Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

When will Sky go 4K?

The past few weeks have seen various rumours aired as to when Sky UK, and/or Sky Germany, launch 4K/Ultra-HD services. Earlier in February a report in London’s Sunday Telegraph talked about Sky bringing its launch of 4K transmissions forward to this Spring.  There was no denial by Sky, but certainly no endorsement either. Indeed, at […]

March 10, 2015

Free launches 4K mini box

French telco Free, an affiliate of Iliad Group, has launched its Freebox Mini 4K in France, the first tripleplay offering to be Ultra-HD compatible worldwide. The Freebox Mini is uses Android TV, following the partnership between Iliad and Google, which had also previously integrated its system in Bouygues’ BBox Miami. Claiming to be at least […]

March 10, 2015From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

133-Megapixel sensors for 8K UHD

A California company which specialises in high-resolution and ultra-sensitive CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductors) image-sensing transistors for use in digital imaging, says it has been working with Japan’s public broadcaster NHK to develop a 133 Megapixel camera sensor.

March 10, 2015By Chris Forrester

4K set for 50% of US homes

The US will emerge as the leading market for 4K or Ultra HD TVs in terms of household penetration by 2020 followed by the leading Western European markets, Australia, South Korea and China. According to Strategy Analytics’

March 5, 2015

DTG: ‘Don’t oversell UHD’

The UK’s Digital Television Group (DTG) has highlighted the risks of over-promising on the 4K experience after the Advertising Standards Authority told DSG Retail not to re-run a Christmas ad implying that 4K TVs would show greater detail without supporting evidence, and to ensure they “clearly communicated the standard of quality that would be achieved”. […]

March 5, 2015By Colin Mann

Currys/PC World censured over 4K claim

DSG Retail, trading as Currys/PC World, has been found in breach of three advertising rules in relation to a television ad which claimed that purchasers of LG TVs would be able to watch their favourite Christmas movies in greater detail. The ad stated that “At Currys PC World, we’ll help you get it right this […]

March 4, 2015By Colin Mann

M-GO adds DTS sound to 4K output

OTT narrowcaster M-GO has contracted with enhanced sound specialists DTS to encode its HD and 4K programming with DTS technology. M-GO is backed by Technicolor and DreamWorks, and is available in some markets on Samsung displays as well as PCs and other connected devices. M-GO says it is the first OTT supplier to also embrace […]

March 4, 2015By Chris Forrester

Measat demos 4K channels

Visitors to Malaysia’s Asia Broadcasting Union’s ‘DBS’ show (Digital Broadcasting Symposium) in Kuala Lumpur (March 3-6) will see a pair of Ultra-HD channels transmitted from a Measat satellite using DVB-2SX. The signals will also be converted and transmitted terrestrially via DVB-T2 signals throughout the exhibition. Visitors will also be able to see 8K transmissions from […]

March 2, 2015By Chris Forrester

Ericsson enables Tata Sky 4K

Communications technology specialist Ericsson has enabled Tata Sky, India’s leading DTH operator, to launch the first commercial 4K video service in the subcontinent. With the launch of the Tata Sky 4K service, customers subscribing to this service can watch video up to four times the resolution of the standard HD video currently available. Ericsson will […]

March 2, 2015

LG leads UHD sales

South Korean electronics giant LG supplied 1.86 million Ultra-HD panels in Q4/2014, and took 27.9 per cent of the global market by volume according to data from DisplaySearch. LG narrowly beat

February 27, 2015By Chris Forrester