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Is the rec.2020 UHD color broadcast spec really practical?
I’ve often advocated on this blog for Pointer’s Gamut as an important design goal for display makers but is it really practical today from a technology perspective? Pointer’s Gamut covers a huge area...
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Watching the World Cup finals this weekend? Your HDTV probably can’t show off...
Lionel Messi laces up some bright blue boots- these super saturated Adidas Sambas were designed for the FIFA World Cup 2014 (image source: Adidas) If you’ve been following the FIFA World Cup this...
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We’ve moved!
The dot-color blog has moved to a new domain at Nanosys. The change is due in part to the success of the blog (we’re seriously amazed to have had over 100,000 visitors since we started, thank you for...
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Are tennis balls yellow or green?
Tennis star Roger Federer’s answer to this seemingly innocuous question via twitter user @delaneyanndold caused a bit of a stir on social media earlier this week. According to Mr. Federer, tennis balls...
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Introducing Wide Gamut Wednesdays
This week I’m kicking off a new series of posts that set out to answer a simple question: “Can an HDTV accurately reproduce these colors?” I’m calling the new weekly feature “Wide Color Gamut...
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2018 World Cup: Watching in 4K HDR makes a difference
Color survey of the Top 10 World Cup countries for 2018 The 2018 World Cup is officially underway with a blowout victory for host country Russia today. Over the next month, an estimated 3.4 billion...
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What is the “Color Gamut” of a Fireworks Show?
Editor’s Note: If you read this blog, there’s a decent chance that at some point you’ve gazed up at the impressive spectacle of a July 4th fireworks show and wondered to yourself, “what color gamut,...
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World Cup Follow-up (Part 1)
A few weeks ago I kicked off the World Cup with a survey of the top 10 ranked country’s colors. At the time, it was impractical to acquire and measure actual jerseys for each World Cup team (32 total)...
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World Cup Follow-up (Part 2)
After much internet searching and a few cancelled deliveries we finally have our Croatia jersey! A bit too late for the big game but still thought it would be interesting to take a look at the data for...
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Reproducing Colors We’ve Never Seen Before – the “The Wizard of Oz” in HDR
Watching the latest superhero movie release – loaded with CGI and eye-melting explosions – is obviously a great way to test the cinematic benefits of High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG)...
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