It will be “a while” before all 4K...

It will be “a while” before all 4K standards, aside from TVs, are finalized, Roy Stewart, vice president-Digital Media Services at Technicolor, predicted Tuesday at the first Digital Entertainment World conference in Los Angeles. As examples, there are still no standards for 4K movies on optical disc or broadcast TV. Technicolor and other technology companies, meanwhile, are under a tremendous amount of pressure to keep costs down, said Stewart. When it comes to multiplatform content in general, markets outside the U.S. face an especially large challenge because international technology standards are more “diverse” than in the U.S., he said. Hurdles for starting a video-streaming distribution business are getting “higher and higher,” said Seung Bak, co-founder and co-CEO of online international TV content distributor DramaFever, on the same panel. Companies must make content available digitally as soon as possible now to prevent consumers from having to find illegal methods of accessing that content, he said.