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Title: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: alangouger on May 25, 2017, 02:33:04 AM
What is it?
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: bmoney on May 25, 2017, 08:35:49 AM
i know its just a screenshot...but looks exactly as my rs400 looks in my room
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/bcfineberg/7F5C1E0E-CB72-4F8A-A214-CEFC6D86AD0F_zpsemryuc4i.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/bcfineberg/media/7F5C1E0E-CB72-4F8A-A214-CEFC6D86AD0F_zpsemryuc4i.jpg.html)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/bcfineberg/7499B41F-CC97-4565-A46A-48D82101191F_zpsenwi0bv1.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/bcfineberg/media/7499B41F-CC97-4565-A46A-48D82101191F_zpsenwi0bv1.jpg.html)
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSCraig on May 25, 2017, 01:00:59 PM
i know its just a screenshot...but looks exactly as my rs400 looks in my room
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/bcfineberg/7F5C1E0E-CB72-4F8A-A214-CEFC6D86AD0F_zpsemryuc4i.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/bcfineberg/media/7F5C1E0E-CB72-4F8A-A214-CEFC6D86AD0F_zpsemryuc4i.jpg.html)
(http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b159/bcfineberg/7499B41F-CC97-4565-A46A-48D82101191F_zpsenwi0bv1.jpg) (http://s19.photobucket.com/user/bcfineberg/media/7499B41F-CC97-4565-A46A-48D82101191F_zpsenwi0bv1.jpg.html)

What type screen are you using ? 
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSCraig on May 25, 2017, 01:01:24 PM
What is it?

I give up - tell us !
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: bmoney on May 25, 2017, 02:56:34 PM
What type screen are you using ?

White over black millskin spandex DIY
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSMike on May 26, 2017, 11:49:46 AM
What is it?

Do not know what projector, but I bet it is a DCI unit. :) You still using V5 AT screen?
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: alangouger on May 31, 2017, 10:06:09 AM
While the pictures look similar the picture I posted in reality is much much brighter but our cameras cannot show this they shut down its iris.

My picture shows the new SIM2 HDR Duo which projects the very high dynamic range needed to properly display HDR.

As a surprise I was going to offer a free system to the person who guessed it was the SIM2 HDR Duo BUT no one guessed it :)

 
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSCraig on May 31, 2017, 11:46:29 AM
While the pictures look similar the picture I posted in reality is much much brighter but our cameras cannot show this they shut down its iris.

My picture shows the new SIM2 HDR Duo which projects the very high dynamic range needed to properly display HDR.

As a surprise I was going to offer a free system to the person who guessed it was the SIM2 HDR Duo BUT no one guessed it :)

Alan, is there a link to info on the HDR Duo ? I don't see anything on Sim2 USA's website. 
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: alangouger on May 31, 2017, 12:43:15 PM
Craig good catch. That was because as of most recently it was not an official product more of a concept but thanks to the SIM2 engineering and a host of others including Joe Kane the concept is now in production and offered for sale.

http://www.sim2.com/home/en/hdr-duo-en

More to follow.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSMike on May 31, 2017, 12:45:40 PM
While the pictures look similar the picture I posted in reality is much much brighter but our cameras cannot show this they shut down its iris.

My picture shows the new SIM2 HDR Duo which projects the very high dynamic range needed to properly display HDR.

As a surprise I was going to offer a free system to the person who guessed it was the SIM2 HDR Duo BUT no one guessed it :)

Was coming back to say Sim2 Duo, but too late. :) I figured it out after getting the email on Friday's meeting. :)
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: alangouger on May 31, 2017, 12:48:13 PM
Also more info here.

http://dci-forum.com/sim2-product-support-forum/16/#.WS7zKca1uHA
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSMike on May 31, 2017, 01:41:07 PM
Are you running the Sim2 HDR Duo in your room now?
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSCraig on May 31, 2017, 01:56:24 PM
Also more info here.

http://dci-forum.com/sim2-product-support-forum/16/#.WS7zKca1uHA

I saw that demo at Cedia !  :)
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: Dylan Seeger on June 01, 2017, 01:04:36 AM
I'd love to get something like this to demo in my theater. I've gone through so many different projectors it would be nice to try something so "new" out in my theater.

I always forget, but how much contrast is in a single f-stop? I see it's spec'ed for 9000 lumens. That would be bright enough for a 30 square foot screen to be able to meet the 1000 nit peak white level for "full" UHD BD HDR10 support. Or you could use a higher gain screen, but that gives me great pause. I've seen very few screen materials that would tempt me to move away from my current unity gain screen.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: stanger89 on June 01, 2017, 12:43:44 PM
I'd really love to see some sort of technical explanation on how stacking two "low" dynamic range machines on the same screen creates a "high" dynamic range image.

