- Dolby Vision 2 will include a new image engine and an adaptive “content intelligence”
- Dolby Vision 2 Max has an “authentic movement” and is designed for high -end televisions
- Hissense is the first television manufacturer to announce the support
Dolby announced the successor to his advanced HDR format, Dolby Vision. Appropriately, his name is Dolby Vision 2, and over time, he will replace both the current Dolby Vision standard and the Dolby Vision IQ variation, which adapts the image according to the ambient brightness in the room.
However, this is not the only option: Dolby also presents Dolby Vision 2 Max, which is an even more advanced version designed specifically for high -end televisions, such as Elite OLED televisions and new RVB LGB televisions.
Dolby Vision 2 will be supported by Hisense on high-end televisions that use Mediatek Pentonic 800 chips, which is the first chip with full management for the new standard, and includes the revolutionary 116-inch mini-RGB driven that we recently tested in depth.
This chip is used by other televisions, but we do not know which models will take care of Dolby Vision 2, because which chips are used in which televisions are not always as logical as you could say – I contacted all the major television companies to ask questions on their plans to support Dolby Vision 2 in the future, and I will publish all the news that I receive.
So what’s up this time? The emphasis is placed on the adaptation of the image to improve it while keeping the artistic intention the same, and this time, it is not only a question of colors and Luminance – Dolby Vision 2 also brings with it fascinating sound adjustments to the manipulation of the movement.
Authentic movement in a new generation engine
“Dolby Vision 2 redefines the way we think of Dolby Vision to free all the capacities of modern televisions while offering artists unprecedented opportunities to push their creative borders more than ever,” said John Couring, Vice-President, Entertainment at Dolby Laboratories, in the introduction to the new format.
There are three main areas that have changed in Dolby Vision, not to mention the introduction of Dolby Vision 2 Max (to which we will come back in a minute).
Let’s start with the one who intrigues me the most (and probably most of the videophils will also be): authentic motion. This makes it a sort of managing the movement what Dolby Vision does for a dynamic beach, which allows you to be modified on a “shooting base” by creators during the mastery of the film or the television show, rather than having the TV to a particular movement adjustment which replaces everything.
Dolby clearly indicates that it is “the first in the world creative movement control tool ” [emphasis mine]And that “will make the scenes more authentically cinematographic without undesirable Judder”.
It could provide the perfect solution to a potential problem with the filmmaker mode on televisions: we do not want the artificial movement to be smooth to make films non -natural, but televisions are not always able to show the 24FPS movement of the film with certain synchronization problems that create Juddery’s effects.
If this can be resolved by asking filmmakers to add certain movement adjustments to the encoding of master of the film, which are then communicated to the TV via Dolby Vision 2, it could be a victory all around: always a natural movement, but only when it is necessary.
Then, is an “redrawn and even more powerful” image engine “fueling Dolby Vision 2. There are not yet many details on this subject, but basically dolby has upgraded the tools that feed the creation and reading of Dolby Vision content, offering new options for creators, while promising that” the content in Dolby Vision will seem even more surprising when it is appreciated on a display of Dolby Vision 2 “. “”
Content intelligence is there (at least it’s no more AI)
Part of Dolby Vision’s height has always been that he was helping to adapt the original mastered image to the capacities of your particular TV, and Dolby Vision 2 will extend according to what is happening in the content itself, as well as the screen you use. There are some new key features, and Dolby has finished them all under the name of Content Intelligence, which fortunately makes no complaints concerning the setting of AI despite the trendy name,
The first is a precision black, which is designed to “reduce consumer frustration that the image is” too dark “” stimulating content which is simply too cloudy to see on certain televisions (too late for this infamous Thrones games Battle, but it’s okay), but promises to “without compromising artistic intention”.
The next step is Light Sense, which is designed to adapt the image according to the ambient lighting in the room, but in combination with “reference lighting data of the content source” for better results – which makes an improvement (and a replacement for) the adaptive image of Dolby Vision IQ.
And there are some optimizations for live sports, including “white points adjustments” and “movements control” which specifically aim to improve live sports emissions.
At the maximum
Finally, the most mysterious part of Dolby Vision 2 so far is the maximum version. Dolby says he will have more to share on this subject later, but it is essentially designed to make the most of the most efficient televisions, including the mapping of bidirectional tones and new advanced tools for enthusiasts.
The overall idea is to push the most efficient televisions since they can go, to really give you a maximum visual blow for your money with regard to the impactful and clear image quality.
If part of this seems a little vague in terms of improvements you should expect, don’t worry – I’m going to talk to Dolby in depth of changes soon, to get an idea of the size of a change in practice.
When will it all happen? More information on availability and the calendar will come later – even if the manufacturers of the best televisions support it, we also need content to be produced using. So far, Canal + has been confirmed as being on board for that, but we will have to hear much more.
