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In-home movie watching to get upgrade with Ultra HD Blu-ray

S ales of Ultra HD televisions are likely to get a boost with news that Hollywood movies will soon be available on Blu-ray Disc for the super-high resolution format. The Blu-ray Disc Association announced Tuesday the completion of the Ultra HD Blu-ray specification and will begin licensing the technology this summer to makers of set-top boxes and discs. Ultra HD video, also called 4K, offers four times the resolution of today’s standard high-definition video. To view Ultra HD Blu-ray movies, consumers will need 4K televisions as well as not-yet-available Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc players. To date, Internet television services Netflix (NFLX) and Amazon.com (AMZN) have been the leading providers of 4K content with select TV shows and movies.

Pay-TV Tipping Point? Cord-Cutting Accelerates In Q1

For the first time ever, the U.S. pay-television industry lost customers in the traditionally strong first-quarter, highlighting the difficulties subscription-based TV providers face amid an Internet onslaught from Netflix (NFLX), Dish Network’s (DISH) Sling TV, Hulu and others, with Apple (AAPL) and others possible players down the road. Pay-TV lost a net 31,000 customers in Q1 and has an annual contraction rate of 0.5%, according to Craig

Amazon, Apple, AT&T Seen As Winners In Infrastructure Shift

Amazon.com (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Netflix (NFLX) and AT&T (T)and are among the winners as U.S. tech infrastructure shifts to cloud-based connectivity, hyperscale data centers and the Internet of Things, says an S&P Capital IQ Global Markets Intelligence report. The study assesses U.S. infrastructure developments in health care, energy, financial services and other sectors. In the technology sector, many companies will gain from a shift in how