Are you ready to get your head around a new TV technology? I ask because Dolby Vision 2 is on its way, building on the existing HDR technology in some eyebrow-raising ways.
Announced overnight ahead of IFA in Berlin, the official word is that Dolby Vision 2 “is designed specifically to meet the evolving opportunities of television experiences today”. An empty corporate statement in isolation, it appears that the technology aims to do more to adapt how a picture looks and how TVs process motion.
That last point could send a shudder up the spines of anti-motion smoothing and Filmmaker Mode advocates around the world. Coming to the new Dolby standard is a feature called “Authentic Motion”. According to the announcement, it aims to “make scenes feel more authentically cinematic without unwanted judder on a shot-by-shot basis”.
How this will work in practice will be interesting. Most modern TVs come with a Filmmaker Mode setting that preserves the source material’s frame rate and disables any post-processing, like motion smoothing. Read up on the soap opera effect if you want to know why motion processing causes cinephiles to break out in hives.
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Less controversially, the main addition to Dolby Vision 2 is “Content Intelligence”. Based on the provided details, it adjusts a TV’s picture based on the content, your television set, and the viewing environment.
Under the banner of Content Intelligence are three sub-technologies: Precision Black, Light Sense, and Sports and Gaming Optimisation.
Precision Black adjusts picture clarity during dark scenes, aimed at people who struggle to see what’s happening on screen. Meanwhile, Light Sense is Dolby’s standardised ambient light detection technology that responds to the content and the viewing environment. Sports and Gaming Optimisation speaks for itself; it’s meant to handle motion to suit fast-moving action.
Most importantly, Dolby claims its new HDR standard acts “without compromising artistic intent”. To take advantage of newer TVs capable of producing a wider spectrum of colours, Dolby Vision 2 also employs a new bi-directional tone mapping technique. Theoretically, it should assist TVs in showing brighter and more colourful visuals.
Hisense is the first TV brand confirmed to support Dolby Vision 2 on its high-end TVs, although no date has been locked in yet. Dolby specifically name-dropped Hisense’s RGB Mini LED TVs, which use a combination of red, green, and blue backlights, covering up to 95% of the BT.2020 colour gamut.
Dolby also confirmed that there will be two variants of its new HDR standard: Dolby Vision 2 and Dolby Vision 2 Max. The base version is reportedly aimed at improving the picture quality on “mainstream TVs”, while Max will get “additional premium features” on high-end TVs.
Only time will tell how much of a difference this new technology will make.
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