Compounding the difficulty in setting the record straight is the obnoxious letter abbreviations for screen and video resolution. “HD” can mean 720p, 1080i, or 1080p. When buying a TV it’s becoming ...

Ultra High Definition is finally starting to take hold in the market with equipment prices that are beginning to drop into the price range for buyers of normal means and more content is starting to ...

Welcome to the vast world of TV acronyms! Let’s look at two very common terms that you will frequently run across when shopping for a new display: UHD and HDR. Yes, these terms both have “HD” in them, ...

Optical media discs might all look roughly the same on the outside, but it's what's on the inside that really counts.

[Update: Amazon finally launched its 4K UHD streaming service two months late on December 9th. For details on what the service has to offer, head here.] Samsung has announced a content deal with ...

The booth of 4K Garden at an expo for ultrahigh definition video industries in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, in May 2021. [Photo by Xu Jianmei/For China Daily] A string of Chinese video platforms are ...

China will ratchet up efforts to develop ultra-high-definition videos and mull a series of new policies to promote the high-quality development of the video industry, with a focus on enriching ...

Ask anyone who got stuck with a pile of useless HD DVDs back in 2008 what it’s like to pick the wrong dog in a tech fight, and they’ll tell you: It sucks. How were they supposed to know Blu-ray would ...

There’s a lot of interest in ultra-high definition (UHD) video, and the two codecs that drive it, HEVC and VP9. Over the past few months, a new UHD codec called Daala has also come to the fore. I ...

The term Ultra-High Definition - also known as Ultra HD or UHD - has been kicking around for a couple of years now. But what does it actually mean and why does it matter if you're looking to buy a new ...

Major television manufacturers, movie studios and streaming video services have joined together hoping to show that 4K ultra high definition (UHD) television is not a gimmick like its 3D predecessor ...