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Beauty is therapeutic! You four gentlemen maintain leadership commitment to encourage the faithful reproduction in the home of cinematic art. Cinema continues to provide a way for regular folks to journey beyond their personal lives and relatively confined and narrow perspectives on life and...

Great educational detail in the first half! The second half was genuinely inspirational! Much appreciated! Best regards and beautiful pictures, G. Alan Brown, President CinemaQuest, Inc. SMPTE, PVA, THX, ISF, Lion AV Consultants "Advancing the art and science of electronic imaging"

Here's a great article from Light Illusion that also discusses many of these essential imaging science principles: https://www.lightillusion.com/viewing_environment.html

Need help adjusting the proper level of ambient lighting in your viewing environment? Here are some of the more recent sources for test patterns that allow for visual adjustment of bias light levels: The best source I'm aware of for 5, 10, and 15 nit (candelas per square meter) patterns with...

Folks interested in acquiring the SMPTE ST 2080-3:2017 document for detailed study can find it at this link: https://global.ihs.com/doc_detail.cfm?item_s_key=00707628

For the technically astute, here is an impressive interview by Murideo (calibration instrument provider) with the developer of the MediaLight line of LED bias lights: (1:27:17 Video) The interview offers many great PowerPoint slides of relevant graphs and examples of human perception in this...

How Viewing Environment Conditions Can Corrupt Or Enhance Your Calibration- Updated Fundamentally, all of motion imaging technology is based upon human visual perception. The world's most perfect calibration instrument cannot fully duplicate or measure how our brain interprets what our eyes...

FUN! Refurbishing Ghostbusters' "Ecto 1" Cadillac (15:37 Video) 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Official Trailer (2:34 video) Best regards and beautiful pictures, G. Alan Brown, President CinemaQuest, Inc. SMPTE, PAV, THX, ISF, Lion AV Consultants "Advancing the art and science of electronic imaging"

In your experience working with Sony, how alert are they to human perceptual factors relating to viewing environment principles and eye strain (especially regarding the "C" model)? I assume these panels will operate at significantly higher brightness than a typical projection system. Best...

Some displays offer individual settings for each video input used. Others have global settings values for all the vide inputs. In other words, the settings selected for one input would be repeated for all the other inputs. Powering off an external video source device would not change the...

"Parameter values for ultra-high definition television systems for production and international programme exchange" https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.2020-2-201510-I/en Best regards and beautiful pictures, G. Alan Brown, President CinemaQuest, Inc. SMPTE, PVA, THX, ISF, Lion AV Consultants...

ITU-R Recommendation BT.2035 : "A reference viewing environment for evaluation of HDTV program material or completed programmes" https://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BT.2035-0-201307-I/en Best regards and beautiful pictures, G. Alan Brown, President CinemaQuest, Inc. SMPTE, PVA, THX, ISF, Lion AV...

I would love to receive this epic Blu-ray Disc edition! Thanks.

FIBBR Pure2 Fiber Optic HDMI Video Cable Review I was given the opportunity to evaluate a recent video interconnect technology product that promises to provide superior signal transfer for the latest 4K UHD HDR programming. My system has yet to be upgraded for 4K but I want to be familiar with...

We shall see just how successfully these manufacturers and content providers implement this promising initiative. This is nothing new. The professional display calibration community has been enabling this option for discriminating cinephiles at home for decades. As the presumptive "godfather"...