UHD Alliance Completes Work on ‘Premium’ Specs for 4K Displays, Content, Distribution

The UHD Alliance has completed work on “premium specifications” for Ultra HD displays, content and distribution, and will disclose details on those specs at CES, along with a “consumer-facing certification logo” for compliant products, it said in a Tuesday announcement. “Advances in resolution, brightness, contrast, color and audio will enable certified displays and content to replicate the richness of life’s sights and sounds and allow in-home viewers to more fully and accurately experience the content creator’s vision,” the alliance said. Alliance President Hanno Basse, Fox corporate chief technology officer, promised at IFA in Berlin that his group would have “a lot of things to share” at CES, including perhaps details on a dual-logo program for compliant hardware products (see 1509080050). Tuesday’s announcement made no mention of dual logos, only that the specs “cover a combination of key features and consumer-tested benchmarks that will usher in a new era of in-home entertainment.”