Vivicast Media is now transmitting an all-Ultra HD channel across North America. Named UHD-1 it is being delivered from SES-3, a satellite designed to feed channels and programming into the USA’s cable head-ends. Vivicast Media says it continues to add new UHD content and titles to the rich programming line-up of feature films, television series, […]
Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, and AsiaSat, Asia’s premier satellite operator, have announced a partnership to launch a new Ultra HD channel 4K-SAT2/HVN’, AsiaSat’s second free-to-air UHD channel on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees East for Asia-Pacific. Launching on the new channel on March 1st will be 4K video content from Harmonic’s broad […]
Fresh from delivering the first-ever live 4K sports broadcast in North America on January 14th, Canadian communications and media company Rogers is claiming another first – producing and broadcasting the first-ever NHL game in 4K. The game will be a Hockey Night in Canada telecast produced by Sportsnet and available to Rogers customers with NextBox […]
Canadian multimedia company Bell is raising the 4K stakes by confirming that its Fibe TV customers in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and Québec City can now purchase Bell’s new 4K Whole Home PVR, which it describes as the most advanced 4K PVR available today. The new Fibe TV 4K Whole Home PVR is the smallest available […]
Latin America commercial TV network Globo has deployed ATEME’s TITAN stream processing system to power 4K content on its new OTT multi-screen services. The newly-launched Globo Play services are available on Smart TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets. The first TV shows to benefit from this UHD resolution will be the 2014 mini-series Dupla identidade, followed […]
Canadian communications and media company Rogers, the US National Basketball Association and UK broadcaster BT Sport are set to deliver the first live NBA game in 4K. Rogers’ Sportsnet brings Canadians the Toronto Raptors vs. the Orlando Magic on January 14th, live from The O2 Arena in London. Rogers’ cable customers can tune their NextBox […]
Satellite operator SES says its channel growth has exploded over the past year, rising by 11.3 per cent. It is now carrying 7,268 channels and says its strongest growth “is in emerging markets”. Growth is also occurring in HDTV broadcasting, and SES says that its Ultra-HD confirmed channel count now amounts to seven channels with […]
A senior representative of US consumer body Consumer Reports has questioned the need for television manufacturers to showcase 8K sets at the recent CES 2016 show in Las Vegas at a time when industry has taken great strides in raising public awareness of 4K/UHD. Writing on consumerreports.org, Glenn Derene, Director of Content Development, noted that […]
Last week at the Las Vegas CES show Panasonic unveiled an impressive addition to its Ultra-HD line-up of 4K models, a LCD unit (branded the DX900 model) described as the world’s first ‘Ultra HD Premium’ displays. The units will be available in 58” and 65” versions. Not to be undone, Samsung and LG also cite […]
Indian DTH pay-TV giant Videocon d2h is re-working how it supplies Ultra HD programming to consumers. “Our focus is on creating the highest-quality consumer experience possible. We will be focusing on providing a variety of content as the demand for 4K UHD content continues to increase and evolve. Our new 4K UHD content is another […]