Title: Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark
Genres: Documentary
Country: USA
Date Published: March 1, 2023 (United States)
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Link: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27891970/
Directors: Don Munsil, Stacey Spears
Creators:  Don Munsil,  Stacey Spears
Actors:
Introduction
  The Spears and Munsil UHD Benchmark gives professionals and enthusiasts access to a wealth of test and demonstration materials to tell them what their displays are doing, identify weak links in their setup, and dial in optimal settings.Whether you're a home cinema enthusiast or a professional calibrator, you'll find all the tests you need to set up, evaluate and adjust your Ultra HD TV in the Spears and Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark. Previous editions of Spears and Munsil Benchmark Discs have been recommended by the New York Times, Sound and Vision, Home Theater Magazine, Widescreen Review and dozens of other print and online publications. This new Ultra HD edition contains all-new patterns optimized for SDR, HDR, wide color gamut and UHD resolutions. The Spears and Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark is the most accurate and comprehensive UHD test disc available anywhere. Every pattern was created using our exclusive ultra-high-precision software tools and represents the state of the art in video reproduction. This is Hand Forged Video.

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Seattle, WA—March 1, 2023—Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, acclaimed creators of the Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark series, are pleased to announce the release of the Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark, a three-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc set with more unique patterns than any previous calibration tool. The New York Times and leading audio/video industry publications have recommended previous versions of the Benchmark. The Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark adds even more features and patterns, and brings Spears & Munsil’s famous precision and attention to detail to the calibration and evaluation of UHD displays.

The Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark gives professionals and enthusiasts alike access to a wealth of test and demonstration materials to tell them what their displays are doing, identify weak links in their hardware and software, and dial in the optimal settings not only for their equipment, but for future equipment that hasn’t even been designed yet.

“Every pattern has been rethought with High Dynamic Range and Ultra HD in mind,” said co-creator Stacey Spears. “We believe this disc completely changes the game for test and evaluation discs, by making use of all of the features and range that HDR and wide-gamut standards can offer.” Almost every pattern is encoded in multiple versions, with metadata and peak levels adjusted for a wide variety of HDR display technologies. “The previous disc had 1000 separate encoded files, which was a high water mark for evaluation discs at the time,” Spears added. “We blew past that record with this new set, which includes over 5000 separate video and audio clips!”

Like the previous discs, the Spears & Munsil Ultra HD Benchmark uses patterns created from scratch using Spears & Munsil’s own in-house software. “There really isn’t any other way to make patterns that we can stand behind,” said co-creator Don Munsil. “We build every pattern using our own tools, written from scratch in C++. If a pattern needs to be generated directly in a very specific color space and data format, we generate it in that color space and format; we’re not limited to what you can do with off-the-shelf graphics software. In a few cases we’ve had to create our own format, because no existing file format could represent the pattern we needed to create.”

The disc includes new editions of some favorite patterns from the earlier editions, plus many new patterns exclusive to Spears & Munsil. It also expands the range of formats and encodings supported “In this set, we’ve included video in HD and UHD resolution, in SDR (encoded in both BT.2020 and BT.709 color spaces), HDR10 (with multiple target peak luminance options), HDR10+ and Dolby Vision,” said Spears. “On the audio side, we include test material in both Dolby Atmos and DTS:X, which is completely compatible with earlier iterations of Dolby Digital and DTS.”

As with the previous editions, the S&M Ultra HD Benchmark contains patterns suitable for the professional calibrator or serious enthusiast who wants a complete suite of test patterns usable with spectroradiometers and colorimeters. “These patterns are tested by real industry professionals, multiple times over multiple iterations, before we put them on the disc,” said Spears. “These are the same patterns used regularly by the same people who produce your displays, players, and movie content.”

High Dynamic Range (HDR) was designed with the future in mind. Instead of creating a standard based solely on the capabilities of existing displays, the video-standards bodies designed HDR to meet the capabilities of future displays as well. Properly implemented, HDR content remains back-compatible with today’s technology while making available metadata and picture information that will produce brighter, more dynamic, more colorful images on the displays of tomorrow. For years, content has had to be mastered for the lowest-common-denominator displays, not the newest and most capable consumer displays, which have long been capable of producing a brighter image with wider gamut. The new standards

mean that content can be smartly scaled to use the color depth and dynamic range of the display, which means the content you today will actually look better on tomorrow’s display technologies.

“HDR represents a new way of thinking about video,” said Munsil, “with a completely different approach to transfer functions, or what we used to call ‘gamma,’ and that meant that a bunch of old patterns just plain didn’t work anymore. Video is now encoded for very-high-brightness devices, and then has to be remapped by the display to fit that display’s actual capabilities. Needless to say, every display does it a little differently—now, with the Ultra HD Benchmark, enthusiasts and professionals will be able to get insight into exactly what the display does when it makes those important remapping decisions.”


