Orange Spain has launched a new set-top-box compatible with 4K and Netflix in Madrid, Valencia and Barcelona. The new STB, branded WHD81, also allows subscribers to access to YouTube, the streaming service Rakuten TV and 4K content. The STB has a new interface with two USB ports to watch TV content with DTT functionality.
With an additional nine TV operators joining SES’s Ultra HD trials, a total of 30 US pay-TV providers, with a combined audience of more than 10 million subscribers, are now testing SES’s 4K content delivery platform across their distribution networks. The latest wave of pay-TV system operators to ink Ultra HD trial agreements with SES […]
South Korea’s technology conglomerate Samsung is going after the cinema screen market with a massive 33.8 ft-wide (10.3 metres) LED ‘Super-S’ display, with 4K resolution and a claimed ‘peak brightness level nearly 10-times greater than that offered by conventional digital cinema projection”. Samsung installed the first unit into the Lotte Cinema World Tower complex in […]
South Korea’s giant conglomerate Samsung’s Electronics division is suggesting that its Q2 profits will be a record-breaking 14 trillion Won (about $12.1 billion), up 72 per cent. The division looks after TV displays, cellular phones and the manufacture of (DRAM and NAND) memory and solid-state modules. The actual numbers will be confirmed at the end […]
A worker at LG Display, at its Paju, South Korea, factory lost his life in an industrial accident at the site last week. Local reports say that all LCD production output has ceased at the facility, with inspectors and officials making an investigation into the matter. South Korean news sources say that the plant closure […]
Licensing body ULDAGE has confirmed the commencement of patent licensing activities under the system of a patent pool that collectively, and under fair and reasonable conditions, bundles and licenses the patents that are essential to the realisation of the UHDTV satellite broadcasting standards, to business operators that are involved in transmission and reception of UHDTV […]
South Korea’s electronics giant LG has created what it describes as the world’s first 65” – and thinnest – OLED-based wallpaper TV display for the important hotel market. While not a ‘full’ 4K model it does support high dynamic range technologies including HDR-10, Dolby Vision and Hybrid Log Gamma reception. The display, plus its 55” ‘sister’ […]
South Korea’s electronics giant LG has showcased a massive flexible screen that’s 77” across (corner to corner). It is the biggest-ever such display. The screen is designed mainly for use where flexibility is useful, in retail environments, for example. One suggestion is that the fact that it can easily be rolled up and transported in […]
Amy Shapiro, Vivicast Media’s VP/Acquisitions, Broadcast & Syndication, speaking at the SES Ultra HD Conference in London, forecast a buoyant future for the fast-growing technology. She told delegates that April 2016 saw DirecTV’s initial deployment of 4K/UHD channels, and Memphis-based Vivicast has since licensed a large number of titles to the pay-TV operator. “Only last […]
Despite there being no major sporting event in 2017 such as the European Football Championship Finals or the Olympics to drive sales of Ultra HD TV sets, UHD is now the dominant HD type, according to Nick Simon, Account Director/Consumer Electronics, GfK. Delivering a Keynote Address at the