The BBC and BT Sport have retained the rights to The FA Cup until 2021, after the broadcasters reached agreement with the FA to extend their shared coverage of the competition for another three years. The deal also covers coverage in Ultra HD from the 2016-17 season. The Football Association has confirmed the extension in […]
DirecTV is boosting its Ultra HD output, and starting April 15th will start showing Major League Baseball in UHD. The broadcaster now has 3 dedicated 4K channels on air, and last weekend carried the US Masters golf tournament in 4K. DirecTV says it will start showing the first of 25 games in 4K resolution, the […]
ATEME has announced that FRANSAT, the satellite TV bouquet of Eutelsat in France, broadcast the Vienna Opera ballet “Le Corsaire” live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) on April 2, in partnership with Arte channel. The show was available in France, as well as the rest of Europe, Mediterranean region and Middle East through the satellite […]
Rai, Italy’s national public broadcaster and satellite operator Eutelsat are teaming up to deliver live coverage of premium sport in Ultra HD. Following an agreement between the two companies, seven matches of the Euro 2016 championship will be offered to Italian TV homes receiving Tivùsat, the free-to-view platform distributed by satellite from Eutelsat’s HOT BIRD […]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and AsiaSat are teaming up to deliver the first UHD live sports event via satellite to the Asia-Pacific tomorrow (April 13) on AsiaSat 4. This will be the first ever live UHD telecast of a UEFA Champions League match in the Asia Pacific, following the pioneering live UHD transmission of […]
V-Nova, a provider of video compression solutions, has announced that Eutelsat has chosen V-Nova PERSEUS video compression for the contribution of visually lossless 4K international feeds of the UEFA Euro Championship 2016. The deployed system will be used from the quarter final onwards to enable RAI to offer live coverage of the final stages of […]
Ultra-HD Blu-rays are now available in the UK after launching in the US earlier this year. Twelve titles are currently available including Mad Max: Fury Road, Life of Pi, Fantastic Four and Pan. Movies in the new format are priced between £20 (€25) and £25 and are available from a range of retailers including Amazon […]
Customers of US pay-TV operator DISH can now stream the Netflix catalogue of Ultra HD TV shows and movies from a Hopper 3 DVR. These Netflix titles join DISH’s inventory of Ultra HD content that includes a slate of 4K programming from Sony, The Orchard and Mance Media. me/20160408005494/en/ The Hopper 3 delivers native 4K […]
Video Clarity, provider of market-leading audio and video quality measurement and analysis systems, has announced the release of RTM 4K, a 4K-capable version of the company’s RTM real-time audio and video monitoring solutions. RTM 4K claims to be the first quality-monitoring solution that can apply 4K video sources and compare them with encoded/decoded 4K video […]
Speakers at a MIPTV 4K Ultra HD Conference session on ‘The New Ultra HD Broadcasters’ have expressed their confidence in the prospects for the format, admitting their roles in launching such services has enable many valuable lessons to be learned. Dr Michael Schiffer, CEO EnStyle/pearl.tv noted that although there is widespread availability of 4K capture […]