8KA Says Goal Is to ‘Harmonize’ Its 8K Definition With CTA’s ‘as Much as Possible’
Many 8K Association member companies also are in CTA's Video Division, emailed Chris Chinnock, 8KA executive director, Wednesday. The division released its 8K Ultra HD compliance logo and platform definitions Tuesday (see 1909170061). “While those companies have visibility into the…
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full details of the spec, I do not,” he said. “However, it has been our goal to harmonize our 8K Definition with the CTA 8K definition as much as possible.” Since 8KA hasn’t defined its test methods or reviewed the full CTA spec, “we can’t yet comment on any issues with harmonization between the two specs,” said Chinnock. One possible differentiator is that CTA’s focus “will be limited to the TV and TV interface,” while 8KA’s activities “will reach out into the full ecosystem,” he said. “We already have a good start in representative companies from this supply chain, but we welcome more companies to join as well to help advance the state of 8K content creation, mastering and distribution in addition to playback and display. We also welcome coordination with other industry organizations to increase compatibility of standards and guidelines and reduce professional and consumer confusion.” 8KA announced technical specs just before IFA and landed 11 new members (see 1908290018), but not LG or Sony, both active in the CTA Video Division, as is founding 8KA member Samsung. Sony early on ruled out joining 8KA, using its CTA participation as its rationale (see 1902120019).