ITU Guidance for HDR Television Production

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) provides operational practices to ensure optimal and consistent use of HDR in television production, focusing on the Perceptual Quantization (PQ) and Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) methods as specified in Recommendation ITU-R BT.2100.

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