The ITU’s research working party (ITU-R Working Party 6C) has met and agreed the parameter values for the “next two generations” of TV transmission technology. These are the (so-called) 4K and 8K UHDTV formats. The meeting took place alongside a Forum on Emerging Media Technologies in Geneva, Switzerland. David Wood, the EBU’s deputy technology and development director, chairs the WP6C [...]
Samsung’s vice-chairman, Kwon Oh-Hyen, has told the Korea Times that his company is enjoying “significant demand” from customers for OLED-equipped thin-film flexible screens. “[We are] getting huge orders from electronic makers for the futuristic lineup of flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) displays,” said Kwon, adding that “we will be mass producing flexible OLED displays from the latter half of [...]
As video consumption increases and viewing devices vary, consumers are still using televisions most often to watch video, according to the Evolving Video Landscape study released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Consumers are watching more video than they have in the past, across a variety of platforms. One-third of US adults online (34 per cent) say they watch more [...]
Telefonica’s Latin American operation is to carry all 36 Olympic Games channels live to its viewers of its Terra on-line broadband service. Terra says its Olympic Games portal will rely on 36 channels simultaneously, for the broadcasting of a total of some 4,760 HD and 3D hours. Terra says it expects to reach 100 million single users over the course [...]
US 3D-TV channel 3net (owned by Sony, Discovery and IMAX) has struck a distribution deal with China’s leading VoD platform, YOU-on-Demand for 3D content. The service will launch this summer to YOU’s 3 million households, expected to grow to 11 million by year-end. 3net’s programming will be available on a VOD and PPV basis on the network. “With the addition [...]
Viewers are increasingly enjoying high-definition TV in South America. In just 7 months the number of pay-TV operators offering DTV channels has grown from 36 to 45 operators in the seven main markets alone. Typically viewers are seeing around 21 HD channels in each country, and this represents a 20 per cent growth since September last year. According to a [...]
Organic Light-Emitting Diode-based (OLED) TV screens are a wonder to behold. Brilliant to view, highly-efficient and inexpensive to run once you have paid the eye watering ticket price! Samsung says it will commercialise its – to date – prototype manufacturing of OLED screens later this year, and introduce a model onto its South Korean domestic market. A proposed high-end 55” [...]
It seems SES Astra’s scheme to persuade German viewers to buy into its “technical plan” to encrypt HDTV signals is winning people over. Ahead of its quarterly financial numbers (released on Friday 11th May) SES says that HD+ now reaches more than 2.6 million homes (as at March 31st). Some 3 million new HD+ set-top boxes/receivers have been sold since [...]
For the second year in a row, worldwide TV shipments are expected to remain flat. 2012 shipments to developed markets, especially Western Europe and Japan, are expected to be down 11 per cent Y/Y, which would offset the forecasted 8 per cent Y/Y growth in emerging markets, according to the latest NPD DisplaySearch Even so, growth is projected to continue [...]
Swiss pay-TV broadcaster Teleclub has revealed it will offer its TV package in HD from September 12th. The channels will be made available on the cable networks and IPTV platforms that currently carry Teleclub’s line-up in standard definition – including UPC Cablecom and Swisscom TV. Teleclub’s HD platform will comprise its own channels Teleclub Cinema HD, Teleclub Star HD and [...]
