February 2013
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“I hope you see 4K is not the future, it's now and Sony is leading the way” Kazuo Hirai
3DZ TILE FORMAT SHOWCASED
At CES Sisvel Technology demonstrated how the 3DZ Tile Format revolutionises 3D broadcasting, saving bandwidth and costs for broadcasters – while providing a glasses-free user experience. 3DZ Tile Format is a
technology that enhances the performance of autostereoscopic displays. This is the latest extension of the Tile Format, which already offers users better definition than existing solutions, is backward compatible with 2D High Definition TV sets and offers significant advantages to broadcasters by using a single bandwidth-efficient stream. The 3DZ Tile Format has been
designed to simplify and to improve the performance of ‘glasses-free’ 3D televisions. The current 3D devices require the generation of a large number of intermediate images or ‘views’ sent to a special TV panel. In order to generate the intermediate views; the TV set needs a depth map, namely a numeric representation of the depth of the scene. Sisvel Technology also
showed its Cropping Rectangle technology. This enables broadcasters to transmit 3D programmes that can be viewed stereoscopically on 3D television sets and simultaneously in 2D format on full HD television sets without the need for simulcasting.
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TVBEurope 13 News & Analysis Ultra-HD, ultra-thin, ultra-smart
Your next TV won't just be smart but intelligent; you can put it on any wall and it will be at least 4K. Adrian Penningtonreports on trends from last month’s CES in Las Vegas
SAMSUNG, Haier, Changhong and Westinghouse were among a dozen exhibitors presenting Ultra-HD models on the CES showfloor although with prices from £15,000 such screens are not expected to be in huge demand short term. The Consumer Electronics
Association predicts 25,000 Ultra-HD sets may be sold into the US market in 2013, only rising to 1.5 million or 4% of the US market by 2016. Futuresource predicts a comparative base of 123,000 sets in UK homes by 2016. “The bigger story is that the
trend toward higher pixel density is happening on all screens which has huge implications for the demand for hi-res content streamed over the web,” noted Shawn Dubravac, chief economist and senior director of Research at the CEA. Sony's new Xperia Z smartphone, for example, sports a full 1080p screen and Panasonic unveiled a prototype 4K 20-inch tablet with digital stylus pitched at digital photo editing but equally handy for viewing 4K movies, animation or for pre-viz. Nonetheless, the overall trend is for larger screens and appears
Samsung and China's HiSense made a splash by exhibiting Ultra-HD sets with 110in images
to be a worldwide phenomenon. In the US, sales of TVs of 20 inches or less in size have started to drop off as tablets arrive. Globally, the reverse is happening at the top end, where 60-inch screen sizes are on the rise.
Samsung and China's HiSense made a splash by exhibiting Ultra-HD sets with 110in images and Sharp – whose entire business is concentrated on growing demand for sets 60 inches and higher – resubmitted the 33-megapixel 85-inch screen showing Super Hi-Vision content it debuted in 2012. Both Panasonic and Sony
were showing prototype 4K camcorders with very few technical specs – a sign that they
BK Yoon, Samsung's CE president, said TV is evolving into a product that will “listen, see and do what you want without ever touching the remote control”
want to boost the amount of native 4K content available to new Ultra-HD screens.
4K to the home Related, all Ultra-HD TVs are boasting an up-scaling ability. Toshiba's range, available in 58-, 65- and 84-inch LED models, incorporate a CEVO 4K Engine, which powers the upscaling of HD content. To demonstrate what native 4K would look like on its displays, it was showing 4K content shot with a Red Epic and played back from the soon-to-be- released, £1000 RedRay 4K Cinema Player. Sony previewed its own 4K media player which, in a smoke and mirrors announcement,
looks as if it will be bundled with sales of its 4K sets and populated with Sony Pictures Entertainment movies shot at 4K such as The Amazing Spider-Man and old movies remastered at the resolution (Lawrence of Arabia). Sony said it was forming the
world's first 4K content distribution service to the home and noted that while the current Blu-ray standard didn't support 4K the media's blueprint included provision to carry data densities greater than 4K. It would make sense if Sony among others pushed for a quick upward revision of the Blu-ray specs. Separately it was touting a 1 Terabyte storage block that would sit
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