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…
New Apple TV Unveiled, But No Mention Of 4K
Apple still didn’t materialize a long-rumored iOS-based television set at a much-hyped press conference Wednesday, but the company didn’t take its eye off of the big screen. Instead it unveiled a next generation Apple TV set-top-box, bringing more iPhone-like functionality to the living-room screen, including greater…
LG webOS TVs Get Upgraded, DirecTV 4K Added
LG Electronics USA revealed Monday an expanded list of content partners for its webOS Smart TV platform, including access to streaming Full HD and 4K content from DirecTV without the need of extra boxes. LG also announced a free firmware update for 2014 webOS Smart…
CEA Defines An `HDR Display’, Awaits Definition For HDR
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) issued Thursday the industry definition for high dynamic range (HDR) compatible video displays, specifying base-line standard SMPTE BT 2084 Electo Optical Transfer Function (EOTF) and SMPTE BT 2086 metadata support. Now all we need is a definition for what HDR…
Hisense Unveils ULED Quantum-Dot 4K LED TV
Hisense USA used a Times Square press conference Wednesday to unveil its answer to Samsung’s SUHD 4K LED-LCD TV series in a ULED H10 nanocrystal-based (a.k.a. quantum dot) 4K Ultra HD LED LCD TV. The company’s new premium TV offers a curved screen, high dynamic…
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…
Amazon Launches First 4K Ultra HD HDR Streaming Title
Amazon jumped the gun on formal industry standardization efforts Wednesday by announcing that it is making 4K Ultra HD streaming content available with High Dynamic Range (HDR) metadata to U.S. Prime customers beginning immediately. Amazon said the HDR enhancement is being added to the debut…
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