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DTG Clears 4k Confusion

by Tom Allen

The UK’s Digital Television Group (DTG) has launched a new website called UHDReady.co.uk, with the aim of helping retailers to understand and sell the benefits of UltraHD technology. Users can look up TVs by …

Elemental Discusses UHD Content

by Tom Allen

Elemental and IneoQuest will hold a webcast at 8am PST, on the 9th December, about UltraHD content preparation. Topics to be covered will include common pitfalls; best practices for ensuring high-quality video processing and …

Panasonic Lowers Prices for Shopping Season

by Tom Allen

Earlier this year, Panasonic showed its complete line-up of UltraHD TVs at CES 2015, and announced more information about them in February (Panasonic Goes All-Out With UltraHD). At the time, we heard about an …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| LCD TVs| Panasonic| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 47

Finlux Wows With Low Cost

by Tom Allen

We visited a TV launch event in London this week, by Turkish brand Finlux. Finlux used to be a big brand in the Nordics, and really owned the TV market with Nokia. However, these …

High Resolution Without High Power Draw

by Tom Allen

Japan’s Kogakuin University, working with Fujitsu, has developed software that can scale smartphone video playback to UltraHD at 30fps, without consuming extra power. The new technology has been used in the ‘Xevic’ image processor …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Power Consumption| Smartphones| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 47

ICDM Works to Revise UltraHD Specifications

by Tom Allen

We were recently alerted to a move by the SID’s International Committee for Display Metrology (ICDM), which we heard is considering revising its Measurement Specifications for UltraHD TVs. The aim behind the move, we …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| SID Society| Standards| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 47

NRDC: UHD Will Add $1 Billion to US Energy Bills

by Tom Allen

In a new report, the USA’s National Resources Defence Council (NRDC) has said that UltraHD TVs use, on average, 30% more energy than HD (1920 x 1080) models. The Council estimates that this could …

DVB Approves UltraHD-HDR Requirements

by Tom Allen

The DVB Steering Board has approved the commercial requirements for the next phase of UltraHD TV, which will be known as ‘UHD-1 Phase 2’. UHD-1 Phase 1 was approved in 2014, and simply covered …

AOC Has Space-Saving 4k Solution

by Tom Allen

For users who want UltraHD resolution, but are limited on space, AOC has developed the U2477PWQ: a 23.6″ desktop monitor, with a PLS panel from Samsung Display. The Samsung panel has 178° viewing angles, …

Tags:Desktop Monitors| Large Display Monitor| MMD (AOC Philips)| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 46

Tveon Claims Perseus-Beating Bit-Rates

by Tom Allen

A Canadian company known as Tveon claims to have an encoding technology that beats even the impressive bit-rates of V-Nova’s Perseus (V-Nova’s Perseus Lowers UltraHD Bandwidth Requirements). Having been operating in ‘stealth mode’ for …

Tags:Codecs| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 22 - Issue 46

UltraHD Needs More Evidence of Productivity Gains

by Bob Raikes

As well as working on the issues of our newsletters, I spent quite a lot of time this week finalising the quarterly data that Meko (our publisher) provides on the European market for desktop …

Sony Shares First UHD & HDR Blu-Rays

by Tom Allen

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced the first films that it will release using the UltraHD Blu-ray format. They will include The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Hancock and Salt. Content will be rendered with “HDR”, …