New UK Website Lets Retailers Match 4K TVs With Ultra HD Services

The U.K.’s Digital TV Group launched a website to make it easier for retailers to match 4K TVs to Ultra HD services, the group said in a Friday announcement. Ultra HD TVs “are the must-have home entertainment upgrade for Christmas 2015, and now retailers can be confident their customers are buying TVs that work with the services they use,” the group said. The website, UHDready.co.uk, lets retailers quickly look up Ultra HD sets by manufacturer and see which services those sets will support, it said. The listings also can be searched by service, brand and screen size to view all suitable products, it said. LG, Sony and TP Vision, marketer of Philips-brand TVs in most markets outside North America, already are participating in the website, but additional manufacturers are “due to add their details over the coming weeks,” it said. “Manufacturers have provided information on their current Ultra HD TV models and have committed to providing ongoing updates as new models are launched in 2016.”