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…
FCC Approves ATSC 3.0 Framework By 3-2 Vote
As was widely expected, the members of Republican-led Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted, 3 to 2, along party lines Thursday to approve a framework for the roll out of the nation’s next digital television broadcast platform, known as ATSC 3.0. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai called…
AT&T Gives DirecTV An Interface Lift, Looks To Mend Subscriber Losses
To curb the cord-cutting phenomenon and reverse recent TV subscriber attrition, AT&T is revamping and elevating its positioning of satellite TV service DirecTV and over-the-top live TV streaming service DirecTV Now. At the same time, the telco giant is giving DirecTV a new look…
IHS: HDR Is `The Biggest Improvement Coming To TV’
Global unit shipments of televisions supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR) are forecast to reach 12.2 million in 2017 and will continue to expand to 47.9 million in 2021, according to television market research conducted in the IHS Markit TV Design and Features Tracker for…
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