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 […]
Dolby Laboratories, MGM, and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, have announced plans to deliver new release and catalogue titles mastered in Dolby Vision, the high-dynamic-range (HDR) format and playback solution, to home entertainment distribution partners this year. “With 4K UHD content becoming more prevalent, we are excited to provide consumers an elevated home-viewing experience and showcase our […]
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 […]
Ateme has been selected by MCS TV (Altice Group), the leading independent French TV channel dedicated to sports, to power its new 4K-UHD channel. Initially, it will be launched in France on cable and optical fiber networks, before being exported abroad in the coming months. In another global first for Ateme, the agreement demonstrates the […]
NAGRA, a digital TV division of the Kudelski Group and provider of content protection and multiscreen television solutions, has unveiled ‘intuiTV’, a new ‘all-in-one’ TV experience at the 2016 CES in Las Vegas. intuiTV delivers the best of television and Internet TV to pay-TV subscribers through an immersive viewing experience in 4K Ultra HD and […]
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 […]