Panasonic: Filmmaker mode that turns off image interpolation coming to OLED TVs in 2020
Panasonic is going to introduce the recently announced movie maker mode on its OLED TVs that will be released next year. With this mode recently unveiled by the UHD Alliance, consumers can turn off the image interpolation algorithm on their TV, among other things.
Panasonic will be the first to introduce the filmmaker mode to the OLED TVs it will launch next year, according to a presentation by the manufacturer at the IFA in Berlin, where the website Flatpanelshd was present. In addition, Panasonic explained that the film maker mode can be switched on by means of a button on the remote control. It is likely that after the introduction on its OLED TVs to be released in 2020, Panasonic will add the mode to more TVs.
It is unknown whether the manufacturer will also offer support for automatically switching on the mode via metadata in the video signal in addition to a special button for the movie maker mode. At the unveiling of the mode, the UHD Alliance announced that such automatic activation will also be possible, although individual manufacturers will have to support it in their TVs. Vizio will also implement the movie maker mode in TVs that the manufacturer will launch next year; LG also has plans to add the mode, but it has not announced more details about it yet.
Filmmaker mode is the result of a collaboration between the UHD Alliance and a number of Hollywood directors, including Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan. Television picture interpolation algorithms, which are available on quite a few consumer televisions, are a thorn in the side of directors; they want to present movies to consumers in which the rendering corresponds as closely as possible to their intention when the movie was made. According to them, image processing techniques from TVs, such as adding frames via image interpolation, do not fit in with this. Without image interpolation, the original frame rate of typically 24 frames per second is maintained. Things like noise reduction and sharpening the images are also turned off in the movie maker mode, in which the originally intended colors and contrast must be decisive.