Technicolor certified bluray player

[Smokey]

Toshiba announced that its first 4k bluray player BDX6400 is the first Blu-ray player manufacturer to be awarded 4K Image Certification by Technicolor. Technicolor is leveraging its expertise in Hollywood color and imaging science to certify that Toshiba’s BDX6400 Blu-ray Player will deliver improved viewing experiences for consumers at home.

Technicolor certification mean that Toshiba’s 4K image processing technology can up-scales “less than 4K” content to near 4K quality without inserting image-damaging artifacts. Using new Marseille VTV-122X video processing chips which up-converts SD and HD 2D video to 4K resolution, only 4K up-converting chips to pass the Technicolor 4K Image Certified test suite.

Side-by-side test comparing native 4K source material with upconverted HD material on Sony XBR 4K TV sets was extremely impressive. The images were very difficult to tell apart.

HDTV Magazine - HDTV Expert - Marseille?s Spectacular 4K Up-Converting Chips

[Feanor]

The technology might be an advance but I suspect the certification is more a promotional gimmick than anything else, sort of like THX Certification.

[Smokey]

Technicolor certification seem to be more stringent than THXs.

This is from AVS forum:

Technicolor announced this week that it has developed a certification program to assure high-quality 4K upscaling. The program includes over 100 tests of image quality, including motion video, still images, and text using a wide variety of reference test patterns and evaluation by Technicolor's team of "golden eyes."

Objective measurements include spatial bandwidth (blur and aliasing), geometry (cropping and spatial shift, aspect ratio mismatch), temporal judder and de-interlacing artifacts, grayscale clipping and non-linearity, color misalignment versus luminance, jaggies, noise reduction, sharpness-filter ringing, and graphics/GUI rendering.

[JoeE SP9]

Didn't THX start out with some actual requirements before degenerating to nothing but an ad supported cash cow?

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Didn't THX start out with some actual requirements before degenerating to nothing but an ad supported cash cow?

Yes they did. And pressure to increase revenue caused a downshift in those requirements.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Technicolor certification seem to be more stringent than THXs.

This is from AVS forum:

It is really not more stringent at all. They are actually about the same. Technicolor is no longer doing much film, so to remain relevant in the digital world they are branching out into all kinds of movie and HT related areas to generate revenue. It is the same history as THX.

[E-Stat]

...caused a downshift in those requirements.

Downshift? As in they will certify any crappy computer system that comes along?

It's sure good to know that $119.98 buys you "immersive studio-quality audio"

[Smokey]

Downshift? As in they will certify any crappy computer system that comes along?

Actually that is pretty decent system considering its price and what is available out there. It deliever where it matter with 200 watts (RMS) of power, with 130 watts reserve for the subwoofer.

I couldn't find the peak power or THD% specifications for this system, but if THD is below 1% it would also get a thumbs up from me too