Logical to Mandate 3rd-Party HDR10+ TV Certifications but Not for OTT, Says Point Man
Under the HDR10+ licensing program (see 1806200047), the Fox-Panasonic-Samsung consortium running the program had a strong rationale for requiring TV makers to submit their sets to third-party certification, while Blu-ray player and over-the-top set-top manufacturers self-certify, Bill Mandel, Samsung Research…
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America vice president-industry relations, told us at last week’s Advanced Display Summit in West Hollywood, California (see 1806280006). The Blu-ray Disc Association “is just a gigantic organization that’s been around forever and they’re making really commodity products,” said Mandel, Samsung’s HDR10+ project manager. For a “source device” like a Blu-ray player or OTT box to be capable of HDR10+, “it needs to be able to generate that VSIF data,” said Mandel of vendor-specific information field protocol. “That would have to be programmed into the firmware.” For a TV, “it needs to understand that that VSIF is coming,” he said. Products lacking that protocol will need to get a firmware update to enable them to render HDR10+, said Mandel. “We’re already running the Amazon protocol” to enable the sets to render the display of Amazon Prime content in HDR10+, he said. Samsung’s 2018 TVs are “already compatible with Amazon,” he said.