This was taken from a 4k article on content
Andy Marken
November 21, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Stephen – Thanks for the summary and in including NanoTech (Nuvola and UltraFlix). The UltraFlix channel (as you menioned) is available on Vizio, Sony and a number of other 4K UHD TV manufacturers sets which are awaiting news releases to be finalized so they can be announced. The Nuvola box won’t be required on these sets the UltraFlix channel will be on the sets and consumers can start streaming immediately either freemium or premium content. The 200+ hours of 4K content is a very old number. It has probably tripled since you had that information and the company is aggressively negotiating shared revenue contracts with more content owners than I can keep track of. In addition the company’s division 4K Studios is working with content owners to repurpose HD content to 4K ready. The two locations (Hollywood and San Francisco) are literally working round-the-clock to deliver even more content over UltraFlix and this is in addition to the native 4K agreements that are being signed. The Nuvola unit will be required for people who have – shall we say older 4K sets (without the enbedded channel – for streaming and more importantly in my opinion for game playing. Unlike game systems the Nuvola unit was designed first for streaming 4K content and then for game play (so the requirements are much higher). But game play is equally important because we know there are boomer, millenial and Gen X closet gamers out there and the more than 1500 Android-based games will find heavy actioin by that group of people so there are places for both solutions. I would look for a lot of the 4K UHD sets with the UltraFlix channel at retail over the holidays and at CES this year
Andy Marken
November 21, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Stephen – Thanks for the summary and in including NanoTech (Nuvola and UltraFlix). The UltraFlix channel (as you menioned) is available on Vizio, Sony and a number of other 4K UHD TV manufacturers sets which are awaiting news releases to be finalized so they can be announced. The Nuvola box won’t be required on these sets the UltraFlix channel will be on the sets and consumers can start streaming immediately either freemium or premium content. The 200+ hours of 4K content is a very old number. It has probably tripled since you had that information and the company is aggressively negotiating shared revenue contracts with more content owners than I can keep track of. In addition the company’s division 4K Studios is working with content owners to repurpose HD content to 4K ready. The two locations (Hollywood and San Francisco) are literally working round-the-clock to deliver even more content over UltraFlix and this is in addition to the native 4K agreements that are being signed. The Nuvola unit will be required for people who have – shall we say older 4K sets (without the enbedded channel – for streaming and more importantly in my opinion for game playing. Unlike game systems the Nuvola unit was designed first for streaming 4K content and then for game play (so the requirements are much higher). But game play is equally important because we know there are boomer, millenial and Gen X closet gamers out there and the more than 1500 Android-based games will find heavy actioin by that group of people so there are places for both solutions. I would look for a lot of the 4K UHD sets with the UltraFlix channel at retail over the holidays and at CES this year
