Roku Unveils 4K Ultra HD Streaming Player
Roku unveiled Tuesday its first Roku over-the-top (OTT) streaming video player supporting 4K UHD content. The Roku 4 player also includes the new Roku OS7 supporting new discovery features that provide access to more entertainment choices and an updated “Roku Feed” that now lets users…
TiVo Unveils Bolt Set-Top Box With 4K, Commercial Skipping
TiVo introduced this week a new 4K Ultra HD-ready DVR option for cable and over-the-air TV viewers who also want to integrate built-in standard and 4K streaming services. The new TiVo Bolt, which will replace the TiVo Roamio box, supports cable, OTA and over-the-top (OTT) …
Amazon’s New Fire TV Set-top Box Expands 4K UHD Content Possibilities
Just days after Apple unveiled the next version of its Apple TV, incorporating Siri voice control and other iPhone-like applications, Amazon introduced a trio of new Fire TV add-on smart media adapters, including one of the first external multimedia streaming adapters to support 4K Ultra…
Sony Pictures Reveals Plans To Support Dolby Vision Mastering
Dolby Laboratories and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) said Thursday that they have reached an agreement to use the new Dolby Vision mastering process for 4K Ultra HD content titles to be delivered by a variety of home entertainment distribution partners. The Dolby Vision mastering…
`Vidity’ 4K UHD Download System Licensing Begins
The Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) released licensing specifications Wednesday for “Vidity-branded” technology, that will make possible 4K Ultra HD and HD movie and TV program downloads for playback from in-home storage devices. The technology delivers high-quality images and sound and will extend to files…
Connector Solution Brings Support For Next Gen. Video
One of the sticking points in delivering next-generation video formats from mobile devices and PCs to displays received a new solution Monday. Lattice Semiconductor, a chip manufacturer which acquired Silicon Image, one of the leading developers of the HDMI interface, revealed Monday a pair…
HEVC Patent Pool Issues Its Bill
Manufacturers of 4K Ultra HDTVs, Ultra HD Blu-ray players, mobile devices, 4K Ultra HD software and other products using high efficiency video coding (HEVC) compression and decoding technology are about to be handed another bill. The HEVC Advance, which is a second patent pool that…
Industry Scrambles To Get HDR Content To Next-Gen TVs
The TV marketing buzz for 2015 has been all about adding high dynamic range (HDR) to the 4K Ultra HDTV experience. Industry leading set manufacturers, content producers and video distributors are all scrambling to prepare solutions for getting specially encoded HDR 4K Ultra HD streaming…
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