UK pay-TV broadcasters Sky and Virgin TV have secured rights to air this year’s MTV EMAs 2018 in ultra-HD. The MTV EMAs 2018 celebrates musical artists from around the world and will broadcast live from Bilbao, Spain, across MTV’s 60 international TV channels and digital platforms. Sky will take the MTV EMAs UHD feed for […]
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, and Gearhouse Broadcast partnered to deliver Australia’s first UHD live broadcast. All six hours of UHD content from the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 for supercars – the country’s annual, premier touring car event – were broadcast live without any advertising breaks. The 1,000-kilometre race was televised on Foxtel’s newly launched channel 444, with routing […]
dock10, the UK television facility, has announced a major investment to build a new broadcast network to support the future of television production. Connected to the top-spec 200Gbps network will be the facility’s ten television studios and their galleries, more than fifty post production suites, ingest, control rooms and the data centre. Incorporating innovative technology […]
After declining unit-shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6 per cent year over year in 2018, with additional 1.4 per cent growth in 2019, according to a new report from business information provider IHS Markit. Of the 226 million TVs expected
According to Fateha Begum, associate director, connected devices, IHS Markit, adults under the age of 35, and particularly males, are most interested in UHD content when choosing a video service. “More than a third of video subscribers across the five markets surveyed – the US, UK, Germany, Japan and Brazil – indicated that UHD content […]
Nearly 50 per cent of all TVs shipped worldwide will, by year-end, be 4K, according to a market tracking report from Futuresource Consulting. The report, which includes TVs, broadcast coverage, STB installed base, Blu-ray players, Blu-ray software, digital transactional video and digital subscriptions, focuses on the latest key developments and future consumer trends in 4K. […]
Opera aficionados will now have access to the most celebrated Italian operas on their TV screens following a startegic deal between media company SPI and RAI, the biggest public channel broadcaster of Italy. SPI will firstly present the famous opera Carmen on their FunBox UHD channel and TV app that will be accessible to all […]
Australian pay-TV operator Foxtel will create Australian television history by broadcasting the nation’s iconic motor race, the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 and Supercars in 4K ultra high definition. After intensive testing at the RABBLE.club Sandown 500 over the weekend of September 15th-16th, Foxtel is now ready to show key events of the Bathurst Supercars weekend, […]
Communications technologist Nokia and France Télévisions, the French National Public TV broadcaster, are to showcase the results of a proof-of-concept demonstration of what the pair say is the world’s first 8K Ultra High Definition TV streaming in real conditions over 5G at IBC 2018. Nokia and France Télévisions’ ‘Innovation and Prospective department’ conducted the tests […]
UK multiplay operator Virgin Media is launching what it says is the UK’s first dedicated ultra HD entertainment channel, which will start broadcasting from September 17th. The Virgin TV Ultra HD channel will be exclusively available for Virgin TV Full House and VIP customers with a V6 set-top box. These customers can tune into a […]