4K, 1080 TV Bargains Await Holidays
The industry may be doing a little extra belt tightening when it comes to overall HD television sales for the upcoming 2015 holiday shopping season, but you can expect to see the usual doorbuster specials and more 4K Ultra HDTV holiday packages this season, industry…
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 Expands HDR Capable 4K TVs
Sony is bringing high dynamic range (HDR) capability to more models in its 2015 4K Ultra HD LED LCD TV line, the company said Tuesday. In addition to the previously announced 65-inch X930C ($3,798) and 75-inch X940C ($6,998) models, Sony said that HDR compatibility will…
HDR Still Not Happening At Retail
4K Ultra HDTVs capable of delivering High Dynamic Range (HDR) may be one of the hottest new technologies on the television market this year, but don’t be surprised if you don’t hear anything about it on retail sales floors, so far. Even though some of the latest and…
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…
4K Ultra HDTV Deals Lined Up For Amazon ‘Prime Day’
Amazon will kick off its much-hyped Prime Day event for members of its Prime subscriber program starting at 3 a.m. EST/midnight PT tonight — July 15th — including a number of TV specials. The event, which promises to rival promotions offered on Black Friday, will include “thousands…
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…
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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