Sinclair Says It Will Launch HDR on RSNs in Q3

Sinclair plans to offer HDR content in the Technicolor format for its Bally Sports regional sports networks beginning in Q3, it said Thursday. It plans demonstrations at the NAB Show, it said. SL-HDR1, part of the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards, uses a backward-compatible approach, letting content producers deliver a single video stream to new and legacy TVs that's viewable as HDR on newer devices and standard dynamic range on legacy sets, it said. Sinclair's "no compromise" approach renders "the highest quality viewing experience possible today, supplementing events captured in HDR," said President-Technology Del Parks. "On the distribution side, it is the smart way to deliver SDR and HDR content efficiently in a single, universal transmission format.”