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Following the 4K Television Ecosystem

by Phillip Wright

After the 2015 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, it is clear that market movement toward 4k (UHD) television is continuing to advance. The 4k sets on view at …

Tags:Blu-ray Players| TVs (TV Sets)| UltraHD (4KTV)| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03

DisplayLink Pushes UltraHD over USB

by Bob Raikes

DisplayLink showed graphics over USB using an Android phoneDisplayLink was in a positive mood. The company’s “graphics over USB” technology has been widely adopted by PC vendors who are able to use the technology …

Tags:CES 2015| DisplayLink| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| USB| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Industry Stakeholders Form UHD Alliance

by Tom Allen

The formation of the UHD Alliance was announced the day before CES officially began. A collaboration between Hollywood studios, consumer electronics brands, post-production and technology companies, the Alliance aims to establish standards for UltraHD and higher …

Tags:CES 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03| Wide Colour Gamut (WCG)

Hisense ULED Wins Global Annual Display Technology Award

by Helen Vince

On Jan. 7, USA local time, the winner of the Annual Display Technology Award was unveiled at the world’s largest and finest consumer electronics show taking place now in Las Vegas, with the honor going to ULED, the …

Tags:Hisense| TV (Television)| UltraHD & 4K

UltraHD Readiness Increases Worldwide

by Vanessa Browning

52 countries have connection speeds capable of supporting UltraHD services (above 15Mbps), according to Akamai’s Q3 State of the Internet report. While this is down 2.8% QoQ, it is up 32% YoY. South Korea …

Tags:4k| broadband| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 04

SMPTE Kicks Off UltraHD Seminar in The UK

by Vanessa Browning

SMPTE, the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, has announced the launch of its 2015 Section Seminar series, with the topic ‘Navigating the Ultra High Definition (UHD) Ecosystem’. The seminars, which will take place …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SMPTE| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03

Quantum Materials to Increase QD Capacity to Two Metric Tons

by Vanessa Browning

Quantum Materials has announced that it is to increase production capacity to 2000 kilograms of quantum dots and nanoparticles per year in the second quarter of this year. The company said that it is …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Mobile Display Monitor| Quantum Dots| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 02

CEA Study says Viewers want 4K UHD, Smart TVs

by Vanessa Browning

While the television remains viewers’ primary means of accessing video content, the number of consumers watching video content via streaming (63 percent) is gaining on those who watch through a traditional service provider (68 …

Tags:Market Data| TV Viewing| UltraHD & 4K

Industry Insight: Four Tech Studies Debut at CEA’s Research Summit

by Helen Vince

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® unveiled four new studies to provide insights on growing consumer technology segments and adjacent markets at CEA’s Research Summit, held at the 2015 International CES® running January 6-9 in …

Tags:CE (Consumer Electronics) Data| OTT Video| UltraHD & 4K| Wearables

Sigma Launches UltraHD VP9/HEVC Chip

by Bob Raikes

The first topic that we discussed with Sigma Designs was HDR technology. Sigma was the first company to support Dolby Vision technology in its SoCs and both TCL and Philips have shown sets that …

Tags:CES 2015| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Sigma Designs| SOCs| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 22 - Issue 03

HDMI 2.0 Has Several Flavors so Be Careful

by Chris Chinnock

I bet most of you thought that when you had a device with HDMI 2.0 that it can support 4k at 60fps and included HDCP 2.2. It turns out that just like previous generations …

Tags:HDMI| Large Display Monitor| Lattice Semiconductor (Silicon Image)| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD & 4K| Vol 21 - Issue 50