UK broadcasters will move a step closer to being able to launch High Dynamic Range (HDR) services next week if the DVB’s Steering Board, as expected, approves an HDR content delivery specification.

The DVB’s Technical Module committee will put forward a draft proposal from its AVC sub-group that recommends two options for encoding HDR bit streams: Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG) and Perceptual Quantisation (PQ).

The Steering Board meeting takes place on 17 November.

The ITU’s BT.2100 standard for HDR programme making and programme exchange, announced in July, also recommends PQ and HLG.