Get HDR highlights from SDR!
Let’s start with basic notions: REC.601 and REC.709 are standards for encoding video in digital form; the former was used...
2023-09-22
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Restoration tips: spoRv Gauge™
What is the spoRv Gauge?
It’s a rule of thumb to calculate the optimal bitrate needed to encode a good quality video – or to check if a given video reach a good quality level
2022-01-02
Disentangling “The Thing”!
John Carpenter’s “The Thing” is probably one of the most seminal sci-fi horror movies, along with Alien; it was not...
2021-09-24
Cinema DTS on MediaInfo!
I’m happy to inform you that finally Cinema DTS files are recognized by MediaInfo! Me and Jérôme Martinez (lead...
2023-05-01
Restoration tips: MergeHdUp™
This restoration and upscale technique is based on PaNup; quite a lot of time is passed since I published that,...
2022-09-22
Do we really need 8K?
Note: this time I will not enter in the same debate as 4K should be called UHD 4K (or UHDTV1),...
2022-08-30
4K is not equal to 4K
What does it mean? Well, I guess anybody know what K stands for wikipedia page for kilo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilo-) Kilo is...
2021-11-17
“I was shot today” – surround comparison #2
Time for another surround comparison! The first was the simplest – I took spoken channel names, prepared a four-channel track,...
2021-11-07
Surround test 1
I don’t think there are a lot of comparisons on the web (if any) concerning Dolby Surround decoding, so I...
2021-10-27
Comparing tracks waveforms
I made some comparisons between tracks from different editions of the same movie – or even between different tracks in...
2021-10-06
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