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posted by martyb on Sunday April 08 2018, @11:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the progress++ dept.

Ultra HD group outlines next generation of 4K TV broadcasts

The concept of 4K TV broadcasting is only just getting off the ground, but its overseers are already planning for what comes next. The Ultra HD Forum has published its first "Phase B" guidelines detailing what companies should aim for with future 4K broadcast tech. Not surprisingly, high frame rates should play a major role -- the group is hoping for 100FPS and 120FPS video (depending on the region) with a fallback for 60FPS. It's also pushing for dynamic HDR video through formats like Dolby Vision and SL-HDR, while Dolby AC-4 and MPEG-H would provide audio that could adapt from elaborate 3D sound setups to a plain set of headphones.

PDF for Revision 1.0 of the Ultra HD Forum Phase B Guidelines:

The Phase B technologies were carefully selected to help service operators plan for next generation UHD services. In August 2017, the Ultra HD Forum conducted a Service Operator Survey with the goal of learning about up-and-coming UHD technologies that have captured the interest of service operators. The survey results served as a guide to the Ultra HD Forum in drafting this document.

This version of the UHD Phase B Guidelines is a preliminary look at these important UHD technologies. The goal of this version is to introduce and de-mystify the technologies and provide information to operators that are considering incorporating one or more of these advanced features into their UHD services.

Also at MyBroadband.


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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday April 09 2018, @01:50AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday April 09 2018, @01:50AM (#664121)

    I used to watch DVDs on a computer with a VGA monitor long before "HD" television. When I saw the earlier tube-based HD TVs with HD programming, it hardly seemed like a big deal. The shift from analog signals to digital was what made the bigger difference, even on old analog TVs. Point is there is a lot of hype, and "HD" doesn't really give them as much as people think it does.

    Of course it is all fancy CGI with no content these days. Right now, I'd almost kill for some intelligent movies that don't try and sell me smartphones or tablets.

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  • (Score: 1) by anubi on Monday April 09 2018, @06:49AM

    by anubi (2828) on Monday April 09 2018, @06:49AM (#664260) Journal

    For now, I am back to analog for re-encoding whatever to formats I have, namely, .mp3, .mp4.

    My bottleneck now is finding some way of re-coding something sent via HDMI. I never got a decent VGA to .MP4 "Hauppage" type board. I still run the old school NTSC digital encoders as a disk-based VCR. Anyone found a way to "DVR" an HDMI stream to .MP4? I don't really care if I lose resolution, as I don't really see all that well anymore, and anything too high res is just a waste.

    I'd much rather get 50 movies TF card, that I can play back through anything I find that has a browser and USB slot.

    And I definitely want to encode the stuff myself so I can edit crap out... especially nasty is the OTA stuff which is of such low quality that watching it without a video editor is like trying to eat a catfish without some way of deboning the thing.

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