Getting Started

Ultra HD Benchmark Booklet

Disc 1 - Configuration/HDR Patterns:

Contents
Configuration: Dolby Vision (Default)
Dolby Vision (Analysis)
Perceptual
Absolute
Relative
Configuration: HDR10+
Configuration: HDR10
Peak Luminance (cd/m²)
350
600
1000
2,000
4000
10,000

Audio Format (A/V Sync):
Dolby Atmos
Dolby TrueHD
DTS:X
DTS-HD MA

Video Setup: Baseline
Brightness
Contrast
Color and Tint
Sharpness
Color Temp
Framing
Bias Light
Color Space Evaluation
Color Space Evaluation HFR
Color Space Evaluation HD

Video Setup: Optical Comparator
Fixed
Red
Green
Blue
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%

A/V Sync
Framerate
23.976
59.94
Resolution
HD
Ultra HD
Continuous
Side-to-Side
Sync-One2 Calibration
Sync-One2

Advanced Video: Evaluation
Dynamic Range High
Dynamic Range Low
Scaling
Scaling HD
Scaling 2.39:1
Scaling 2.39:1 HD
EOTF ST2084
EOTF Combined
Image Cropping
Geometry
1:1 Pixel Horizontal
1:1 Pixel Vertical
1:3 Pixel Diamond
Single Pixel Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard (Alt)
Dots Black
Dots White

Advanced Video: Evaluation Color
Dynamic Range High Red
Dynamic Range High Green
Dynamic Range High Blue
Dynamic Range Low Red
Dynamic Range Low Green
Dynamic Range Low Blue
Clipping (cd/m²)
Clipping (Code Value)
Hue Shift
HSV Sweep BT.709|BT.2020
HSV Sweep P3D65|BT.2020
HSV Sweep BT.2020
Color and Tint Red
Color and Tint Green
Color and Tint Blue
HDR Color Bars
Color Bars
Tartan Bars
Chroma Alignment
Chroma Align (Num)
Chroma Align (Num) HD
Chroma Upsampling Eval
Variable Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard (Alt)
Zone Plate
Monotonicity YCbCr
Monotonicity RGB

Advanced Video: Ramps
Gamut
P3D65|BT.2020
BT.2020

Ramp
Stimulus
Stimulus Steps
White
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow

Saturation
Saturation Steps
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow

Tone Mapping
White

Advanced Video: Resolution
Resolution
Multiburst
Wedge
Zone Plate
Luma:
Non-Linear Linear ST 2084

Chroma (64): Chroma (502):
Chroma Chroma
Chroma Crossed Chroma Crossed
Cb Cb
Cr Cr

RGB Legal:
Cb Cr
Red Green
Blue Cyan
Magenta Yellow


Advanced Video: Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
1.43:1
1.67:1
1.78:1
1.85:1
1.896:1
2:1
2.2:1
2.35:1
2.39:1
2.55:1
2.76:1

Advanced Video: Panel
Pixel Aging
Peak Luminance
Luminance Loading
FALD Zone Counter
Dynamic Contrast
Spatio-Temporal Noise
Starfield Low
Starfield Medium
Viewing Angle
Viewing Angle Dots
Large-area Uniformity 0%
Large-area Uniformity 100%

Advanced Video: Contrast Ratio
Simultaneous (0 / 20 cd/m²):
Alignment
4x4 Checkboard
4x4 Checkboard (Alt)

Simultaneous (0 / 10K cd/m²):
Alignment
4x4 Checkerboard
4x4 Checkerboard (Alt)

Sequential:
Alignment
On - 100%
Off - 0%
Off - Single Pixel
Off - White Surround
Off - Peak
Off - Corner Box
Off - Spatio-Temporal Noise
Off - Starfield Low
Off - Starfield Medium

Advanced Video: PCA
On
Off - 1
Off - 2
Off - 3
Off - 4
Off - 5
Off - 6
Off - 7
Off - 8
Off - 9

Advanced Video: ADL
Stimulus
40%
100%
On: Off:
1% 1%
2% 2%
3% 3%
4% 4%
5% 5%
10% 10%
15% 15%
20% 20%
25% 25%
30% 30%

Advanced Video: Motion
Motion Resolution Half Cosine
Motion Resolution Square
Quantization Rotate RGB
Quantization Rotate CMY
Quantization Rotate YCbCr
Quantization Motion
Quantization 2D Cb
Quantization 2D Cr
Luma Wedge
xXx Parade
Stock Ticker (23.976)
Stock Ticker (24)
Color Smearing
Motion Interpolation
Sarah on a Hammock

