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We are in the process of investing in a ProTools system to create the audio. We always planned it for another disc, when we are confident we can do it correctly. We did not want to include the same 5.1/7.1 audio from the 2nd edition, we wanted to cover Atmos and DTS:X because that is what everyone is asking for. We are in the same boat with Immersive audio. It was added to the 2nd edition because we were able to make accurate 5.1/7.1 tones with the help of THX, Dolby and DTS. We did not include audio on the 1st edition because we were not confident we could do it correctly at the time. Our domain expertise is in digital video, not audio, we fully admit that. We tried using the menu to make the nit / gamut text dynamic, but then it flickered when you moved the menu highlight around. There are 10 different background videos, one for the five nit levels and two gamuts. They really put in a minimum amount of effort adding UHD support to BD.
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(smoke) in fact, the Spears & Munsil text and nits / gamut are also burned into the video so they would be higher quality text since the background video is UHD resolution and the menus are 1080p and scaled to UHD by the player. Because of that, we actually burned it into the background video. The transparent window behind the menu buttons consumes most of the 16 MBs of memory.
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Both will be available as PDF and various eBook formats.Īnother thing we learned with HDR is that the first video in a title sets the metadata for all other videos in that title regardless of what the metadata is.
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We have a couple of other manuals in development. It is correct on the other output that composites in 4:4:4. While this makes the image better, it does result in lower quality menus and our right/wrong chroma alignment image is backwards on that output. They simply composite in the color space you have selected. One is higher quality in terms of video because they don't convert to 4:4:4 to composite the graphics.
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The OPPO players usually have two HDMI outputs. You can see some artifacts in the current pop-up help on some of the ramp patterns in the form of visible dither.Īnd of course there is another issue that you can see on OPPO players. So in order to include images, they have to be of the same color palate or the results are pretty ugly. It might be possible to have text only help on some patterns, but images are out because of another limitation of BD and that is the menus use palatalized graphics instead of 24-bit. However, we have 1400+ patterns on the disc, so we could not do one pattern per title. BD has a limit of 999 titles, which is overkill for most discs. You get 16 MBs of memory, which is roughly 6 x 1080p pages (the menus are 1080p on UHD BD) On the 1st and 2nd edition discs, each pattern is in its own title and each title has access to 16 MBs of memory. We use the menu system for the pop-up help. It was not technically possible to include the pop-up help on this disc. I would consider tones on disc more for verification.įully understand your frustration with that. The built-in don't have to go through bass management of the AVR while the stuff on disc does, so that may make them different. There is one difference between built-in and on a disc. It is being done programatically by DTS vs. For DTS we may also have something really cool. We will let you select base layer (5.1 or 7.1) and top layer (0, 2, 4 or 6) so any 5.1.0 - 7.1.6 configuration can be done. This is one of our goals of the add-on disc. Unlike normal 5.1 and 7.1, which are just mono audio tracks, immersive audio is much more complicated. In order to create Atmos and DTS:X, we need to invest in a ProTools system. We won't do audio until we can do it right. We did not include audio on the current disc because it would have delayed the disc at least another year and we had a lot of CE companies and reviewers that needed the disc last year. There are even some discs that output something closer to white noise, which is way off. 85 dB (-20 dBFS) and some AVRs and discs output tones for 85 (theatrical) instead of 75 (home cinema). Every signal was measured with an Audio Precision Analyzer to ensure it was electronically -30 dBFS for the mains and -40 dBFS for the LFE. THX helped us ensure the levels are correct. If you have a THX AVR, they will match in SPL, if the THX AVR meets spec. The audio tones on the 2nd edition are dead on accurate.