The SMPTE has issued the recommendations of its High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging Ecosystem technical committee (10E SG). Comprised of some 170 experts, the report examines the issues at stake in the current HDR ecosystem, and identifies areas which need to be tackled. With a hefty set of appendixes that contain the (sometimes conflicting) views of key stakeholders, the report aims to propose definitions for HDR and its related technologies, describe the problems in the current HDR ecosystem, and identify the existing standards that may be impacted by the rise of HDR – with a view to identifying areas that require further investigation. First off the bat, the report calls for the standardization of the reference panels that the content…