Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, is testing and trialling the use of Ultra-HD for newsgathering. The plans include 4K for current affairs and other news-based TV production. Masashi Yoshino, NHK’s senior producer at its News Features Production Center, told delegates to MIPCOM’s UHD sessions devoted to 4K production that test broadcasts of its ‘Super Hi-Vision’ technology […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI is to transmit an eight-episode drama, shot in Ultra-HD, to Italian viewers starting on October 18th. The show, Medici: Masters of Florence, an historical drama starring Dustin Hoffman and chronicling the rise of the Italian Renaissance political dynasty will be available exclusively in the RAI 4K channel on Italy’s Tivùsat platform […]
Insight TV, the factual entertainment channel, has commissioned a sports reality programme filmed entirely in HDR. The 30//10 Challenge is an adventure stunt series that follows action sport athletes Sam Hardy and Nathan Jones on their journey to create and complete ten unique challenges over the course of thirty days. They will be joined by […]
SFR Media’s new VoD platform Zive – set to be rebranded as SFR Play by the end of 2016 – will launch TV series Medici: Masters of Florence in 4K on October 25th, and as its first original and exclusive TV content. The first two episodes will be available at launch. The series will be […]
4K-SAT, the Ultra-HD channel operated by AsiaSat, will be broadcasting premium extreme and outdoor content from XTreme Video on AsiaSat 4. XTreme Video is producing 4K content for extreme sports fans worldwide. Its UHD content on 4K-SAT will include some of the most stunning extreme and outdoor content, such as the successful mountain biking series […]
Tata Communications, Formula One Management and Sky have tested in action live Ultra HD broadcasting at the 2016 F1 Singapore Grand Prix. Following this first ever end-to-end broadcast of an F1 race in UHD, Sky will show all races of the 2017 season in UHD. The successful proof of concept involved the installation of multiple […]
Data from Juniper Research has found that 4K OTT content will finally see mass-market appeal, with adoption set to soar over the next five years. Juniper’s research, Digital TV & Video: Network and OTT Strategies 2016-2021, found that 4K OTT services will attract over 189 million unique users globally by 2021, up from just 2.3 […]
Data from Juniper Research has found that revenues from SVoD services, such as Netflix and Amazon, are set to more than double from $14.6 billion (€13bn) this year, to $34.6 billion in 2021. Netflix now sees US subscriber numbers level with leading network providers DirecTV and Comcast (47 million and 47.7 million respectively). Juniper’s research, […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has created an 8K programme in an international coproduction with French art museum the Louvre, for test broadcasts of 8K (Super Hi-Vision) just started in August. This marks the first international coproduction to be created entirely in 8K. NHK says it hopes that the high regard that the Louvre, the world’s […]
Digital rights management specialist Intertrust Technologies that the Intertrust ExpressPlay cloud-based DRM system is now compatible with Dolby Vision, the premium high dynamic range (HDR) imaging format for Ultra-High Definition (UHD) content. This solution will aid and accelerate UHD deployments worldwide by offering TV manufacturers and content service providers hardware-level protection for Dolby Vision media […]