Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

Netflix Spain to launch with 4K content

Netlflix will launch its streaming service in Spain next month with Ultra-HD content available from day one. Content director Neil Hunt revealed in a press interview that Netflix’s price plans in Spain will start with a basic subscription of €7.99 a month to access the service with one device on SD; €8.99 a month for […]

September 8, 2015From David Del Valle in Madrid

Harmonic, Intelsat partner for UHD demo channel

Responding to growing consumer demand for Ultra High Definition (UHD) content and televisions, video delivery infrastructure specialist Harmonic and satellite services provider Intelsat are partnering to launch HVN Intelsat UHD, a linear UHD demonstration channel for the North American TV markets. This channel will be broadcast via Intelsat’s Galaxy 13 satellite located at 127 degrees […]

September 8, 2015

LG: “OLED TVs will take us to profits”

Electronics giant LG says that its television division will move back into profits during Q3 this year, and helped by its fast-growing OLED UHD output. “LG’s TV business was in trouble for the first six months of the year. However, our TV business will turn profitable from the third quarter of the year thanks to […]

September 8, 2015By Chris Forrester

NHK to showcase 8K display at IBC

Japan’s public broadcaster NHK will have what it describes as the world’s first 85” 8K LCD (“Super Hi-Vision”) display on show at IBC next week. The display will also have High Dynamic Range (HDR) technology built in. The unit’s screen displays 7680 horizontal pixels x 4320 pixels height.  The contrast ratio is claimed to be […]

September 4, 2015By Chris Forrester

Sony 4K mobile screen

Sony has unveiled its first smartphone to feature a 4K-resolution screen. The Xperia Z5 Premium model can both capture video in Ultra-HD and also play it back on its 14cm display without downgrading the footage. Sony’s mobile division loses money – and has done for considerable time – but its camera components are profitable. Sony […]

September 3, 2015

More UHD channels for Europe

The news that FashionOne has now launched in Europe as well as over North America and South America on SES satellites ups the total number of Ultra-HD channels either on air or shortly  to launch over Europe . New York-based Fashion 4K is now transmitting from SES’s 19.2 degrees slot reaching 116 million potential homes – […]

September 3, 2015By Chris Forrester

Fashion One launches UHD channel

Satellite communication services provider MEASAT Satellite Systems and New York-based fashion, entertainment and lifestyle television network Fashion One Television have launched what they say is the first English language Ultra HD channel in the world, Fashion One 4K, on the MEASAT-3a satellite. Distributed free-to-air through the MEASAT-3a satellite at the 91.5 degrees East video orbital […]

September 2, 2015

LG and partners demo HDR content

LG Electronics (LG) will demonstrate High Dynamic Range (HDR)-enabled TV and broadcasting technologies in cooperation with a host of high-profile broadcasters and content providers at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. The highlight will be a demonstration of BBC Research & Development’s HDR content transmitted to LG 4K OLED TVs. According to LG, the […]

September 2, 2015

4K display prices tumble

Consumers can already save thousands on the latest Ultra-HD televisions compared to very similar models of a year ago. Both of South Korea’s giant display manufacturers, LG and Samsung, have cut prices ahead of next week’s IFA electronics show in Berlin.

September 1, 2015By Chris Forrester

Moto GP in 4K

Dorna Sports, the commercial and television rights holder for Moto GP, collaborated with BT Sport, its UK broadcasting partner, to produce live coverage of the Octo British Grand Prix at Silverstone in Ultra High Definition. The event marked the first time a MotoGP World Championship event was covered live in Ultra HD, with viewers of […]

September 1, 2015By Colin Mann