It’s amazing to see how different the sun looks depending on the filters you use. Here you can see it in ultraviolet light, looking as evil as the darkest pits of Mordor. I imagine those sinuous filaments are nefarious serpents made from the souls of dead evil people.
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Several different kinds of video streaming are available on the Sony PlayStation 4 right this minute, with a whopping 13 apps bringing content from various sources. What wasn’t immediately clear … Continue reading
Walmart’s Vudu online video store has added Intel’s “UltraViolet” (UV) content library to its own. The move will expand Vudu viewers’ selection to include titles by UV’s digital distribution model. … Continue reading
Kaleidescape arrived at this year’s CEDIA event with a couple of fresh news items to accompany its mainstream-adjacent $3,995 Cinema One player. Its online Kaleidescape Store is getting a boost by adding the ability for customers to add digital copies for their existing Blu-ray discs. At launch it only supported DVDs, but now customers can get high quality, discless access to movies they already own HD editions of, just by putting a disc in the player. The price for Ultraviolet access across devices and an excuse to stop getting up from the couch to put the disc in (although, if you’d like to buy an expensive disc changer instead we’re sure Kaleidescape won’t argue) is $1.99, so choose wisely. Finally, the company is expanding access to the store, which has opened its virtual doors in Canada for the first time, in addition to the US and the UK, where it launched back in May.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Source: Kaleidescape
Now that Barnes & Noble is backing away from producing its own Nook tablets, it has less incentive to keep Nook Video as an exclusive. Accordingly, it’s opening things up by launching Nook Video apps for ordinary Android devices, iOS and Roku boxes. Like on Barnes & Noble’s own hardware, the new apps let US viewers buy or rent movies for streaming; users can also watch any content stored in their UltraViolet collections. The releases may not get customers leaving one of the many existing alternative services, but those who already have an investment in Nook Video can grab an appropriate app at one of the source links.
Filed under: Cellphones, Tablets, HD, Mobile
Source: App Store, Google Play, Barnes & Noble
You may already know that silicon chips are etched using deep ultraviolet lithography, but you might not realise that we’ve reached the limit of what can be done using normal UV rays. Fortunately a new kind of light, called Extreme Ultraviolet, is about to land in the hands of chip manufacturers—and it should help your processor keep up with Moore’s Law.
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Early this year, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. movie studios chose Dolby Digital Plus as their preferred means to deliver surround sound for their UltraViolet common file format (CFF) downloads. Paramount Pictures, however, has decided to go with Dolby’s competitor, DTS, announcing today that the DTS-HD codec will be used in its UltraViolet CCF offerings. Like Dolby, the DTS codec delivers up to 7.1 channels of surround sound for Paramount’s UV catalog — though your cloud-based audio/visual bliss will have to wait, UltraViolet CFF isn’t slated for release until sometime in the latter half of 2013.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Via: The Verge
In June Paramount and Regal Theaters tried out a $50 “Mega Ticket” promotion for World War Z, and this month Warner Bros. is testing out a similar package in Canada for Pacific Rim. Available at Cineplex theaters, it lets moviegoers pre-buy a digital Ultraviolet copy of the movie for $19.99 ($24.99 in HD) that’s promised to arrive before anyone else can get it, plus 725 points for its loyalty program and some exclusive extra content, all viewable on the CineplexStore website. Unlike the WWZ promo this doesn’t include an early screenings before the movie’s July 12th release, but it does mean any ticket can be upgraded to the “Super Ticket” package. That the flick was shot in Toronto probably has a lot to do with the location for the offer, although it’s hard to say what’s needed to convince viewers to check out an action movie already getting glowing reviews from Hideo Kojima and Kanye West. Of course we’ll miss the MegaTicket’s included small popcorn ($75 value!), but this could be getting closer to a decent proposition — what price would convince you to combine your movie ticket / home video copy in one purchase?
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
Via: Company Town, THR
Source: Cineplex
To use UltraViolet these days, you have to live in one of a few English-speaking countries. Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will change that soon: the company just teased its plans for the digital locker service in mainland Europe. According to the firm’s David Bishop, Germans will get cloud access to Sony movies in late September — possibly September 30th, as DECE hinted in April — while the French will have their turn sometime in the fall. Neither Sony nor other studios have provided additional launch dates, although we know that neighboring countries like Belgium and the Netherlands should be next on the list.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Sony
Source: Handelsblatt (translated)
Vudu’s player for Android launched last year with tablet support, and now a new update lets it work on a limited selection of phones. Newer Samsung handsets, the Nexus 4, HTC One and several other devices round out the list, as the app works for either streaming or downloading movies. It worked without issue on our Nexus 4, however since its UI hasn’t changed from the tablet version some of the buttons were smaller than we’d like. Also, we couldn’t get the video to play in any res beyond SD so it wasn’t the sharpest, but there was a high enough bitrate to make movie-watching enjoyable on the small screen. As usual, the app is free, if you have an account with the VOD / Ultraviolet service hit the Play Store link below to see if works on your hardware of choice.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD, Mobile
Source: Google Play, Vudu Blog
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