Amazon Instant Video has revealed it is working with the world’s leading consumer electronics companies, top Hollywood studios and TV programmers, including Samsung, Warner Bros, Lionsgate, 20th Century Fox, Discovery and others to offer customers a premium 4K Ultra HD experience. The announcement continues Amazon’s commitment to 4K. In December 2013, Amazon Studios announced that […]
In the presence of an eager press corps at CES in Las Vegas, LG revealed that its broad new 2014 line of Ultra HD TVs with LG’s proprietary webOS Smart TV platform will support content streaming in Ultra HD 4K from Internet television network Netflix. In total, 12 new models comprise LG’s 2014 Ultra HD […]
Qualcomm’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, has revealed the Qualcomm Snapdragon 802 processor, the first fully integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) designed for next-generation Smart TVs, smart set-top boxes and smart digital media adapters. The Snapdragon 802 processor is designed to power the latest smart TV experiences at Ultra HD resolution, including seamless decoding of Ultra HD video […]
Sony Electronics has taken another step forward in the evolution of 4K Ultra HD home entertainment with the addition of critical content options and a range of new 4K Ultra HD TVs for every viewer. To complement the expanding library of its Video Unlimited 4K download service, Sony’s 2014 4K Ultra HD TV line-up is […]
Harmonic, the worldwide player in video delivery infrastructure, will power multiple end-to-end transmission demonstrations of 4K Ultra HD during 2014 CES International, Jan. 7-10, in Las Vegas. Harmonic will showcase the amazing picture quality of the new format on Ultra HD TVs and set-top boxes (STBs) with its partners, industry leaders Broadcom Corporation, Sigma Designs, […]
In light of swift reductions in pricing, analytics firm IHS has boosted its forecast for Ultra-HD liquid-crystal display (LCD) television sets. IHS now predicts 38.5 million Ultra-HD LCD TV sets will ship in 2018, up from 1.5 million in 2013, according to the TV Systems Intelligence Service at IHS. Shipments will fly up more than […]
Digital age photography and consumer electronics specialist Polaroid is showing what it describes as a superior quality, affordable new line of televisions at CES 2014. Polaroid will début a 50” Smart TV that is Roku Ready, as well as a 50” Ultra HD 4K Television. According to Polaroid, the sets will provide consumers with unparalleled […]
At the 2014 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Thomson Video Networks and MStar Semiconductor will demonstrate advanced delivery of over-the-top (OTT) content to connected TVs via the emerging High-Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard. The demonstration will highlight the interoperability of Thomson Video Networks’ award-winning ViBE VS7000 multi-screen encoding/transcoding platform with MStar’s 4K […]
NanoTech Entertainment, a pioneer in bringing the 4K Ultra HD experience to consumers and businesses, has announced a worldwide distribution agreement with Epic Eye, the parent company of Moving Murals, a dynamic art solution. Under the agreement, UltraFlix, NanoTech’s streaming 4K Ultra HD service, has been granted 4K rights to distribute Moving Murals’ current gallery […]
Sony and Panasonic are scrapping their OLED display TV panel joint-venture “alliance”, blaming technical challenges and production costs. The pair will independently focus on building 4K/Ultra-HD LCD panels. Both companies have faced heavy losses within their TV divisions, and local reports quote spokesmen for both businesses saying that LCD-based 4K displays show greater promise. The […]