Today’s TVs and other devices have decompression software on a chip inside the device.  Sony’s new 4K TVs and accompanying 4K media player use compression from tech company eyeIO, but the media player sidesteps the problem by downloading content instead of streaming it.
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.
A creative partnership between two Salt Lake City nonprofits—Salt Lake Valley Habitat for Humanity and the American Cancer Society (ACS), Intermountain Region—combined with the generous donation of an abandoned church and the 2.2-acre lot it sits on…
“I think it’s really big,†says Ken Brueck, co-founder and CMO of UpLynk, a streaming service provider that’s powering ABC’s new Watch ABC app, which was released in May.
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Work began Wednesday on the site of the future Hope Lodge in Salt Lake City. It’s the American Cancer Society’s project and through a lot of community donations will help cancer patients and their families.
Volunteers on Wednesday began stripping a former LDS Church building of its hardwood floors, lighting fixtures and other materials, which will be donated to Habitat for Humanity for new homes and its retail store, ReStore.
SALT LAKE CITY — Weeds growing through cracks in the pavement and taped-up windows reveal the deterioration of a chapel that has been abandoned for six years.
Looking to avoid the chicken-and-egg scenario that plagued the early days of HDTV and attract new customers to the next-generation UltraHD (4K) TV, Sony Pictures is licensing video compression technology from a company called eyeIO to deliver some of its most popular movies stored on its $699 FMP-X1 4K media player to Sony’s UltraHD TV sets, which will […]
At CES eyeIO claimed its software suite was “studio grade” 4K ready and it will be put to the test soon, since Sony Pictures is licensing it to deliver movies to theFMP-X1 4K media player this summer. Sony didn’t have any more details to reveal about its 4K delivery plans just yet, but eyeIO’s press release claims […]
EyeIO, a Palo Alto startup, announced today that its Ultra HD compression encoding technology has been licensed by Sony Pictures to offer 4K content delivery using the Sony FMP-X1.
eyeIO has confirmed that its UltraHD compression encoding technology has been licensed by Sony Pictures to enable the studio to offer the first-ever 4K UltraHD content delivered to the home.
Palo Alto, Calif.-based technology company Eye IO has licensed its 4K Ultra HD technology to Sony Pictures, helping the studio deliver 4K content to the home for the first time.
EyeIO said Friday that Sony Pictures has licensed its Ultra High-Definition compression-encoding technology to support native 4K movie downloads to the home.
While it’s still unclear how many consumers will take a shine to new Ultra HD TVs, Sony is getting ready to launch the industry’s first 4K streaming service this summer using an encoding system from startup Eye IO to squeeze the video down for broadband delivery.
Owners of Sony’s Ultra HDTVs will soon be able to access 4K movies delivered to their sets via a Sony 4K media player (pictured above), which was first previewed at CES and launches this summer. To help make this possible, Sony Pictures is working with eyeIO.
