#dolby labs

View from the 16th floor patio of the Dolby Labs building in San Francisco. Our first stop on day one is the Dolby Labs in downtown San Francisco. The tour familiarized us with the partnership of Netflix and Dolby to bring better picture quality to their streaming service. Our two-day trip to Netflix HQ in Los Gatos, California and Dolby Labs in downtown San Francisco gave us a quick glimpse on the behind-the-scenes on the post-production and the technology involved to get the best picture at the lowest possible bit rate to your living room. In this first of a series of articles, we take you to the Dolby Labs in the heart of San Francisco where movies and Netflix Originals such as the Iron Fist go thru mastering and/or color-grading. The Mastering Room This is one of my favorite rooms in Dolby Labs. To ensure accurate monitoring in color grading for Dolby Vision HDR, D’Amore uses a Dolby 4,000-nit Pulsar display alongside a 4K monitor for the SDR color grade. For Netflix streaming, the same data stream informs both HDR and SDR formats, with the encoded Dolby Vision metadata optimizing the resulting image for the viewer’s display, regardless of its brightness, so audiences get an enhanced experience whether they are watching Marvel’s Iron Fist on an HDR TV or not. Read more in our articles including "#NetflixLabs Day 1: Dolby Labs on Mobile, HDR and Iron Fist" and "OPPO Reno15 Series 5G: Delivering the Complete Mobile Creator Experience".