Recent content by Jon Pais

Sure thing! Dolby’s response to Yedlin: “Not all TVs have BT.1886”, “BT1886 only works in reference environment” “contrast is up to each display” “HDR & SDR can only look the same in the grading suite with reference lighting” - all powerful rebuttals to Yedlin’s “only SDR is capable of showing...

Yedlin’s treating Rec. 2100 (or more accurately, P3-D65 ST 2084) as just another color space or container really squanders HDR’s potential. Think if, instead of giving us so many immortal piano works, Beethoven had written for the harpsichord, with its limited range and power. HDR is the process...

The following is the final paragraph from the ChatGPT summary. As colorists, your job is the artful control of relative contrast. Yedlin’s “Debunking HDR” is a reminder that—regardless of whether your client asks for “HDR approval” or “SDR deliverables” —the true creative work happens below the...

Fact-Checking A Few of Steve Yedlin’s Claims CLAIM: SDR Can reproduce subtler increments of luma and chroma at a given bit depth than HDR. FACT-CHECK: If content is authored and displayed strictly within SDR parameters (e.g., 8-bit Rec. 709), it can appear smooth on compatible displays...

Correction: It is not a transcript. What it is is a summary of the presentation. Adam first fed a transcript of the talk to ChatGPT, then he broke it down into sections and emphasized the key takeaways.

Calman Autocal is broken for HDR10

Renowned colorist Thomas Urbye returns LG G5. What’s up with these manufacturers releasing defective flagship TVs at premium prices...

At a workshop at Scandinavian Photo, Leon Barnard of Team 2 Films says the ASUS PA32UCXR can do 16,000 nits, not once, but three times. “It’s got incredible brightness. It can do 16,000 nits peak, 1,000 nits full screen, so it can do 6,000, you know if there's a small portion of the screen, it...

Oh! To disable TPC & GSR. Even with its aggressive ABL, I’d still recommend the ASUS over a consumer TV.

Yes, I’ve got the ASUS PA32UCDM but I haven’t done much grading with it yet. I calibrated it with ASUS ProArt Calibration software. It only took around 1-1/2 minutes! I purchased a Portrait Displays G1 Pattern Generator, C6 HDR5000 colorimeter and a Windows laptop to calibrate my Samsung S90C...

T2F seems to always have wrong information in their videos & this time is no exception. You do not want to use PQ Optimized for grading. And there is no Rec.2100 PQ mode. The correct choice is HDR_PQ BT.2020/PQ Clip.

Yedlin says during the presentation, “the things that are actually different about HDR compared to SDR are all detriments, not advantages.” The man is seriously unwell. https://daejeonchronicles.com/2025/05/12/steve-yedlins-expertise-is-a-sham/ I can assure you that had I written half the...

WHAT??? Yedlin spends like 30 interminable minutes of his 2+ hour presentation talking about how the PQ curve is inferior to SDR gamma 2.4!

As Rec.709 is not supported in HDR workflows (since it was defined in the age of the now-defunct CRT) and has a maximum dynamic range of 6 stops, you’re not really going to lecture us about highlight control, consistency across displays or support in post-production workflows, are you? Rec.709...