TV Everywhere? Hardly. Four years after Comcast Chief Executive Officer Brian Robert and Time Warner Cable CEO Jeff Bewkes introduced their concept of TV of the future at the Cable Show in Los Angeles, a service that would deliver a plethora of content to subscribers at any time anywhere, the initiative remains stalled.
Live-streaming is a nice additive to the concert-going experience, but will it ever replace sold-out arenas? How you approach the world of live-streamed concerts is probably mostly a matter of personal taste. Some people would never trade the rock, sweat and tears of a live event for a calm, on-screen viewing experience.
For the content on the service, Sony is using 4K encoders from EyeIO but isn’t divulging details of the compression rate for its 4K video. However, according to Sony, the 10 movies will take up about 400 gigabytes total on the FMP-X1, or an average of 40 GB per pic.
Content encoded at eyeIO’s Palo Alto headquarters are full 4K UltraHD, 3840×2160 resolution and include support for extended gamut color (xvYCC). eyeIO’s certified, 4K UltraHD offering has been refined over the course of the last two years. eyeIO’s technology is said to be 50 percent more efficient than MPEG-4/H.264.
The American Cancer Society has announced construction of a Hope Lodge in Salt Lake City, which will provide accommodations to cancer patients and their caregivers who face long commutes or who must travel from other states to receive treatment from Salt Lake’s premier cancer centers.
I stopped by eyeIO offices to get a demonstration of some of the 4K content. What I found convinced me more than ever that online delivery will lead the ultraHD charge. However, regardless of 4Ks fortunes advanced video codecs like eyeIO’s are a game-changer.
