In what it describes as a “one-off experiment”, Sky is transmitting the second pre-season Formula One test in Barcelona in 3D. Sky has the rights to show live all Formula One races in the UK, with 2013 marking the second year of its coverage, launching a dedicated Sky F1 HD channel in 2012. The test […]
There’s no comment and absolutely nothing official but it seems that DirecTV, the US-based giant DTH broadcaster, is at least preparing for the introduction of something in Ultra-HDTV (or 4K for broadcast). DirecTV has filed with the US Patent & Trademark Office a bunch of new applications in readiness for this new transmission method. The […]
Samsung’s extremely high-end 85” Ultra-HDTV screens have sold out in Seoul despite a massive 40 million Won ($36,800) price ticket. The Korea IT Times says that Samsung’s debut offering put just 77 units into the retail chain in mid-January, and they had all sold by mid-February, prompting Samsung to start adding additional supplies thanks to […]
Five years ago the IMAX giant format cinemas had just 150 screens. That number is now 600, and up 50 or so on last year spread over 53 countries. A year ago it had few screens in China, for example, but the country now has 104 theatres open and another 130 in its ‘backlog’ list, […]
Spanish public broadcaster RTVE, together with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), Abertis Telecom, SAPEC, Sony, Apuntolapospo and URL La Salle have demonstrated the first Ultra High Definition 1 (UHDTV 1) DVB-T2 broadcast, in Barcelona at the MWC. The terrestrially distributed transmission, using 3840×2160 pixel resolution known as UHD-1 – four times the resolution of current […]
LG Electronics will showcase its Wireless Ultra HD Transmission technology for the first time at Mobile World Congress this week. This next generation mobile feature enables users to view games and other smartphone content on Ultra HD TVs in real time, via wireless data transfer. “Thanks to our innovative Wireless Ultra HD Transmission technology, users […]
YahLive, the High Definition television satellite broadcast platform and ‘Home of HD’ for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, has expanded its distribution network of YahLive certified satellite television dealers and dish installation technicians to nearly 500, making its exclusively HD TV channels available to more MENA households. An estimated 300 technicians were […]
Spanish broadcasting agency Abertis Telecom is to make the first worldwide UHDTV transmission at the end of this month within the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. An 84 inch TV screen will be used to test the quality of the UHDTV pictures that multiply by four the number of pixels on screen with a capacity […]
Fox Sports is to capture some of the upcoming Daytona Speedway ‘Speedweeks 2013’ event in 4K, including using its own Fox Super Zoom 4K cameras. These units were developed for use in Fox Sports’ coverage of Major League Baseball and National Football League games. Fox’s 4K camera captures footage at 300 frames per second and […]
The BBC will launch BBC Two HD on March 26th. BBC Two HD will be available on Sky HD (169), Freeview HD/YouView (102), Virgin Media (187), Freesat HD (109) and BT Vision (852). The announcement follows the successful launch of BBC One HD on November 3rd 2010. BBC Two HD will replace the existing BBC […]