Delivery of Ultra HD content through the Secure...
Delivery of Ultra HD content through the Secure Content Storage Association (SCSA) initiative involves “a technology that will liberate high-quality content for consumers, allowing them to move it easily from device to device,” Fox Home Entertainment President Mike Dunn told…
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Samsung’s IFA news conference in Berlin. Fox Home Entertainment, SanDisk, Warner Home Entertainment and Western Digital are founding members of the SCSA, working to fashion “an open ecosystem” of 4K content that one could buy at retail or download for storage or playback on any number of brands of Ultra HD TVs that support that ecosystem, Samsung has said. Eighteen companies also belong to the SCSA as “contributing” members, the group’s website said (http://bit.ly/1t40L7U), but LG Electronics and Samsung are the only TV makers. Other contributing members are Akamai, ARM Holdings, Comcast, Cryptography Research, Cisco, Discretix, Dolby Labs, DTS, Inside Secure, Irdeto, Marvell, MediaTek, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Saffron Digital and Seagate. Ultra HD movies “are super-large files,” Dunn told the news conference Thursday. “How can you move them quickly and efficiently to your Samsung curved UHD TV? SCSA will help solve this. Our high-quality content will only be available in UHD on devices like Samsung’s that commit to SCSA technology. And that’s why Samsung customers can look forward to our entire summer lineup in UHD.” Without mentioning a time frame for releasing content through the SCSA initiative, he rattled off three titles: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, X-Men: Days of Future Past and The Fault in Our Stars. X-Men: Days of Future Past debuts Sept. 23 on digital download and Oct. 14 on Blu-ray and DVD, and The Fault in Our Stars debuts Sept. 16 on Blu-ray and DVD. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes has no street date yet. Samsung is one SCSA backer that has speculated the group wouldn’t have anything concrete to announce further on its Ultra HD content ecosystem until CES. Asked to provide specific details on what Ultra HD content Fox might release through the SCSA initiative and when, Danny Kaye, Fox executive vice president-research and technology strategy, responded Thursday in an email: “Sorry but nothing more just now.”