UK DTT service Freeview has unveiled a new advertising campaign ahead of the World Cup aimed at promoting the idea that there’s more to TV than football – even during the World Cup. The multi-platform campaign, entitled ‘Love or Hate Football,’ centres on a new TV ad, challenging viewers to watch whatever it is they […]
LG Electronics has revealed that more than one million units of its webOS-enabled Smart+ TVs have been sold since the launch of the line-up in March. Featuring an intuitive user experience unmatched by any smart TV platform on the market today, LG expects sales to reach 10 million units by the first half of 2015. […]
Osaka-based Kansai TV says it is ready to transmit 4K World Cup content over-the-air terrestrially, and helped by Elemental Technology’s encoding/decoding solutions at 14.5 Mb/s at 60 frames-per-second. Kansai is part of the Fuji Network System. Tests carried out last week, using the 2014 Osaka Women’s Marathon, filmed in 4K, and using 64QAM modulation worked […]
Portugal Telecom (through its Meo brand), Portuguese public broadcaster RTP and manufacturer Samsung have teamed up for what they claim will be the first global Ultra-HD live broadcast, simultaneously on two platforms (Fibre Optic and Satellite). The exclusive technology preview will take place during the Portugal vs Greece friendly football match at the Estadio da […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications is ramping up its Ultra-HD activity with the launch of Europe’s first demo channel encoded in HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and broadcasting at 50 frames per second with 10-bit colour depth (one billion colours – HEVC Main 10 profile). According to Eutelsat, these three parameters are key for creating a […]
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic says it is exiting the OLED screen market. Panasonic blames the low yield and thus poor profitability on production of OLEDs. Panasonic says it is working to sell its existing OLED production division to Japan Display Inc, claimed to be the world’s largest producer of liquid crystal displays for smartphones and […]
DTH player Sun Direct, which currently broadcasts mainly standard definition channels to India from just four transponders, is to increase this by adding nine new transponders. However, Sun Direct has to wait for the new MEASAT 3b satellite be launched, and that craft is currently sitting on a pad at Arainespace’s rocket facility in French […]
Envivio, a provider of software-based video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that its 4K Ultra HD compression technology is being used by French broadcaster TDF for live streaming of the French Open 2014 tennis championship to compatible 4K TV sets in France. This represents the world’s first DTT broadcast video transmission delivered in 4K, […]
Chip-set supplier Broadcom is enjoying what its President/CEO Scott McGregor has described as “significant progress” in its home, hand (telecoms) and infrastructure/data divisions. “These three core businesses of the company, looking into each of those over the last year, have all made significant progress in each of the areas. In the home business, Broadcom has […]
Sony Corp could take on an equity partner in its TV unit, which has racked up losses every year for a decade, but it is not thinking about selling or exiting the business, its chief executive has said. Sony plans to turn its struggling TV unit into a separate entity – Sony Visual Products Inc […]