UHD Alliance Plans Some CES ‘Updates,’ But No ‘Full-Blown’ News Conference

The UHD Alliance plans a CES announcement with “some updates," but nothing that would "justify a full-blown press conference,” spokeswoman Heather Gioco emailed us. Except for an April announcement expanding its certification program to Ultra HD Blu-ray players (see 1604120017), it has been a quiet year for the alliance since last CES, where it announced its Ultra HD Premium logo program (see 1601030003). Compliance with a series of “performance metrics” on image resolution, color gamut and high dynamic range will determine which devices and content will qualify to bear Ultra HD Premium as a “consumer-facing” logo, the alliance said then. But the alliance, whose formation was announced at CES two years ago (see 1501060001), has yet to publicly release a list of certified TVs, Ultra HD Blu-ray players and content, and tabs for accessing those lists at the alliance’s website were still password-protected Friday.