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The award-winning madVR Envy uses their patent-pending video processing to deliver the ultimate picture quality in your dedicated home theater. Enjoy the most dramatic yet highly accurate 4K HDR frame by frame dynamic tone mapping, unrivaled 4K upscaling, the fastest black bar & aspect ratio detection and zooming, debanding and compression artifact reduction, specialized sharpening and detail enhancement, 3D LUT calibration with unprecedented precision, and more.


Features
Dynamic Tone Mapping (DTM) for HDR Content

The latest and most exciting development in Home Theater is the production of shows and movies with 4k Resolution, with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wide Color Gamut (WCG). This can create an unprecedented level of realism and visual impact when done right, but there are significant challenges to achieving this in our homes.

Specifically, most HDR mastering is based on having a very high degree of brightness available on the display device – 1,000 nits, or in some cases, up to 10,000 nits. The very best current Televisions can get between 600 and 1,000 nits, while most are 400 nits or less. And when we look at Projectors, with a reasonably large screen size, we’re generally in the 75 to 150 nit range.

As a result, in order to display HDR in Home Theaters having limited brightness, the original signal must be “Tone Mapped” to the range that is actually available. Initial efforts used “Static” Tone Mapping, where a single ‘map’ was used for any and all HDR content, but it really didn’t work well.

The Envy is one of the very few devices that use “Dynamic” Tone Mapping. Here, each and every frame is independently analyzed, and sophisticated algorithms are used to produce the best-looking image. The Envy allows your installer to input the actual Nits available on your screen into the Envy, which it then uses to customize its output for your particular Theater.

This makes a huge difference, and it does a superb job of creating the visual impact made possible by HDR. Before adding the Envy to our test systems, we frequently encountered scenes that were either too dark, others too bright, shadow areas that were murky and without detail, or overly bright clouds that were white blobs, not even looking like clouds.

The Envy has beautifully handled everything we’ve thrown at it, and we’ve been able to just sit back and enjoy the show!

The most recent Firmware provides 5 selectable “Looks” to the Dynamic Tone Mapping, which along with other options available, provides the ability to fully ‘tweak’ the image to look its best in your own theater.

Aspect Ratio Management

The movies and shows we enjoy can vary quite a bit in their Aspect Ratio – from the HDTV standard of 16:9 to 2.00:1 often used by Netflix, all the way to 2.40:1 for most blockbuster films. This makes things difficult for any display device, and very often the picture gets compromised as a result.

If you’re using a 16:9 screen and watching a 2.40:1 movie, there are Letterbox Bars at the top and bottom, which can be visually distracting. The Envy provides an option to automatically move the entire image either up or down, eliminating one of those bars, which definitely helps things look better.

But if you’re using a ‘Cinemascope’ type screen, with the same wide Aspect Ratio that is used for blockbusters in a commercial movie theater, this is where the Envy becomes invaluable. It will automatically detect the incoming Aspect Ratio, and adjust it so that it always fills the full height of your screen. Without an Envy, you would have to physically and manually zoom the Projector’s lens, but with the Envy, it happens automatically after seeing the change for several seconds straight. This feature really comes in handy when watching movies where the Aspect Ratio changes during the same movie – Christopher Nolan’s movies in particular use this a lot. Tenet is a great example where the Aspect Ratio varies between 16:9 and 2.20:1The Envy adjusted to these changes instantly so that the movie maximally filled the screen from start to finish.

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