Canadian multimedia company Bell is raising the 4K stakes by confirming that its Fibe TV customers in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and Québec City can now purchase Bell’s new 4K Whole Home PVR, which it describes as the most advanced 4K PVR available today. The new Fibe TV 4K Whole Home PVR is the smallest available […]
A senior representative of US consumer body Consumer Reports has questioned the need for television manufacturers to showcase 8K sets at the recent CES 2016 show in Las Vegas at a time when industry has taken great strides in raising public awareness of 4K/UHD. Writing on consumerreports.org, Glenn Derene, Director of Content Development, noted that […]
Last week at the Las Vegas CES show Panasonic unveiled an impressive addition to its Ultra-HD line-up of 4K models, a LCD unit (branded the DX900 model) described as the world’s first ‘Ultra HD Premium’ displays. The units will be available in 58” and 65” versions. Not to be undone, Samsung and LG also cite […]
With its first live over-the-air broadcast of 4K Ultra HD TV with high dynamic range (HDR) using the new ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard, digital television pioneer LG Electronics (LG) is ushering in the era of next-generation television broadcasting at CES 2016. The landmark broadcast, from Las Vegas station KHMP-TV’s transmitter on Nevada’s Black Mountain, is […]
Noting CES 2016 announcements that Samsung, LG, Sony and Panasonic TVs will all be adopting High Dynamic Range (HDR), Paolo Pescatore, Director, Multiplay and Media at CCS Insight, has suggested that there is still a distinct lack of 4K content on the market and has called on content and media owners to support HDR. “Unsurprisingly […]
A European consumer survey examining 4K consumer adoption and preferences revealed by Parks Associates at CES 2016 suggests that some 17 per cent of broadband households in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain are planning to buy a flat-panel TV in the next 12 months and over 50 per cent consider 4K an important or […]
Dish Network issued a slew of high-profile press releases late in the evening of January 5th – timed to maximise their impact for the CES show in Las Vegas. The headlines are: • A new DVR, its ‘Hopper 3’ with 16 separate tuners, and 4K content that it can feed to the rest of the […]
At CES 2016 Sony Electronics has unveiled its newest line-up of Ultra HD televisions, the XBR-X930D/XBR-X940D and the XBR-X850D series, built to support the highest standard in picture quality with HDR (High Dynamic Range) compatibility and unique backlighting technologies in an ultra-thin design. HDR reproduces a greater dynamic range of luminosity or brightness levels, bringing […]
Media and entertainment technologist Technicolor has confirmed that a growing number of leading TV and STB System-on-Chip (SoC) manufacturers are integrating Technicolor’s High Dynamic Range (HDR) Delivery Solution into their offerings, including: Marvell, MSTAR, Sigma and STMicroelectronics. The news paves the way for consumer electronics manufacturers to integrate Technicolor’s suite of HDR enhancement technologies into […]
LG Electronics (LG) has agreed key partnerships with premier technology companies and content providers to offer consumers more high-quality 4K HDR (high dynamic range) content. LG’s new OLED TVs and Super UHD TVs in 2016 are designed to support the current industry-standard HDR formats such as HDR10 and Dolby Vision. LG, Dolby and Netflix collaborated […]