Technicolor has confirmed an agreement with Tata Sky, India’s leading DTH service provider, to provide 4K set top boxes in volume early 2015. This agreement is the result of a long, strategic relationship with Tata Sky dating back to 2005, and a Technicolor 4K roadmap of solid technical innovation including 4K trials that have gone […]
Concurrent, a specilaist in multi-screen video delivery and media data intelligence solutions, has released a new version of its multi-screen origin server software which features support for Ultra-HD video content and the HEVC video compression standard (H.265). The company’s latest software enables service providers to stream the highest quality video content to a growing population […]
Celebrated technologist Dr Mike Lynch has suggested that intelligent devices could play a major role in creating video content in the future. Lynch, who was CEO of Autonomy prior to its acquisition by HP for $11 billion in 2011, made the comments during the first Royal Television Society (RTS) and Institution of Engineering and Technology […]
French multi-channel programmer AB Groupe is to make all its 14 channels available to its distribution partners in full HD. From May 13th 2014, it will cease Standard Definition distribution to concentrate on HD. The company describes the initiative as a major technical challenge that will need heavy investment for the Group and allow it […]
Ultra-HD TV household ownership will grow from less than 10 per cent of homes in the US for the next four years to 33 per cent of homes by 2020 according to a Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices (CHD) service report. David Watkins, Service Director, Connected Home Devices commented: “Demand for Ultra-HD TVs is exceeding […]
Netflix is now streaming content in 4K with the second season of its original drama House of Cards. In a blog post, Netflix said that although its catalogue of Ultra-HD content is currently small, it expects to add more 4K content and increase the number of devices it can be accessed on later this year. […]
Sky Deutschland last week carried a test transmission of a Bundesliga football match in Ultra-HD. The match, between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, was carried on an Astra satellite on April 26th, and carried at 50 fps and using the new High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) compression algorithm. Six 4K cameras were used and another […]
Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that the Vienna State Opera, one of the world’s most famous performance institutions, will use Elemental video processing solutions to stream the world’s first live production in 4K high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) delivered via MPEG-DASH over the Internet. Set for 7 […]
Sony has confirmed it would take a $145 million write-down on its Blu-ray disc business. The fresh profit warning came just 3 months after the previous guidance. Sony’s results (for 2013-14) are issued on May 14th. Sony was a pioneer for Blu-ray technology but now says it has further revised downward its anticipated profitability reflecting […]
NanoTech Entertainment has announced that 4K Studios, a NanoTech subsidiary, has entered into a global distribution agreement with Footprint Media, an international Entertainment Company and the owner of High 4K. Under the agreement, UltraFlix, NanoTech’s all 4K Ultra HD IPTV and OTT streaming video service, will immediately add 70 new 15-minutes General Entertainment episodes to […]