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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:01PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 09 2018, @01:01PM (#664384)

    I find 480p content no longer watchable.

    Is it because of the material, or is it because your TV does a shitty job of displaying it? There's little incentive to make SD content look good when they want you to buy all your content again in HD.

  • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Wednesday April 11 2018, @03:02AM

    by toddestan (4982) on Wednesday April 11 2018, @03:02AM (#665209)

    It could easily be the latter as I've seen plenty of modern TVs that do a pretty shit job of handling low resolution content, or anything coming in the analog input. I hooked up a Super Nintendo to a modern TV and it looked simply awful. At first I just dismissed as myself being too used to modern graphics and remembering things through some rose-colored glasses. But even though it was a long time since I played it - it didn't seem like the graphics were that bad. Finally I moved the SNES over to the analog SD tube TV I still have, and the difference was night and day - now that's what I remember it looking like! While the VCR and VHS tapes are long gone, I would suspect they too would look way better on the old CRT than the LCD.

    Even so, if you can't watch something simply because it's 480P then I would say the content was probably shit anyway. If it was any good after a while you wouldn't even notice it's 480P, or in B&W for that matter.