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UHD owners: “Where’s my 4K content?”

The UK’s influential Digital Television Group (DTG) quotes a study conducted by pollster YouGov and focus groups that the research company carried out in November 2017 with owners of 4K/UHD televisions. While participants praised

December 11, 2018By Chris Forrester

Vodafone, Sky Italia live 5G news test

Sky Italia and Vodafone Italia have teamed up for the first live 5G news broadcast in Europe. On the occasion of the annual opening night of the La Scala opera house in Milan, a Sky TG24 crew used a camera connected to the 5G network of Vodafone to report live from the prestigious event. This […]

December 11, 2018By Nick Snow

5G network slicing 4K UHD live broadcast

The 12th Migu Music Awards held recently in Shanghai saw the implementation of what is being claimed by participants Migu, China Mobile, and Huawei as the first application of 5G network slicing in global large-scale live broadcasting. “We have implemented E2E 5G+4K live broadcasting for this ceremony, including 4K filming, 4K transcoding, and 4K video […]

December 11, 2018

ISRO claims total success for GSAT-11

India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) says its massive and heaviest-ever GSAT-11 satellite has arrived at its geostationary orbit (at 36,000 kms) and with its all-important solar panels and reflectors correctly deployed. ISRO says that four orbit-raising manoeuvres were carried out over the recent weekend, following the launch by an Ariane rocket on Dec 5th. The […]

December 11, 2018By Chris Forrester

Study: Social media tops print as US news source

Social media sites have surpassed print newspapers as a news source for Americans: One-in-five US adults say they often get news via social media, slightly higher than the share who often do so from print newspapers (16 per cent) for the first time since Pew Research Center began asking these questions. In 2017, the portion […]

December 11, 2018

Benelux launch for hayu

hayu – the all-reality, on-demand subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service from NBCUniversal International – has launched in The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. The service is available direct-to-consumer on a full array of devices (mobile, tablet, web). The Benelux launch is a key milestone in the continued growth for the service, extending the number of hayu subscriber […]

December 11, 2018

Cinedigm to acquire Viewster

Digital content distribution specialist Cinedigm is to acquire global OTT VOD service Viewster and its subsidiary platform Viewster Anime, in a move that further bolsters the Company’s already-extensive OTT content portfolio, while adding an established and well-known property with trademarks in more than 30 countries around the world. Viewer and Viewster Anime’s roster of fandom […]

December 11, 2018

Report: HEVC 25% of worldwide traffic

The annual State of Live report from video transport technologist LiveU has confirmed the growing adoption of the HEVC protocol as the industry standard with 25 per cent of LiveU-generated traffic now HEVC-encoded. These figures reflect the increasing demand for professional-grade video quality, a trend most evident at this summer’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. […]

December 11, 2018

Romania nears top of Netflix ISP Speed Index

Analysis of the November data for the Netflix ISP Speed Index, the service’s update on which Internet Service Providers (ISPs) provide the best prime time Netflix streaming experience, reveals that Hargray in the United States saw the biggest speed increase on the index. At an increase of 1.85 Megabits per second (Mbps), Hargray’s speeds gained […]

December 11, 2018

Creatives call for fair EU remuneration rules

European and international authors and performers’ organisations from all sectors have urged Member States to support the Article -14 providing for fair and proportionate remuneration for authors and performers in the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. Proposed by the European Parliament and backed by a large majority of its members on September […]

December 11, 2018By Colin Mann