Where lucky to have had Maria Rua Aguete present the latest from OMDIA during our NAB session.

Ultra HD Forum Returns to NAB with More Demos, New Industry Initiatives, and Updated Guidelines

The Ultra HD Forum comes to Vegas with seven demos, including VVC, ATSC, NGA, ST 2110, and SDR-to-HDR interoperability based on new industry initiatives, two conference sessions, and an updated service tracker with over 312 Ultra HD Services worldwide.

Issue 2 of our newsletter is out with three articles on the UEFA 2020 football coverage in UHD. TF1’s work on HDR – SDR conversion, KPN’s analysis of HDR user experience, and our UHD coverage analysis.

Catch up with our 2021 projects here.
Hear about deployment success, preserving the experience across the delivery chain, NGA and interop. Also, our watermarking API for UHD content, ATSC 3.0 deployment in the USA and the facts of large live OTT UHD events in 2020.

The Ultra HD Forum is proud to launch its latest blog section, kicking off with a series of guest blogs from Yoeri Geutskens analysing the data in out Service Tracker.

Click on the button below to learn about and download our latest deliverable.

We’re proud to release the Fall 2021 update of our Guidelines including

• Objective Measurement and Analysis of the Quality of Tone Mapping
• the creation and distribution of live content, produced in UHD with HDR and Wide Color and then distributed via the Internet (OTT)
• Updated Annexes (ST 2110, AMWA) as well as a new Annex on the support of UHD by DVB-T2

The Ultra HD Forum Service Tracker focusses on services that are commercially available to consumers. B2B and event-based services only have sample data for now.

We estimate the number of consumers that can easily access a UHD service thanks to UHD device penetration data kindly supplied by IHS-Markit. Ultra HD Forum members collect this data, and the “Data Check” field reflects its reliability.

Note that the raw data is only available to members, so do check out membership options. Please let us know through our contact form if you see any errors or omissions.

UHD, Ultra-High Definition, Ultra High-Definition, 3840 x 2160, 4096 x 2160, … confused yet? Check out our latest blog by Sam Matheny