August 11, 2015, Siggraph, Los Angeles– Sebastian Sylwan from Felix & Paul Studios moderated this panel with panelists including Michael Whipple from Sony Pictures Entertainment, Alex Fry, compositing and color pipeline supervisor (“The Lego Movie”, “The Great Gatsby”), Chris Davies, technical director, Skylab (“Chappie”, “Elysium”), Marie Fetiveau from Rodeo FX . The main issue is…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Lars Borg from Adobe describes some of the differences between standard dynamic range and high dynamic range workflows. These new specifications calling for wider color gamut and higher dynamic range will impact content workflows. Current HD TV is based on BT 709 to provide…
June 16, 2015, SMPTE Entertainment Technology in the Internet Age, Stanford, CA—Pat Griffis from SMPTE talked about the changes coming to TV and other video images. The advent of 4k and 8k sets will change more than the basic picture. An obvious development in the higher resolution TV sets is the increase in the number…
February 24, 2015, ISSCC, San Francisco—Manar El-Chammas from Texas Instruments described a high linearity, high bandwidth data converter for communications systems. This design challenges the normal tradeoff of the two parameters, yet achieves over 90 dB dynamic range and 200 MHz bandwidth. The design uses a pipelined architecture with integrated track-and-hold. Other changes such a…
September 16, 2014, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, CA—Min Gyu Kim from Broadcom described their work in designing a high-dynamic range with low noise and distortion headphone driver. Among the other design constraints, they also had to make the part run on very low power to address the needs of portable device users for…