Advanced Video: Motion HFR
Motion Resolution Half Cosine
Motion Resolution Square
Quantization Rotate RGB
Quantization Rotate CMY
Quantization Rotate YCbCr
Quantization Motion
Quantization 2D Cb
Quantization 2D Cr
Luma Wedge
xXx Parade
Stock Ticker (59.94)
Stock Ticker (60)
Color Smearing
Motion Interpolation
Sarah on a Hammock

Advanced Video: Specialty
Dolby Vision
Perceptual
Absolute
HDR10
Peak Luminance (cd/m²)
0
350
600
1000
2,000
4000
10,000
Dynamic Range High
Dynamic Range Low
Clipping (cd/m²)
Clipping (Code Value)
Tone Mapping
Hue Shift

Analysis: Grayscale
Size
Field
Window
Alignment
0% 1% 2% 3% 4%
5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
55% 60% 65% 70% 75%
80% 85% 90% 95% 100%

Analysis: cd/m²
Size
Field
Window
1
10
100
203
350
600
1000
2000
4000
10,000

Analysis: Peak vs. Size
1%
2%
5%
10%
25%
50%
75%
100%

Analysis: ColorChecker
White
Gray 80
Gray 65
Gray 50
Gray 35
Dark Skin
Light Skin
Blue Sky
Foliage
Blue Flower
Bluish Green
Orange
Purplish Blue
Moderate Red
Purple
Yellow Green
Orange Yellow
Blue
Green
Red
Yellow
Magenta
Cyan

Analysis: Saturation Sweeps
Gamut
P3D65|BT.2020
BT.2020
Stimulus: 58%
Grayscale: 100%
Red: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Green: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Blue: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Cyan: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Magenta:20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Yellow: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Analysis: Gamut
Gamut
UHDA-P3D65|BT.2020
P3D65|BT.2020
BT.2020
Stimulus: 100%
White
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
White 100



Disc 2 - HDR Demonstration Material and Skin Tones:

Configuration: Dolby Vision
Configuration: HDR10+
Configuration: HDR10
Peak Luminance (cd/m²):
350
600
1000
2000
4000
10,000

Motion
Color Smearing
Near-black Overdrive

Motion HFR
Color Smearing
Near-black Overdrive

Skin Tones
Alex
Alexandra
Gabriela
Jacely
Jennie
Joy
Monette
Yoko
3x3 Matrix
Group

Demonstration Material
Dolby Vision:
10,000 BT.2020

HDR10+:
10,000 BT.2020

Advanced HDR by Technicolor:
1000 BT.2020

HDR10:
10,000 BT.2020
2000 BT.2020
1000 BT.2020
600 BT.2020
HDR Analyzer
HDR VS. SDR
Graded vs. Ungraded

Hybrid Log Gamma:
1000 BT.2020

SDR:
BT.709


Disc 3 - SDR Patterns and Audio Configuration:

Configuration
Color Space
BT.709
BT.2020

Audio Format (A/V Sync)
Dolby Atmos
Dolby TrueHD
DTS:X
DTS-HD MA

Audio Levels and Bass Management:
Audio Format
Dolby
DTS

Base Layer
5.1
7.1
9.1

Top Layer
2
4
6

Video Set Up: Baseline
Brightness
Contrast
Color and Tint
Sharpness
Color Temp
Framing
Gamma
Backlight
Bias Light
Color Space Evaluation
Color Space Evaluation HFR
Color Space Evaluation HD

Video Set Up: Optical Comparator
Fixed
Red
Green
Blue
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%

Audio: Levels
Pink Noise 500 Hz to 2 kHz (-30 dBFS)
Pink Noise 30 Hz to 80 Hz (-40 dBFS LFE)
Base Layer
Top Layer

Audio: Bass Management
Filtered Pink Noise 30 Hz to 50 Hz (-30 dBFS)
Filtered Pink Noise 30 Hz to 50 Hz (-40 dBFS LFE)
Base Layer
Top Layer

Audio: Panning
Circular:
Base Layer
Top Layer
Base layer and Top Layer
Diagonal:
Top Front Left to Top Rear Right
Top Front Right to Top Rear Left
Front Left to Right Surround Rear
Front Right to Left Surround Rear

Audio: Rattle Test
Low Frequency (-10 dBFS):
500 Hz to 200 Hz Sweep
200 Hz to 15 Hz Sweep

Audio: A/V Sync
Framerate
23.976
59.94
Resolution
Hd
Ultra HD
Continuous
Side-to-Side
Sync-One2 Calibration
Sync-One2

Advanced Video: Evaluation
Dynamic Range High
Dynamic Range Low
Scaling
Scaling HD
Scaling 2.39:1
Scaling 2.39:1 HD
Image Cropping
Geometry
1:1 Pixel Horizontal
1:1 Pixel Vertical
1:3 Pixel Diamond
Single Pixel Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard (Alt)
Dots Black
Dots White

