[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by Horizon

.... the BBC and Japan's NHK have adopted HLG as their HDR standard which is backwards compataible with current 4k tvs. So, as they are the two most advanced broadcasters in the world, I would assume HLG will be the HDR standard for broadcast tv.

HDR10 and Dolby Vision being the other standards, so it can't be that difficult for VM to have all three built into their new V6 right from the start.

As for SkyQ, I don't know if their boxes can be software upgraded for all three standards. Sky are very quiet on the issue, but as they're going to launch 4k footie, they must be using at least one HDR standard and as HLG is able to be used for all current 4k tvs, I think you have your answer...

By the looks of it, both options are going to be part of the DVB standard:
http://www.digitaltveurope.net/55116...ecommendation/

Wood said that the HDR TV recommendation of the ITU-R is now due on July 4. He said that the recommendation for HDR, which can be applied to 4K and 8K video, but also to existing 1080p HD TV, includes both the Perceptual Quantizer (PQ) system – recommended by Dolby – and the Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) system, developed originally by the BBC and NHK. Wood said the ITU-R should have a recommendation on PG or HLG soon.

The ITU then seem to have decided to keep both options:
http://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/2016-PR27.aspx

The HDR-TV Recommendation details two options for producing High Dynamic Range TV images. The Perceptual Quantization (PQ) specification achieves a very wide range of brightness levels using a transfer function that is finely tuned to match the human visual system and the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) specification which offers a degree of compatibility with legacy displays by more closely matching the previously established television transfer curves. The Recommendation also outlines a simple conversion process between the two HDR-TV options.