Content services protection and enhancement specialist Viaccess-Orca’s Adaptive Sentinel dual card and cardless conditional access system (CAS) has been selected by French telco Orange (of which it is a subsidiary) to strengthen the security of its new Ultra High Definition (UHD) set-top box (STB). According to Viaccess-Orca, Adaptive Sentinel ensures best-in-class software and hardware security […]
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) and Intel Corporation have confirmed that ULTRA, SPHE’s 4K movie streaming service, will debut on computers powered by 7th Gen Intel Core processors beginning Q1 in 2017. Coinciding with the expanded availability of the service, ULTRA will add new features such as 48 hour rentals and free 10 minute previews, […]
Ultra-HD/4K is hardly mass-market just yet, but already many industry players are looking to the ‘next big thing’ in TV’s never-ending road to higher resolution. Now, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, along with the nation’s two giant electronics specialists, Sony and Panasonic, are to cooperate in order to further develop technology for TV’s capable to handle […]
TV manufacturers are offering High Dynamic Range (HDR) enhancement in 4K TV sets to increase their market appeal, but many are still struggling to choose between one of two new standards: Dolby Vision and HDR10. As an open standard, HDR10 allows firmware updates and has the support of more manufacturers than Dolby Vision, finds ABI […]
It’s a scheme that’s guaranteed to give a highly-personalised Virtual Reality experience from some hundreds of kilometres out in space. SpaceVR has raised some crowd-funding cash to start building Overview-1, a specially designed satellite that will be launched next June up to the International Space Station (on a scheduled CRS-12 mission) where it will then […]
As widely expected, Sky’s German operation will launch two Ultra-HD sports channels on SES Astra’s 19.2 degrees East position shortly. While the precise date has not been unveiled, Sky Deutschland will show one game per each Bundesliga match day on Sky Sport Bundesliga UHD and selected games from the UEFA Champions League on Sky Sport […]
Starting in autumn 2016, DFL (Deutsche Fussball Liga) – Germany’s top flight football association – will cover games in Ultra High Definition quality. Following the launch, plans are initially to produce one game per Bundesliga match day in UHD which will be broadcast by national TV partner Sky Deutschland. Sky has announced the introduction of […]
Dolby Laboratories and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) have announced the first slate of titles now available in UHD with Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) imaging. Dolby Vision titles now available for purchase and rental on OTT service VUDU include the all-new release The Huntsman: Winter’s War, and fan favourites Lucy, Oblivion, and Lone […]
Vodafone Spain is launching a 4K service for bars and restaurants in an attempt to increase its market penetration. The company will use dedicated 4K UHD STB and with La Liga as the main content to capture subscribers among the 260,000 bars and restaurants in the country. Currently the company is serving 15,000. Vodafone will […]
Amino has secured a software licensing contract to provide its Enable TV device software to PCCW Media, a fully integrated multimedia and entertainment group in Hong Kong, to support its drive to deliver new 4K experiences via a new service of its Now TV PCCW Media has launched the new “Now One” integrated 4K UHD […]