Advanced Video: Evaluation Color
Dynamic Range High Red
Dynamic Range High Green
Dynamic Range High Blue
Dynamic Range Low Red
Dynamic Range Low Green
Dynamic Range Low Blue
Clipping (RGBWK)
Clipping (Code Value)
HSV Sweep
Color and Tint Red
Color and Tint Green
Color and Tint Blue
SDR Color Bars
Color Bars
Tartan Bars
Chroma Alignment
Chroma Align (Num)
Chroma Align (Num) HD
Chroma Upsampling Eval
Variable Checkerboard
Variable Checkerboard (Alt)
Zone Plate
Monotonicity YCbCr
Monotonicity RGB

Advanced Video: Ramps
Ramp
Stimulus
Stimulus Steps
White
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow

Advanced Video: Resolution
Resolution
Multiburst
Wedge
Zone Plate
Luma:
NonLinear Linear Gamma 2.4

Chroma (64): Chroma (502):
Chroma Chroma
Chroma Crossed Chroma Crossed
Cb Cb
Cr Cr

RGB Legal:
Cb Cr
Red Green
Blue Cyan
Magenta Yellow

Advanced Video: Aspect Ratio
1.33:1
1.43:1
1.67:1
1.78:1
1.85:1
1.896:1
2:1
2.2:1
2.35:1
2.39:1
2.55:1
2.76:1

Advanced Video: Panel
Dynamic Contrast
Spatio-Temporal Noise
Starfield Low
Starfield Medium
Viewing Angle
Viewing Angle Dots
Large-area Uniformity 0%
Large-area Uniformity 100%

Advanced Video: Contrast Ratio
Simultaneous (0 / 50%):
Alignment
4x4 Checkerboard
4x4 Checkerboard (Alt)

Simultaneous (0 / 100%):
Alignment
4x4 Checkerboard
4x4 Checkerboard (Alt)

Sequential:
Alignment
On - 100%
Off - 0%
Off - Single Pixel
Off - White Surround
Off - Peak
Off - Corner Box
Off - Spatio-Temporal Noise
Off - Starfield Low
Off - Starfield Medium

Advanced Video: PCA
On
Off - 1
Off - 2
Off - 3
Off - 4
Off - 5
Off - 6
Off - 7
Off - 8
Off - 9

Advanced Video: ADL
Stimulus
40%
100%
On: Off:
1% 1%
2% 2%
3% 3%
4% 4%
5% 5%
10% 10%
15% 15%
20% 20%
25% 25%
30% 30%

Advanced Video: Motion
Motion Resolution Half Cosine
Motion Resolution Square
Quantization Rotate RGB
Quantization Rotate CMY
Quantization Rotate YCbCr
Quantization Motion
Quantization 2D Cb
Quantization 2D Cr
Luma Wedge
xXx Parade
Stock Ticker (23.976)
Stock Ticker (24)
Motion Interpolation
Sarah on a Hammock

Advanced Video: Motion HFR
Motion Resolution Half Cosine
Motion Resolution Square
Quantization Rotate RGB
Quantization Rotate CMY
Quantization Rotate YCbCr
Quantization Motion
Quantization 2D Cb
Quantization 2D Cr
Luma Wedge
xXx Parade
Stock Ticker (59.94)
Stock Ticker (60)
Motion Interpolation
Sarah on a Hammock

Advanced Video: Skin Tones
Alex
Alexandra
Gabriella
Jacely
Jennie
Joy
Monette
Yoko
3x3 Matrix
Group

Advanced Video: Gamma
Combined
1.9
2.0
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6

Analysis: Grayscale
Size
Field
Window
Equal Energy
Alignment
0% 1% 2% 3% 4%
5% 10% 15% 20% 25%
30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
55% 60% 65% 70% 75%
80% 85% 90% 95% 100%

Analysis: Gamut
Size
Field
Window
Equal Energy
Stimulus: 100%
White 75
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
White

Analysis: Color Checker
White
Gray 80
Gray 65
Gray 50
Gray 35
Black
Dark Skin
Light Skin
Blue Sky
Foliage
Blue Flower
Bluish Green
Orange
Purplish Blue
Moderate Red
Purple
Yellow Green
Orange Yellow
Blue
Green
Red
Yellow
Magenta
Cyan
100% Red
100% Green
100% Blue
100% Cyan
100% Magenta
100% Yellow
2E
2F
2K
5D
7E
7F
7G
7H
7I
7J
8D
8E
8F
8G
8H
8I
8J

Analysis: Saturation Sweeps
Stimulus: 75%
Grayscale: 0% 100%
Red: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Green: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Blue: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Cyan: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Magenta: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Yellow: 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Analysis: Luminance Sweeps
Saturation: 100%
Grayscale: 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Red: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Green: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Blue: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Cyan: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Magenta: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Yellow: 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%