4k

Earlier this month, YouTube ran an experiment where it asked some free users to upgrade to a premium account to watch videos in 4K resolution. The company has now ended…

YouTube ends the test asking users to get a premium subscription to watch 4K videos

Hulu this summer finally brought back 4K content to its service, after abruptly removing it in 2018 while it focused on other priorities. Initially, its 4K content was only available…

Hulu rolls out 4K content to Xbox One, with Amazon Fire TV and others coming ‘soon’

Roku is expanding its lineup of streaming media players in an attempt to bring down the cost of 4K-ready devices, and plug every hole in the market. The company announced…

Roku brings down the cost of 4K streaming with its new Premiere players

Netflix is raising prices, you can now syndicate your stories from Instagram to Facebook, Magic Leap tells us nothing about what it’s doing and Amazon is testing and optimizing its…

As part of its iPhone unveil earlier this month, Apple also announced a new 4K Apple TV and topped it all off with $20 price tags for 4K HDR titles.…

Google Play seems to be following Apple to $20 4k movies

Nvidia’s Shield TV, an Android TV-based device that’s currently the best option available for 4K streaming fans, is getting a price drop with a new package that leaves out the…

Nvidia Shield TV gets a new, lower price ahead of Apple TV 4K launch

It may be getting a late start, compared with streaming services from Amazon and Netflix, but today Google Play Movies & TV is adding 4K movies to its content library.…

YouTube enabled support for 4K video on its site back in 2010, and today it’s bringing that same capability to live streaming. Both standard videos and 360 videos will be…

YouTube adds support for 4K live streaming

While the Camorama promo video is a bit, shall we say, racy I think the product is pretty solid. It’s basically a 4K action cam that doubles as a 360-degree…

Camorama records 360-degree 4K video for your VR pleasure

I get the chance to test out quite a bit of first-generation consumer gadgets. And while a few are great, the majority just aren’t able to meet the high threshold…

Sioeye Iris4G is an action camera with built-in cell service for live streaming

Have you ever tried to capture close-up video of yourself or others with a traditional drone? It’s nearly impossible. To solve this problem China-based Zero Zero Robotics has raised $25M to…

Hover, a self-flying camera drone, lands $25M for better aerial shots

We get to see the Earth in high definition every day, it’s true, but we’re limited to a certain ground-level point of view. Not so much the astronauts aboard the…

ISS beams down 4K footage of Earth shot with the RED Epic Dragon

If cord-cutting and streaming services are the future of TV watching, then it makes sense that one of the top makers of streaming media players, Roku, is expanding its television footprint.…

Roku Expands Its Smart TV Platform, Will Launch Its First 4K TV This Spring

CES kind of feels like my own personal hell, in that it takes the coolest technology in the world and surrounds it with marketing gimmickry. I noticed this the most…

4K TV Marketing At CES Is Depressingly Bad

Amazon has upped its streaming game, offering up 4K or Ultra HD resolution for certain movies and TV titles to Prime subscribers via Amazon Instant Video. The content available in…

Amazon Now Offering 4K Streaming For Movies And TV Shows On Prime Instant Video

Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Luca Maestri both have claimed excitement about the fall, but we have yet to get a glimpse at the total product pipeline. New reports…

Apple’s Busy Year-End Could Include A Fitness Wearable, 12″ Retina MacBook And 4K Products
Hardware

Netflix Is Now Streaming In 4K

7:39 am PDT • April 8, 2014

4K TV is here. Sort of. Netflix is now streaming the second season of House of Cards and some nature documentaries in 4K/Ultra HD format. But of course, your TV…

Netflix Is Now Streaming In 4K

Google TV is likely going away entirely, to be replaced by a familiar face – Android. Philips has just unveiled new Ultra HD (4K, whatever you prefer) TVs (via 9to5Google)…

Philips Introduces Android-Powered 4K TVs Coming Later This Year

Shutterstock Adds 4K Video

2:07 pm PST • February 7, 2014

Shutterstock, the publicly traded stock photography and video site, has quietly launched support for 4K video. As the company tells us, it has already amassed a catalog of over 11,000…

Panasonic showed off a unique new kind of OLED TV today on stage at the CES 2013 keynote, which is manufactured using 3D printing technology. The 56-inch television is incredibly…

Panasonic Debuts World’s First 4K Printed OLED TV, Just Half An Inch Thick

It seems that 55-Inch OLED TV wasn’t enough for LG: the Korean company today announced it’s ready to showcase another monster TV at the CES 2012 in Las Vegas (which…

LG To Showcase 84-Inch 3D TV With 4K Resolution At CES 2012

Full HD resolution (1,920×1,080 pixels) isn’t enough for Sharp. The company has developed [JP] a TV that’s capable of producing images with 3,840×2,160 resolution and is ready to show the…

[Update: Video] Sharp Showcases 4K LCD TV (3,840×2,160 Resolution), To Sell It 2012
Hardware

JVC's new $15,000 projector

6:42 am PST • February 1, 2010

If you have $15,000 to spare for a new gadget, this might be of interest to you: JVC Japan today announced [press release in English] the DLA-SH7NL, a video projector…

In June, Epson said it has begun mass-production of the world’s first HTPS-TFT panel boasting WUXGA resolution (1,920 x 1,200 pixels). And today, five months later, the same company announced…

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Eyes-on the 3D BCS Championship game

2:25 pm PST • January 9, 2009

The hottest ticket in Las Vegas last night was the inaugural 3D broadcast by RealD which featured the BCS Championship game and we were there. After chilling with some big…

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Sony updating the 4k SXRD projectors

10:00 am PDT • September 17, 2008

In case you are in the market for a projector that cost more than the average, oh, Porsche, Sony has two new 4K SXRD projectors. The SRX-T110 and SRX-T105 both retain the…

We’ve discussed the Red One camera and its counterparts before, and the 4K ultra-hi-def cinema they represent, but now Japan’s getting in on the action. NHK’s Science and Technical Research…

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Sony's New 4k Projector Comes Up Short

12:49 pm PDT • October 18, 2006

We’re all about 4k, the promised Utopian resolution of the near ultra-hi-def future. At display sizes around 292-inches at 96DPI, you really won’t need anything much larger (yeah, right). Sony,…

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Sharp Unveils 4k TV

2:53 pm PDT • October 6, 2006

In the year 2010, you’ll be watching 4k video. That is, video shot at 4096 x 2160 pixels, at 60 frames per second. Or something similar. That pushes HD up…