFP) worldwide using 4K HDR broadcasts based in HLG
On December 8, 2016, the BBC announced that it was adding a 4-minute HLG edit from their Planet Earth II series to its iPlayer IPTV platform for public UHD testing.[42]
On December 12, 2016, HDMI announced that HLG support had been added to the HDMI 2.0b standard.[6][43][44]
On December 25, 2016, Atomos updated their Shogun Inferno product to include HLG input and output for recording, monitoring editing and layout from Cameras and computers as well as to HLG compatible TV's.[45]
2017
On January 3, 2017, LG Corporation announced that their 2017 Super UHD TVs will support HLG.[46]
On January 4, 2017, Panasonic announced that their 2017 OLED TV will support HLG.[47]
On January 4, 2017, Sony announced that their 2017 OLED TVs will support HLG.[48]
On January 4, 2017, Eutelsat announced that their Hot Bird video service would include the Travelxp 4K channel which uses HLG.[49]
On January 5, 2017, JVC announced that their 2017 4K projectors will support HLG.[50]
On January 10, 2017, LG Corporation announced that they will add support for HLG to their 2016 OLED TVs and their 2016 Super UHD TVs with a firmware update.[51]
On January 16, 2017, Sony announced that they will add support for HLG to their 2017 4K TVs with a firmware update.[52]
On February 17, 2017, Panasonic announced that they will add support for HLG to several models of their 2016 4K TVs with a firmware update.[53]
On March 13, 2017, Philips announced that their 2017 4K TVs will support HLG and that they will add support for HLG to several models of their 2016 4K TVs with a firmware update.[54]
I've also got a Samsung, it's a bit worrying that they only say they 'could' update with HLG, not that they will.
Also got the problem that my Yamaha AV amp has not been mentioned as being updated to pass-through HLG. It got a firmware update to HDMI2.0a, which gave HDR pass-through, not sure if they'll update it again to 2.0b...