`2001: A Space Odyssey’ 4K Release Due Nov. 20th
A revised availability date of November 20th has been issued for the 50th Anniversary remastered release of Stanley Kubrick’s classic sci-fi adventure 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Kubrick/Arthur C. Clarke-developed landmark movie will be available for the first time in 4K Ultra HD resolution with high…
Google Announces Free 4K Movie Upgrades
Google is allowing users in the U.S. and Canada to upgrade SD and HD titles purchased through Google Play Movies to 4K free of charge. The company revealed the offer on its website Tuesday, in a post by Ben Serridge, Product Manager, Google Play Movies…
LG Display Reports Profit From OLED TV Panels In Q3
LG Display revealed in its third quarter financial statement Tuesday that its OLED TV panel business “has finally turned to profit” after five years of growth. The unit of South Korea’s LG conglomerate that supplies sister company LG Electronics and other manufacturers with LCD and…
Luminari LED TV Phosphor Goes For The Green
Televisions based on organic light emitting diodes (OLED) and quantum dots (QLED) might not be the only or even best ways of reaching a wide color gamut performance for long. Lumenari, a five-year-old company specializing in narrow-band green phosphor formulation called “Emerald” for LED back…
NAD Sends LG’s `Perfect Black’ OLED TV Claim To FTC
LG Electronics has come under fire once again from the National Advertising Division of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council for making claims in promotional materials that its OLED televisions achieve “perfect black” and have “infinite contrast.” The NAD said it has referred the advertising issue made…
Broadcasters Collaborate To Advance ATSC 3.0
Leading executives with U.S. TV station groups used the NAB Show in New York this week to pledge cooperation and commitment to a collaborative effort aimed at providing national ATSC 3.0 over-the-air broadcasts in the next several years. Stations aligned with Fox, NBCUniversal, Pearl TV,…
Sony Adds Long-Zoom DSC-HX99 4K Cyber-shot
Sony Electronics introduced Monday its Cyber-shot DSC-HX99 point-and-shoot camera featuring a 24-720mm extreme zoom range and compact camera body. The HX99 will ship in early November at a $449.99 suggested retail price and is positioned as the perfect travel camera behind inclusion of a Zeiss…
5 Stations Join ATSC 3.0 Phoenix Test Project
The next generation of over-the-air TV broadcasting continues its slow transition to the ATSC 3.0 standard with five stations joining the experimental Phoenix Model Market project. The FCC this week announced that it has granted requests from five commercial and public U.S. TV broadcasters in…
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