CES 2016 catch all -

I was looking at my 4K youtube videos and 36mp stills on Flickr on the 5K 27" iMac at the Apple store and it did not look any better than on my 4K 28" monitors with my Mac Pro or PC. I think 5K monitors need to be at least 30". I like to use my 50" 4K Samsung with my PC and Windows 10 in 4096x2160 resolution.
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A USA Today piece on 4K programming, 4K Blu-Ray.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/01/01/more-4k-tv-programming-finally-here-2016/78087454/

And a piece on units shipped (IMO, the USA article is wrong on the timeline count of the UHD sets in the US ... the desired quantity will be here in 2017 rather than in 2019)

http://hdguru.com/ihs-6m-4k-ultra-hdtvs-shipped-in-north-america-in-2015/

The way the US totals shape out (approximate and the predicted totals)

2014 - 2M
2015 - 8M
2016 - 22MM
2017 - 46MM

The end of 2017 roughly achieves the 35% market penetration in US households. But it's an upscale 35%, so - to get back to the USA Today - they're probably correct in that the beginning of the 2016-17 TV season will see a major upward shift in 4K programming. And the 2016-17 TV season is half a year away.
 
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This came out in December -

UHD ALLIANCE COMPLETES PREMIUM SPECIFICATIONS FOR ULTRA HD DISPLAYS, CONTENT AND DISTRIBUTION

— UHDA Information Agreement Available to Interested Companies —

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8, 2015 – The UHD Alliance (UHDA), the inter-industry group charged with fostering an ecosystem that fully realizes and promotes the consumer benefits of Ultra HD entertainment technology, announced today the completion of premium specifications for 4K Ultra HD displays, content and distribution.


Composed of the leading film studios, consumer electronics manufacturers, content distributors and technology companies, the UHDA will announce details of the new specifications and unveil a consumer-facing certification logo to identify products that can deliver the ultimate UHD experience at CES® 2016.


The UHDA’s specifications cover a combination of key features and consumer-tested benchmarks that will usher in a new era of in-home entertainment. The specification outlines performance metrics related to resolution, high dynamic range, and wide color gamut, as well as recommendations for immersive audio, among others. Advances in resolution, brightness, contrast, color and audio will enable certified displays and content to replicate the richness of life’s sights and sounds and allow in-home viewers to more fully and accurately experience the content creator’s vision.


Companies interested in the UHDA specification and the associated licensing terms can obtain a copy of the UHDA Information Agreement by going through: http://www.uhdalliance.org/contact-us/.


UHDA leadership and board members will be in attendance at the UHDA’s CES media briefing at 7 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2016, in Surf Ballroom D at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino, immediately following CES Unveiled.


Media interested in attending the UHDA press event should email their details to press@uhdalliance.org.
 
I personally don't see the point of HDR.

Most TV's now have options of Stranded, Dynamic and Theater (just to name a few). I always have my TV on Sanded for normal viewing and Theater for movies. There are certain shows and movies that look terrible unless you change them!
Like in Theater for example. It's nowhere near as obvious in movies that they are standing in front of a green screen if you have it on Theater (to my eyes anyway).
But Dynamic, it just way over does color.

I don't see any point for this HDR unless you want to have it look like your TV is a window, or a fish tank (or maybe watch Fireworks).
If everyone on here wanted it to look like that, then they would buy their video camera and leave all the settings on what the camera came with.
 
Canon will be showing their 8K camera, as per Canon's own PR release. It's the same camera as from last fall.
 
I'm hoping there will be some products with the new UBS-C connector announced this week, specifically RAID storage solutions.

Thunderboldt never really caught on outside of the Apple ecosystem, even though it was developed by Intel. Apparently USB 3 is inadequate for high-speed RAID arrays. So I'm hoping LaCie, G-Technology, Pegasus, OWC and others upgrade their RAID enclosures with the new USB-C port which is supposed to rival Thunderboldt.
 
USB Type C is the bee's knees. Data and power by one cable, that's reversible.

I am looking forward to it becoming the only jack on laptops and even camcorders --- more than one jack on each device would be nice, though, unlike the Macbook.

Despite it being ready for prime time since September 2014, though, it has yet to saturate the market. At CES I've only heard of a few devices from Acer and a portable hard drive from Samsung.
 
CES related? Kind of.

Warner Brothers are suing a Chinese firm (makes of the HD Fury line of products) for making a $200 dongle that allows (lossless?) copying of the DCI protected 4K material.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...es-hd-fury-over-boxes-that-can-copy-4k-video/

And Yahoo is dropping Yahoo Screen as a separate destination and an app. The company has allegedly lost over $40M on its original ("Open Space") and semi-original (several episodes of "Community") programming. Included in that loss was its streaming of an NFL game, for which it paid around $10M.
 
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I watched that game, ha.
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I watched about 10 minutes of "Open Spaces" because I wanted to see Milana Vayntrub (the girl from those ATT commercials). It was awful. Milana's own YouTube show was much funnier, not to mention cheaper.
 
My friend knows her from UCB...I think she was in advanced though when he was in 101 or 201.
 
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