Japan’s NHK public broadcaster is to work with the British Museum on an 8K video project featuring the mysteries of the acclaimed Edo period woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai’s works are world-famous and have wielded influence across the arts from the paintings of Monet and other Impressionists to the musical works of Debussy. NHK says […]
NASA is producing what it says is the first-ever live 4K video stream from space during a session at the 2017 NAB Show. The panel is co-produced by NAB Show, NASA, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will explore how advanced imaging and cloud technologies are taking scientific research and filmmaking to the next level. […]
SES has been supplying test Ultra-HD transmissions over the US for some months. Vivicast Media is its partner, and Vivicast used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce its first contracts, with a pair of multichannel video programming distributors to supply a bouquet of ten UHD channels. Marquette-Adams of Oxford, Wisconsin and Highlands Cable […]
Vodafone Spain is to air the Real Madrid vs Barcelona football match (dubbed ‘El Clasico’) in Ultra HD on April 23rd. Subscribers with a 4K-equipped TV set, the new Vodafone 4K TiVo STB and the Vodafone Fútbol or Sport package will be able to watch it in the UHD format. Vodafone is strongly relying on […]
Sky Sports will show Test cricket in Ultra HD this summer when England take on South Africa in their Test series across July and August. In a world first for Test cricket, Sky Q customers in the UK and Ireland can look forward to every ball of the four-match series in Ultra HD. The four […]
Security solutions specialist Inside Secure is working with forensic watermarking solutions provider ContentArmor to offer customers a pre-integrated software development kit (SDK) for secure player, meeting the stringent security requirements for early-window and UHD movies. Inside Secure’s SAFEplayer Ultra supports the widest range of devices, including Android 2.3+, Android STB, Android TV, iOS 6.0+, tvOS, […]
Marco Pellegrinato, Director R&D & Innovation at Italy’s RTI – Mediaset Group, has suggested that the country could adopt an interim HD HDR phase between 2018 and 2022 over digital terrestrial television prior to moving to Ultra HD HDR. Speaking during a panel session on ‘Italy is Busy with Ultra HD’ in the Sony 4K […]
INSIGHT TV used MIPTV to announce a major carriage and distribution deal with Luxembourg-based M7 Group. The agreement will see INSIGHT TV supply both its UHD and HD channels to M7 for broadcast on CanalDigitaal (Netherlands), two Belgian cable networks, Skylink in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and HD Austria, beginning April 4th. “This announcement […]
Fashion TV has launched a dedicated Ultra High Definition channel, FTV UHD, on Eutelsat’s popular HOTBIRD neighbourhood. Fashion TV is leveraging HOTBIRD’s position to offer exclusive Ultra HD content to cable and IPTV networks across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. FTV UHD uses HEVC encoding with 10 bits of colour depth (one billion […]
Japanese TV households will be fully UHD by 2025, according to Masayuki Suga, Deputy Director, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Delivering a Keynote address on ‘Japan’s Road Map for 4K Ultra HD and Beyond’ at MIPTV’s Sony 4K Ultra HD Theatre, Suga told delegates that in 2012, a study group had been on the […]