At IBC, the BBC presented an award-winning whitepaper which showed how existing screens can show High Dynamic Range content. The technology can be built into an HEVC Main 10 signal that would also provide a signal to non-HDR displays – providing a screen-independent implementation of the technology reliant on HEVC. It all got very technical in the presentation, so we’ll try to outline the main thrust of the technology here, but at the core of the matter, the BBC wants to change the way that content is treated right from the moment of capture, in order to create video that can be carried along the same pipes to screens and interpreted according to the ability of the screen. Presented and…