Enjoying a premium, full-featured Ultra High Definition in-home experience has been simplified for consumers as the UHD Alliance (UHDA), the inter-industry group charged with fostering the Ultra HD ecosystem and promoting the benefits of Ultra HD entertainment technology, today unveiled a consumer-facing logo to identify devices, content and services capable of delivering a premium experience […]
Media and entertainment technologist Technicolor and consumer lifestyle specialist Royal Philips are to merge their ongoing delivery roadmaps for HDR solutions, including content creation tools, encoding and decoding software and implementation support. As a result of this collaboration, Technicolor and Philips will offer a best-in-class proposition to the market that allows HDR delivery, with full […]
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens this week in Las Vegas, and the received wisdom is that the show will be dominated by larger Ultra-HD TV screen sizes from the major display manufacturers, but different to CES 2015 in that they will all be capable of handling 10-bit depth pixels and thus – at last […]
At CES 2014, streaming platform specialist Roku unveiled Roku TV, a smart TV platform licensed to TV OEMs, with the goal of providing its TV partners with a cost-effective solution to build the best Smart TVs in the industry using the Roku OS. Now, with approximately 8 per cent smart TV market share in the […]
UAE-based telco Etisalat is partnering with Huawei to introduce the Middle East and Africa region’s first Ultra HD 4K IPTV service which will be available exclusively for its eLife customers starting in the first quarter of 2016. Rashed Al Abbar, Vice President of Consumer Product Innovation at Etisalat, said the telco was committed to bringing […]
To coincide with the availability of Ultra HD Blu-ray players in the marketplace in early 2016, Warner Bros. Home Entertainment will be offering four titles on Ultra HD Blu-ray at initial launch showcasing 4K Ultra HD resolution with High Dynamic Range (HDR), offering consumers a sharper, brighter and more colourful home entertainment viewing experience than […]
All 4, the free on-demand digital service from UK pubcaster Channel 4, is now available on Amazon Fire TV in the UK. The All 4 app is supported on the all-new Amazon Fire TV and is coming soon to Fire TV Stick, giving users free and on-demand access to a wide selection of programmes from […]
BT TV is claiming a UK first following the announcement that it is to offer Netflix in Ultra HD. BT TV customers will be able to view some of the world’s biggest TV shows via the new Ultra HD YouView+ set-top box and adding Netflix’s Ultra HD plan for £8.99 (€12.33) a month. BT TV […]
The continued roll-out of 4K/UHD services has received a boost following the announcement of an updated royalty rate structure by independent licensing administrator HEVC Advance, following active engagement with market participants across the industry. The updates support accelerated adoption of HEVC in the marketplace for the benefit of both industry and consumers. “After our initial […]
Ultra HD (4K) TVs are expected to make up 23.7 per cent of LCD TV shipments in 2016, up 9.3pp on year. Because of the increase, demand for LEDs used in TV backlighting applications will rise and approximately 20-30 per cent more LEDs will be used in 4K TVs over Full HD units, according to […]