Things aren’t looking so rosy for Sony anymore, despite its initial successes in the 4K market. Although the Japanese firm established an early lead over its rivals in the first half of last year, Korean powerhouse Samsung has now emerged as the market leader for 4K TV shipments in North America, just weeks after achieving a similar feat in Europe. ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Netflix Expects Modest 4K TV Sales & UHD Content Availability in 2014
Just when you thought that this might be the year when we finally get to see a decent amount of 4K content hit our larger-than-life UHD screens, well, it’s time to think again. Earlier this month our hopes were dashed over the prospect of seeing 4K blu-rays hit the shelves, following their no-show at the CES in Las Vegas – ... Read More »
New 12-Bit Deep Colour Encoding Tech Announced For 4K Blu-ray
It’s all very well having these fancy new 4K OLED TVs and whatnot, but even with these jaw-dropping displays most kinds of media are held back by one huge problem – they’re still encoded with just 8 bits per colour channel, and that only amounts to around 16 million colors. That probably sounds like a lot – and indeed it ... Read More »
Paramount is 1st Movie Studio to End Film Release & Go Digital-Only
Who would’ve thought that Anchorman 2, of all movies, would signal the demise of film releases? Yes, you read that right. Film is coming to an end, though not in the literal sense. We’ll still have new movies to look forward to of course, but things will never be quite the same again. Over the weekend, it was reported in ... Read More »
TV Maker Loewe Gets Investment from Ex-Apple + B&O Chiefs
Germany’s high-end TV manufacturer Loewe has announced that new investors will be taking over the business, in a move that should secure the company for the foreseeable future. The investor’s consortium is made up of the Munich-based investment firm Panthera GmbH, as well as former Apple and Bang & Olufsen executives Constantin Sepmeier and Stefan Kalmund. The deal, which was ... Read More »