With companies at CES showing off 8K displays it seems that the standards body for UHD felt the need to actually get around to setting a standard for what constitutes a 4K display. Like USB.org or the IEEE, the UHD Alliance is a body which is supposed to set standards on the various devices we buy so we can know the minimum specifications of the product, unfortunately the UHD Alliance seems to suffer from input lag. As you would expect, a resolution of 3840 x 2160 is required to bear the "Ultra HD Premium" logo, as well as 10-bit colour and minimum support for colour representation and dynamic range specifications. The standard applies to both manufacturers and content providers such as Netflix. You can read more about this slightly tardy standard over at The Register.
"The UHD Alliance has delivered its promised spec setting down minimum standards for what constitutes 4K. While 4K of some kind has been around for a decade, it was only in 2015 that the industry decided standards were needed."
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About time they got their
About time they got their standard finalized. Looks like a 4K OLED TV with proper HDR and wider color gamut is shaping up as a good purchase in 3-5 years. Should give plenty of time for actual content to be produced that fully supports the new standard.
Do not see how this is going
Do not see how this is going to make OLEDs cheaper and only this matters.
What? Rec.2020 has been
What? Rec.2020 has been around for years. Is this just the first time people are advertizing it?
Is this UHD Alliance goimg to have a different standard than the ITU?
The same thing happened with
The same thing happened with WiFi … 802.11n was in use long before the standard was finally ratified.