SIM2’s latest achievement, the Grand Cinema™ SOLAR Series, has been created to deliver images so realistic that the display becomes a window into the world. Using proprietary technologies, SIM2’s Grand Cinema™ SOLAR Series is not only a ground-breaking reference quality product series capable of delivering spectacular images, but one that will lead the next generation of flat panel display devices.

The SIM2 Grand Cinema™ SOLAR 47 display series utilizes Dolby Vision technology coupled with SIM2’s unique SOLAR platform. Dolby Vision features a proprietary algorithm that manages a set of LEDs behind the liquid crystal panel. Each LED is controlled individually in concert with the image being displayed. By selectively turning off the backlight behind black areas in picture scenes, Dolby Vision allows those areas to produce true black. Dolby Vision also has the ability to simultaneously and selectively brighten the backlights behind bright picture areas, allowing them to display peak whites with crisp clarity. The SIM2 Grand Cinema™ SOLAR 47 delivers outstanding contrast and brightness, delivering picture quality that matches our real-world visual perception of image depth, detail, and colour.

The Grand Cinema™ SOLAR 47 display is able to utilise the full 16 bit processing required for HDR signals, to produce an amazing 65,536 shades per colour, compared to the mere 1,024 available from today’s most-advanced displays. This new display series renders smooth, clear images that appear to come to life on screen- the result is simply incomparable to conventional displays.

The core of the system, the Back Light Unit (BLU) and Dolby Vision processing, enables the display to deliver astonishing picture quality, whilst maintaining the overall power efficiency of the system. And, SIM2’s HD scaling and de-interlacing capabilities maintain purity under actual content-playback conditions, and do much to enhance the perceived quality of lesser video formats.

About HDR
High Dynamic Range Imagery technology, in short HDR, was born initially for ultra high-end photography is now applied in the Video segment, targeting markets that range from Consumer Electronics (mostly videogames etc.) to professional (Virtual Reality, post processing, hospitality, security, defence etc.) and scientific applications (biomedical, education etc.)
The final goal of an HDR system is to manage an electronic image achieving the high dynamic range the human eyes (Human Visual System = HVS) can withstand in term of the brightness of a Real Life picture scene. According to the HDR approach, to represent the brightness range from a shiny sunny mid day to the darkness of a moonless night, the highest contrast ratio displaying technology is thus required.
The most effective way to obtain such a display is to use an LCD panel replacing its common Back Light Unit (B.L.U.), typically based on a set of Cold Cathode Fluorescent tube Lamps (CCFL), with an array of high power white LEDs.
The idea is to light each small zone of the picture displayed on the LCD with a LED driven by the
luminous intensity related to that small area of the picture.
That means if a scene has black details, keep off the LEDs under those details to achieve a true black, while where is an high luminous intensity area, put the LEDs under it to their maximum power. Grey scale areas are thus obtained modulating to intermediate levels the intensity of the LEDs using the so-called HDR picture processing.
Up to now, not only proper devices capable to display these pictures were not available. but also a proper REFERENCE DESIGN for developing and testing effectively HDR displays was missing. In order to cover this gap SIM2 developed a new class of REFERENCE MONITORS incorporating DolbyVision technology for HDR imaginary.
As HDR regards the entire digital imaging process, from camera to encoding and storing, up to the final display, SIM2 accepted to pick-up the challenge to develop the Reference Design of an HDR
monitor.