Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

Robust results from SES

SES turned in a solid set of results for its Q4 and full year, and in an extremely positive move saw its all-important backlog of contract expand from €7.4 billion in 2015 to €8.1 billion last year. Reported revenue of €2.068 billion (up 2.7 per cent) and contributing to a net profit of €962.7 million. Its […]

February 24, 2017By Chris Forrester

Vodafone debuts 4K channels and VoD

Vodafone Spain is launching a new 4K TV service with five TV channels (10 by year end ) and VoD content for subscribers with convergent packages, like Vodafone One. The five new channels are Odisea 4K, Festival 4K, FunBox UHD, Insight TV and Slow Channel – and one 4K transmission of the best football match […]

February 23, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid

Toon Goggles 4K on Foxxum Smart TVs

Toon Goggles, a provider of 4K on-demand video content for kids, is now available on all connected devices running the Foxxum Smart TV solution. The application offers a wide range of animated series for children of all ages, covering educational, adventure, fantasy, action and comedy cartoons like Badanamu, Bernard, Super Geek Heroes, Boing, Om Nom, […]

February 23, 2017

Globo.com selects Elemental for 4K VoD

Elemental Technologies, a specialist in software-defined video solutions, has announced that Globo.com has selected its video processing solutions to power its new 4K VoD services. The agreement expands the broadcaster’s existing Elemental deployment with added video infrastructure to process streaming 4K content with HEVC compression. Globo.com provides digital platforms and services for Brazil’s Grupo Globo, […]

February 20, 2017

Analyst: UHD not yet mass-market

According to the latest Ultra HD tracking report from Futuresource Consulting, although UHD as a home entertainment format has firmly planted its stake in the market, with strong growth evident from software to hardware adoption, it remains some way off reaching levels of mass-market adoption. Futuresource Consulting has been monitoring the UHD format for over […]

February 14, 2017By Colin Mann

DISH confirms 4K Planet Earth II

Following advanced-television.com’s report that US pay-TV operator DirecTV is to broadcast a range of programming in 4K, satellite platform DISH TV has confirmed it is to deliver live natural history series, Planet Earth II in the format. The series will simulcast on BBC America, AMC and SundanceTV on February 18th with subsequent episodes airing on BBCA […]

February 14, 2017

Planet Earth II on HDR/4K Blu-ray

The BBC will debut its award-winning Planet Earth II documentary series in 4K and High Dynamic Range, on Blu-ray on March 13th. Speaking about the announcement, Lesley Johnson, Operations Director for BBC Worldwide, said: “The picture quality is astonishing. For the first time viewers can experience at home the picture quality viewed in the edit […]

February 14, 2017By Chris Forrester

UHD Alliance: ‘HDR a key driver’

Members of trade body the UHD Alliance, meeting at European Broadcasting Union (EBU) headquarters in Geneva recently to assess the current status of the UHD market, have noted that HDR (High Dynamic Range) has emerged as one of the key drivers for sales of UHD devices. “Ours is a unique organisation, with all of the […]

February 13, 2017By Colin Mann

Vodafone 4K for Spain and Germany

Vodafone Spain is set to launch a new set-top-box with TiVo and 4K technology integrated in the device, manufactured by French company Sagemcom. The device will allow the user to record TV content (up to 350 hours) and keep it in the cloud available then view it on any other STB in the home. It […]

February 13, 2017From David Del Valle in Madrid