I remember the description from CEDIA talking about how one projector is for the bright content and one for the darker content.  I found this thread that goes into a bit more detail...
http://dci-forum.com/sim2-product-support-forum/16/hdr-projection-sim2-solution/1623/

However the fundamental problem remains, that the light adds between the two projectors, so if the "bright" projector is showing "nothing" (black) it will still be washing out the black level of the "dark" projector.  Or are they putting a shutter or something in the bright projector so that it's output is completely blocked?

FWIW, from the above article, it seems dynamic range is pretty much in line with a standard Lumis as you might expect:
Results
Screen Area 73,6 sqft Screen Gain 1
Illuminance Measurement
Peak White 1020 lx
Black Level 0,045 lx


1020/0.045 = 22,667:1.

So is there really more to this than just a stacked Lumis pair to achieve really high brightness levels?
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: stanger89 on June 01, 2017, 12:45:42 PM
I always forget, but how much contrast is in a single f-stop?

In photography, talking about exposure, a "stop" is a factor of 2.  So 10 stops is 2^10, a factor of 1024, so, 1024:1.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: Dylan Seeger on June 01, 2017, 01:51:04 PM
I'd really love to see some sort of technical explanation on how stacking two "low" dynamic range machines on the same screen creates a "high" dynamic range image.

I remember the description from CEDIA talking about how one projector is for the bright content and one for the darker content.  I found this thread that goes into a bit more detail...
http://dci-forum.com/sim2-product-support-forum/16/hdr-projection-sim2-solution/1623/

However the fundamental problem remains, that the light adds between the two projectors, so if the "bright" projector is showing "nothing" (black) it will still be washing out the black level of the "dark" projector.  Or are they putting a shutter or something in the bright projector so that it's output is completely blocked?

FWIW, from the above article, it seems dynamic range is pretty much in line with a standard Lumis as you might expect:
Results
Screen Area 73,6 sqft Screen Gain 1
Illuminance Measurement
Peak White 1020 lx
Black Level 0,045 lx


1020/0.045 = 22,667:1.

So is there really more to this than just a stacked Lumis pair to achieve really high brightness levels?

That is native contrast or is that with a dynamic iris? That seems to be in line with my last Lumis I had here. I measured right around 25000:1 dynamic contrast.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSMike on June 01, 2017, 04:20:58 PM
I saw that demo at Cedia !  :)

Yes we did. :) It looked good. I was surprised at how many FL they were putting on the screen.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSMike on June 01, 2017, 04:24:37 PM
I'd really love to see some sort of technical explanation on how stacking two "low" dynamic range machines on the same screen creates a "high" dynamic range image.

I remember the description from CEDIA talking about how one projector is for the bright content and one for the darker content.  I found this thread that goes into a bit more detail...
http://dci-forum.com/sim2-product-support-forum/16/hdr-projection-sim2-solution/1623/

However the fundamental problem remains, that the light adds between the two projectors, so if the "bright" projector is showing "nothing" (black) it will still be washing out the black level of the "dark" projector.  Or are they putting a shutter or something in the bright projector so that it's output is completely blocked?

FWIW, from the above article, it seems dynamic range is pretty much in line with a standard Lumis as you might expect:
Results
Screen Area 73,6 sqft Screen Gain 1
Illuminance Measurement
Peak White 1020 lx
Black Level 0,045 lx


1020/0.045 = 22,667:1.

So is there really more to this than just a stacked Lumis pair to achieve really high brightness levels?

I do not remember the details, but yes, there is a lot more to this.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: AVSCraig on June 01, 2017, 06:14:57 PM
Yes we did. :) It looked good. I was surprised at how many FL they were putting on the screen.

It was pretty bright.
(http://elliotts.net/content/images/thumbs/0001173_the-big-red-confined-space-welding-hood-and-helmet.jpeg)
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: stanger89 on June 02, 2017, 12:04:54 PM
That is native contrast or is that with a dynamic iris? That seems to be in line with my last Lumis I had here. I measured right around 25000:1 dynamic contrast.

I assume dynamic, but the thread didn't have a lot of details.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: Kris Deering on June 05, 2017, 08:38:32 PM
I've seen this demo twice now. The only way it would truly "work" is if the DMD's could shut off, and use a processor as essentially a digital crossover for video. But that is not the case. So they have one projector optimized for the dark content and one for the bright. The combination gives you more light output on the top end and a bit more bit depth on the bottom end, but the black levels will still be worse than a single DLP projector, and that was already bad. But highlight info will look good. The question is at this price is it worth it? How much of P3 does it cover? How does it handle the tone mapping? There is more to an image than just adding brightness at exponentially more cost.
Title: Re: Looks like a giant plasma but its not.
Post by: stanger89 on June 08, 2017, 11:17:29 AM
Thanks for the update Kris.  That's what I was wondering.  It would make sense that you could use the second, dimmer projector to fill in some detail, resolution (bits) on on the dark side, but of course your black level is still limited to the sum of the minimum light output of the two.
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