Italian public broadcaster RAI has partnered with satellite operator Eutelsat on a project to launch Ultra-HD trials. Although no details have been revealed, it is known that RAI has acquired the TV rights to air 23 matches of the EURO 2016 football tournament this summer in France. It is likely that some of the matches, […]
Middle East and North Africa pay-TV provider OSN is ramping up capacity on the powerful Eutelsat 8 West B satellite operated by Eutelsat Communications. Additional capacity at the Middle East’s flagship TV neighbourhood will support more expansion for OSN, including new High Definition channels and the introduction of Ultra-HD services. OSN will take advantage of […]
Some of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games will be covered in 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ (for Japan), and there will be 4K Ultra HD versions created for testing and comparison purposes. The 8K versions for Japan will include ‘immersive’ audio using what Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS) describe as “3D 22.2 channel audio surround sound”. Some 130 […]
Fashion One 4K has gone live on YahSat over the Middle East and North Africa region, and is fully free to view. Described as the “World’s first global Ultra HD channel” the broadcaster showcases fashion, entertainment and lifestyle programming, and all shot in 4K. Fashion One says it has been upgrading its production format from […]
The abrupt weakening of global demand for TV sets, combined with continued LCD capacity expansion, caused an oversupply in the market in the second half of 2015. This shift to oversupply has resulted in extremely steep LCD TV panel price declines, but it has been
Reed MIDEM has revealed highlights of an extensive 4K Ultra HD programme at MIPTV which takes place in Cannes, France, from April 4th – 7th. The content-rich programme with full 4K projection, includes 12 conference sessions and a keynote speech on April 5th delivered by Bill Baggelaar, Senior VP Technology, Sony Pictures Entertainment. Bill Baggelaar […]
UK spectrum regulator Ofcom is examining future demand for satellite bandwidth over the UK in a new Space Spectrum Strategy consultation document issued March 1st (and which closes for comments on May 10th this year). One of its key findings, which is open to comment, is that it sees there being enough satellite spectrum – […]
Netflix has been streaming 4K content since April 2014 and when actual 4K content was extremely thin on the ground. Happily there are now plenty of consumers with Ultra-HD (UHD) displays and last week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona saw one of its VP/interface innovation, Chris Jaffe, promise delegates that there would be plenty of […]
SPI International, the global pay-TV operator and content aggregator, which broadcasts general entertainment channel FUNBOX 4K/UHD, has acquired native 4K productions from UMAX and AVA, Korea’s top 4K content suppliers. The deal will boost SPI International’s growing 4K catalogue and will include six features shot in native 4K. Among the acquired titles there is The […]
ATEME has announced a new high video quality and high density 4K and HD transcoding solution in partnership with Dell and Intel. This solution brings together ATEME’s video compression skills, Intel’s Visual Compute Accelerator (VCA) PCIe card, and Dell’s optimised hardware, delivering 200 HD channels with premium video quality in a 1RU server, with 5W […]