High dynamic range (HDR) features will be on some HD television sets and help boost 4K’s momentum. ABI Research forecasts that HDR TV shipments will grow at a 41 per cent CAGR and reach 245 million units in 2022. 8K TV sets are still years away from permeating the global market, with market hype currently […]
4K TV sales are poised to grow by a further 38 per cent in 2017 to account for more than a third of the worldwide TV market, according to latest projections from Futuresource Consulting. This comes in the wake of a strong performance in 2016 when 4K surpassed 25 per cent of total TV sales, […]
Satellite operator SES and LG Electronics are to demonstrate OLED TV’s 4K High Frame Rate (HFR) broadcast at the tenth SES Industry Days conference in Luxembourg on May 16th and May 17th. The 4K HFR content will be transmitted live via an ASTRA satellite at 19.2 degrees East and displayed on LG’s OLED TV, using […]
TCL, one of the world’s largest and America’s fastest-growing television brand, has revealed pricing and availability of its 4K HDR TCL Roku TV models. The new US portfolio, shown for the first time at the 2017 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January, includes two premium lines of TCL TVs that deliver Dolby Vision HDR […]
The Basque Country-based cable operator Euskaltel is launching a new 4K set-top-box this month with Android technology for current and new clients. The company is also upgrading its network with the deployment of DOCSIS 3.1 covering 24 per cent of its network, with plans to surpass 40 per cent in June. Euskaltel currently has 275,000 […]
The Ultra HD Forum, the global organisation defining industry best practices for the introduction of technologies to facilitate the ultra-high-definition (UHD) viewing experience, has released the UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3 including a new forensic watermarking chapter. This chapter is the result of the collaboration between leading watermarking technologies providers. In addition to an overview […]
SES has been supplying test Ultra-HD transmissions over the US for some months. Vivicast Media is its partner, and Vivicast used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce its first contracts, with a pair of multichannel video programming distributors to supply a bouquet of ten UHD channels. Marquette-Adams of Oxford, Wisconsin and Highlands Cable […]
Sky Sports will show Test cricket in Ultra HD this summer when England take on South Africa in their Test series across July and August. In a world first for Test cricket, Sky Q customers in the UK and Ireland can look forward to every ball of the four-match series in Ultra HD. The four […]
Samsung Electronics and Amazon Video are introducing HDR10+, an updated open standard that leverages dynamic metadata to produce enhanced contrast and colours on an expanded range of televisions. According to the pair, HDR10+ elevates the HDR10 open standard with the addition of Dynamic Tone Mapping. The current HDR10 standard utilises static metadata that does not […]
Trade mag Large Display Monitor (LDM) says that Samsung is building new double-width LCD panels which would have an aspect ratio of 32:9 and an overall resolution of 3840 x 1080. The devices are said to be coming to market this autumn, from September 2017, and are aimed at gamers. The ‘double width’, says LDM, […]