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 […]
LG Electronics will unveil ‘LG Super UHD’, a new premium line of 4K ultra HD TVs at CES in Las Vegas this week. Leading the company’s 2016 4K Ultra HD LCD/LED TV line-up, LG Super UHD TV will feature LG’s most advanced LCD/LED picture quality ever, with expanded colour capabilities, advanced picture and sound-enhancing features […]
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 […]