Ultra HD Forum
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Ultra HD Forum is an organization whose goal is to help solve the real world hurdles in deploying Ultra HD video and thus to help promote
History
On July 21, 2015, the Ultra HD Forum announced that they had over 20 member companies after incorporating as a US-based non-profit a month earlier.[3]
On April 18, 2016, the Ultra HD Forum announced industry guidelines for UHD Phase A content.[4][5][6][7] The Ultra HD Forum also announced that it had increased to 46 member companies.[4]
On January 5, 2017, the Ultra HD Forum announced that their guidelines had been updated to version 1.2 (including things like immersive audio,
On September 14, 2017 the guidelines were updated to version 1.4 (including new definitions of
UHD Phase A
UHD Phase A covers broadcasting services to be launched by end of 2016 or early 2017. The guidelines for UHD Phase A are:[7]
- progressive videoonly);
- must be supported);
- High dynamic range (HDR) – at least 13 stops (213=8192:1);
- Bit depth of 10-bits per sample;
- Frame rate of up to 60 fps (integer frame rates preferred);
- 5.1-channel audio or immersive audio;
- Closed captions/subtitles.
UHD Phase A consumer devices should be able to decode the
The guidelines also document live and pre-recorded production, as well as the combination of
UHD Phase B
An April 7, 2018 Ultra HD Forum published UHD Guidelines for phase B.[9] Technologies that have been included in UHD Phase B, which targets UHD services launching in 2018-2020, include:[6]
- Next Generation audio codecs supporting multiple audio objects (DTS:X, MPEG-H 3D Audio);
- Scalable Video Coding to encode spatial (resolutions 1080p and 2160p), temporal (different frame rates), color gamut (HDR) differences to provide backward-compatible video signal within a single program stream;
- Up to 12 bit color depth;
- High frame rates greater than 50/60 fps;
- UHD 8K resolution;
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- Single-layer HDR (SL-HDR1);
- Dual-layer HDR (Dolby Vision);
- Single-layer HDR (
- ICtCp color encoding;
- Color Remapping Information (CRI).
Founding/charter members
Charter members
Contributor members
- AMD
- Arris
- Astro
- Brightcove
- CableLabs
- DTG
- Fox
- KPN
- Kudelski Group
- MarkAny
- Marvell
- NXP Semiconductors
- Sigma Designs
- Sky
- SKY PerfecTV!
- Sony Pictures Entertainment
- Verimatrix
Associate members
- Keepixo
- Ultra HD Forum Italia
- b.com
- BBright
- Beamr
- CTO innovation Consulting
- Communicare Digitale
- Content Armor
- Darbee Vision
- Deutsche TV-Platform
- Digigram
- DVEO
- Fairmile West
- MovieLabs
- NexGuard
- NGCodec
- SECURE-iC
- SCTE
- Spectral Edge
- TAG-Video Systems
- Testronic Labs
- TNO
- Unified Streaming
- Xylostream
See also
References
- ^ a b "Ultra HD Forum Gains Momentum, Will Host MasterClass at IBC2015". Yahoo! Finance. 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
- ^ "NAB 2016: UHD Forum: We're 'Complimentary' [sic] to UHD Alliance". Broadcasting & Cable. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
- ^ "Ultra HD Forum Gains Momentum, Will Host MasterClass at IBC2015". Ultra HD Forum. 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
- ^ a b "Ultra HD Forum Releases First Industry Guidelines for Deploying End-to-End Live & Pre-Recorded UHD Services in 2016". Business Wire. 2016-04-18. Retrieved 2016-04-18.
- Advantage Business Media. Retrieved 2016-04-20.
- ^ a b "Phase A guidelines, revision 1.2". Ultra HD Forum. 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2017-01-15.
- ^ a b c d e "Guidelines Ultra HD Forum". Ultra HD Forum. 2018-04-06. Retrieved 2018-04-24.
- ^ "Building on successful 2016 UHD launches, Ultra HD Forum Releases updated deployment guidelines at CES 2017". Ultra HD Forum. 2017-01-05. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
- BusinessWire. 2018-04-07. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-01-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Philips HDR technology" (PDF). Philips. Retrieved 2017-01-10.