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I’m guessing you’ve heard the terms Ultra HD and 4K by now. Coming out of CES 2013, the buzz about these new ultra high-resolution video formats has been inescapable. With major display manufacturers championing UHD as the greatest thing since the invention of the motion picture, it is tough to separate the technophile specs that we all love to geek out on from the real-world applications. To evaluate how these new video technologies will impact the market, we must first decipher the alphabet soup of format names and understand their relationship to each other.