Sony adopts original high image quality technology for "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Introduction" Blu-ray Software

On May 27, 2009, "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Introduction" was a digital master version with a new cut "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Introduction EVANGELION: 1.11"It will be released for the first time on Blu-ray and DVD, but it became clear that Sony's original high image quality technology was adopted.

This is the first time that this high image quality technology is adopted as image software, and it will be able to enjoy high-definition video playback with more devices. "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Destruction" to be a sequel on June 27 will be released, but it may be good news for those who want to view "Introduction" with high image quality before that.

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Sony Japan | Press Release | Sony adopts Super Bit Mapping for Video, a proprietary image gradation enhancement technology, to build a BD encoding environment that realizes smooth, high-quality BD software production

According to this release, Sony PCL, which is involved in the planning and production of video content, has developed a gradation complementing technology for video which made it possible to express smooth gradation by arithmetic processing using human visual characteristics developed by Sony "Super Bit Mapping for Video (SBMV)"It is said that he started building a Blu-ray disc production service using the same technology by establishing the encoding environment of the Blu-ray disc adopting it.

This is based on "Super Bit Mapping for Video", in the process of encoding the video content produced by 10 bits into the 8-bit video signal adopted by the Blu-ray software, mainly in the video with the wide gradation area It reduces the "color banding" that the changing point of the gradation looks like a contour line.

This is a comparison between the case of encoding using "Super Bit Mapping for Video (SBMV)" and the case of encoding by the conventional method. Those adopting SBMV are more natural images.


The Blu-ray software "Evangelion New Theatrical Version: Introduction EVANGELION: 1.11" scheduled to be released on May 27 is supposed to be the first work adopting this technology, and the same technology will be adopted for the DVD version I will.