This month, Fraunhofer HHI announced the H.266 Video Codec VVC. The new codec improves on H.265 by drastically reducing data usage while maintaining quality and support for high resolutions. Fraunhofer HHI dedicated several years of research and development to the new H.266 video codec. All of that hard work seems to …
Read More »Blu-ray disc association begins to license Ultra HD Blu-ray technology
The Blu-ray disc association on Wednesday announced that it plans to begin licensing its Ultra HD Blu-ray format on the 24th of August. The set of technologies will allow makers of players, receivers and other electronics as well as designers of various audio/video (AV) processors to create hardware compatible with Ultra …
Read More »Samsung to release Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player this year
Samsung Electronics has confirmed plans to release an Ultra HD Blu-ray disc player this week. The new company did not reveal any details, but reaffirmed that leading makers of electronics are on track with devices that will playback 4K video later this year. Yonhap News reports that a representative of …
Read More »Ultra HD Blu-ray players to cost two-three times more than BD players – Panasonic
After Blu-ray disc association this week finalized the Ultra HD Blu-ray specifications, industry watchers believe that the new players and discs will show up on the market by the end of the year. Panasonic expects new UHD BD hardware to cost two or three times higher compared to current players initially, whereas …
Read More »BDA finalizes Ultra HD Blu-ray spec: hardware to emerge this holiday season
The Blu-ray disc association (BDA) this week said it had completed development of the Ultra HD Blu-ray specification and released the new logo. The upcoming technology will enable delivery of video content in up to 3840*2160 resolution using optical discs. The first Ultra HD Blu-ray (UHD BD) movies and players …
Read More »CyberLink unveils world’s first hardware-accelerated 4K Ultra-HD player
CyberLink, a leading developer of multimedia software, has introduced the industry’s first media player that can take advantage of hardware acceleration capabilities of ultra-high-definition video decoding found in the latest hardware, such as microprocessors and graphics processing units. The CyberLink PowerDVD 15 is the world’s first software player that supports …
Read More »BDA to announce Ultra HD Blu-ray standard next quarter – report
The Blu-ray disc association (BDA) has been working on a new BD specification that supports ultra-high-definition (UHD) 4K resolution for about a year now. Apparently, the organization is on-track with formal announcement of Ultra HD Blu-ray disc standard in the second quarter of 2015, according to a media report. The …
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