For our eighth NAB Show, key demos in the Forum’s booth W4007 in West hall include:

• Hyper-Converged HDR Single Master Workflow Production
• Energy Efficient Enhanced Media Streaming: metadata insertion to enhance delivery and viewer experience and luminance adjustment to reduce energy usage.
• Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Next-Generation Codecs
• Pixel Value Reduction in HDR Content
• Viewing Condition Impacts on Display Energy Consumption
• Display Policy Decisions and Energy Impact
• A partner demo of Energy measurements with mass audiences.

The Forum thanks BBC, InterDigital, LGE, Ateme, Brightcove, CTOiC, Fairmile West, and ROSS Video for supporting these demos.

Our imminent Press Release with additional NAB 2024 announcements will follow.

•  Yasser Syed, the new President of the Ultra HD Forum, will lead a one-hour Town Hall meeting at 11:45 on Sunday, April 14th, on our mission and five 2024 technology focus areas. Forum members and past presidents Pat Griffis and Thierry Fautier will also participate. Our first academic alliance will be discussed with San Francisco State University
• Yuriy Reznik, VP of Research at Brightcove, and active Ultra HD Forum members will lead a half-hour panel discussion at 4 pm on Tuesday, April 16th, exploring Ultra HD’s expansion to screens across all device categories. He will be joined by Dolby, Fairmile West, and Qualcomm to discuss what we should do to prepare for a UHD-everywhere world.

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 more about and download our initial deliverable, which is now a candidate technical specification at DASH-IF.