Hmmmm... I'm not sure I understand the illusion part...I've just double checked the EDID specification. On a quick check I didn't find any way for a display to request RGB, YCbCr 4:2:2 or YCbCr 4:4:4. As far as I can see, a display can only say which of those 3 formats it supports. Which format...
The chroma upscaling is carefully implemented in my renderer. I also have different algorithms, including nearest neighbor sampling (simple pixel replication), and they all show the same results.Let me get back to you about the disc numbers, don't have them at hand right now.BTW, Ralph Potts...
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it.I'm ripping all my Blu-ray discs to my big media server for best playback comfort. If the disc or the drive or the rip or my media server were damaging the data in any way, this would not result in a color tint. That's not how h264 compression works. A...
Let's do some math. I've modified my highly accurate HTPC video renderer ("madVR") to output untouched YCbCr data coming directly from the software h264 video decoder. This is as accurate as can be. Here's the YCbCr data of the FOTR title letters:
y = 186-187 = 186.5
cb = 118 = 118.0
cr =...
FWIW, every single Warner Blu-Ray that I've seen so far had bit-for-bit identical video encodings world-wide. I've compared many Warner Blu-Rays Europe vs. USA.
I believe the explanation for why the color regrading looks more extreme on the screenshots compared to real movie watching is simply...
@Charles, just let me say that the new Gladiator transfer is absolutely gorgeous. Reference quality. Wonderful job! I wish every Blu-Ray would look like this... Now, please, could you take over the mastering of the LOTR Extended Edition Blu-Rays, and do just as fine a job there?