As you may have read in my three wishes for CES 2015, Blu-ray 4K was in my mind the most important announcement of the show this year. After a limited press releases last September announcing the format would be launched for the 2015 holiday period, CES was the perfect timing to hope to see players in action and ideally a commitment from studios to the format. After watching the webcast of  the press conferences at the show on Monday, it’s hard to be very satisfied with what was announced.

The only company that presented something was Panasonic, who showed a prototype player, pictured above, supporting 4K video output at 60p, 10-bit gradation of colours and high dynamic range, all of this through an impressive debit of 100 Mbps coming from the disc format. This is all of course tentative as the format standards has not been confirmed yet.

No details yet have been provided about a release date for the player nor for any movies to go along with it.

The only other news related to this was the announcement of the Ultra High Definition Alliance with initial membership from DirecTV, Dolby, Netflix, Panasonic, Samsung Sharp, Sony, Technicolor, The Walt Disney, Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. The group will work together in making Ultra HD content easier to produce and consume and it seems to include the disc based format.

Oh and yes, at least we seem to have a name : Ultra HD Blu-ray. That’s a start I imagine…