Odemax....
looks like the Red Bee company logo !
Odemax are the first to deliver a 4K movie to the home.
The unlikely group to pull off this next step in the fast paced evolution of TV you have never heard of. We all thought Sony would break this ground first, but no !
Last month, a REDRAY player downloaded a Ultra HD/4K movie for the very first time, a milestone in 4k online distribution. The film, which was a 23-minute short titled “The Ballad of Danko Jones,” starring Elijah Wood.
The movie at 23 minutes in length was 3GB in size and took over an hour and a half to download by an OdeMax customer over Time Warner Cable and was encoded with RED’s UHD Codec. A file size of 3 GB for a film that’s not even a half hour long? Blimey !
It’s important to note that the film was downloaded and stored on RED’s REDRAY Server and not streamed, but streaming is sure to come.
And while the 23-minute short weighed in at a hefty 3GB download, according to Odemax, the download was merely a private beta test of the network architecture to select users that used less compression, presumably to stress test the connection.
Odemax/Red says that the compression settings of the REDRAY codec can create feature length file sizes of 6GB. And even if that’s true, you’re talking about taking three hours to download a film to watch it with current consumer grade bandwidth speeds.
In other news, representatives from BBC and BSkyB will co-chair a new forum to outline the requirements for Ultra HD televisions, before any new sets are plastered with "Ultra HD-Ready" labels.
The new UHD-Forum will outline the benefits of the new format which, the Telegraph reports, will help to avoid a repeat of the public confusion surrounding 'HD Ready,' claims when high-def sets first arrived.
The group, led by the UK's Digital TV Group (DTG), will also decide whether a 'UHD profile' should be established, requiring manufacturers to meet certain standards in order to call their TV's 'Ultra HD'.
The sets currently on sale only have to meet the '4K resolution' can call themselves Ultra HD, but the forum sees variables like colour, frame rate and dynamic range as also contributing to the new viewing standard
A number of 'Ultra HD' sets from Sony and Samsung (like the S9 Ultra) have already gone on sale in the UK in the last few months, starting at around £3,999 and are available from Curry's and PC World.
Sony has pledged to begin streaming 4K movies later this year, in light of the current dearth of Ultra HD content available to consumers.
It’s important to note that the film was downloaded and stored on RED’s REDRAY Server and not streamed, but streaming is sure to come.
Odemax/Red says that the compression settings of the REDRAY codec can create feature length file sizes of 6GB. And even if that’s true, you’re talking about taking three hours to download a film to watch it with current consumer grade bandwidth speeds.
In other news, representatives from BBC and BSkyB will co-chair a new forum to outline the requirements for Ultra HD televisions, before any new sets are plastered with "Ultra HD-Ready" labels.
The new UHD-Forum will outline the benefits of the new format which, the Telegraph reports, will help to avoid a repeat of the public confusion surrounding 'HD Ready,' claims when high-def sets first arrived.
The sets currently on sale only have to meet the '4K resolution' can call themselves Ultra HD, but the forum sees variables like colour, frame rate and dynamic range as also contributing to the new viewing standard
A number of 'Ultra HD' sets from Sony and Samsung (like the S9 Ultra) have already gone on sale in the UK in the last few months, starting at around £3,999 and are available from Curry's and PC World.
Sony has pledged to begin streaming 4K movies later this year, in light of the current dearth of Ultra HD content available to consumers.
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