When you won't be able to tell HDTV from real life: Brightside HDR preview
No
matter how much you spent on your HDTV, or what amazing Apple Cinema
display you are reading this post on, Brightside Technology thinks you
haven't seen anything yet. As we reported earlier,
they are taking LCD's and displays in general to the next step, by
producing greater contrast ratios (200k:1), which will increase the
quality of the picture we get from all currently available displays.HDR lighting is quickly becoming all the rage in games, it was used to create the realistic screenshot you see here, and also in Half Life 2: The Lost Coast, and Project Gotham 3. No matter what system or graphics card however, even the best CRT screens are not capable of displaying light throughout the full range your eyes can see, but an HDR display will. Even the 1,000,000:1 display ratio LCD that was recently announced can at it's maximum only get 1/8th as bright as their HDR display.
They say by combining their technology with all the money invested in LCD production already, we will have affordable HDR displays within a couple years. Click the link and see what Bit-tech has to say about their peek at the future.
[Thanks Joe for the link]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adam Green @ Oct 5th 2005 1:17PM
It sounds to me that black levels will certainly improve. Now, what about colors, refresh rate, etc.
Matthew Gallant @ Oct 5th 2005 4:46PM
That's not actually a screenshot of HL2, that is a character rendered from the game composited with an actual photograph. The photographer used a complex method (using a mirrored sphere) to capture the lighting parameters of the environment the photo was taken in, and then used that data in the rendering of the HL2 character. Then he photoshopped it onto the bed.
Richard Lawler @ Oct 5th 2005 4:47PM
Good catch, I should have said picture, not screenshot, I included a link to the original thread on how to create those pictures on your own if you click the picture itself.