DirecTV To Present Masters Golf Tournament In 4K With HDR
AT&T/DirecTV announced this week that it will for the first time televise the Master’s Golf Tournment in 4K Ultra HD with High Dynamic Range (HDR). As with prior HDR satcasts, DirecTV has selected Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG), which does not require metadata and is optimized for…
Sling TV Gets NBA League Pass
Satellite pay-TV provider Dish announced Thursday that its live over-the-top (OTT) skinny bundle service Sling TV became the first streaming TV provider to offer the NBA League Pass access to live out-of-market games. For $29 a month extra, Sling TV is offering the NBA’s service…
ANTOP Invites Lovers To Cut The Cord With A Frame/Antenna
Over-the-air TV antenna solutions manufacturer, ANTOP Antenna, invited lovers to cut the cord on this Valentine’s Day. ANTOP suggests giving that certain someone its new AT-204B photo frame/HDTV digital indoor antenna combo that makes it simple to cut-the-cord to a cable or satellite service,…
4K Ultra HD Olympics Coverage Pays Viewers HDR Dividends
In case you don’t have access to any of the 4K/HDR coverage from the on-going Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea, the 24-hour-delayed telecasts to date have earned two big thumbs up from the HD Guru editors. Our exposure to the coverage includes the…
DirecTV To Present Interactive Winter Olympics Including 4K/HDR
Not to be out done by Comcast or Dish, AT&T’s DirecTV satellite TV service revealed that it too has a slate of tools and channels it will be leveraging to help its subscribers engage in all the Winter Olympics action from PyeongChang, South Korkea…
Dish To Offer Extensive Winter Olympics Viewing Tools, 4K Coverage
Dish’s Sports Bar Mode Channel for the upcoming Winter Olympics coverage. Dish Network revealed Wednesday that it is among a select group of pay-TV services (including Comcast Xfinity) that will be offering extensive Winter Olympic Games coverage from PyeongChang, South Korea, through new features and…
BDA: Ultra HD Blu-ray Continues To Advance In HDR World
BDA educational video on Ultra HD Blu-ray Although the hype and promotion is significantly quieter than it was for other new physical media formats before it, Ultra HD Blu-ray continues to build momentum among early 4K Ultra HDTV adopters and audio and video picture quality…
DirecTV Presents NHL 4K Game With Live HDR, But Was Anyone Watching?
UPDATE! DirecTV said Monday that its 4K Ultra HD telecasts with high dynamic range (HDR) are using the Hybrid Log-Gamma (HLG) HDR profile, which will be supported by select TV brands and models this year (though some sets are still awaiting firmware updates). The…
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