Eurosport will deliver live 3D broadcasts of two major sporting events in the summer across Europe via the Astra Satellite System. The French Open and the London 2012 Olympic Games will be broadcast live on Eurosport 3D from the ASTRA 19.2 degrees East orbital position. Both events will be transmitted via a transponder formerly utilised […]
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has set out new recommendations that will make television programming, picture quality and viewing comfort more enhanced. The new ITU Recommendations on 3DTV will provide the much needed tools to evaluate, make, and exchange 3DTV programmes, the UN agency said. The new standards are, according to the ITU, being submitted […]
Amazon’s LOVEFiLM has confirmed the launch of HD streaming. The HD functionality will allow members of LOVEFiLM – Europe’s largest subscription service instantly streaming films and TV series over the internet and sending DVDs and games by post – to stream films and TV series on demand and for no extra charge in HDTV resolutions […]
The annual Cisco VNI Forecast expects worldwide devices and connections to grow to almost 19 billion_ nearly doubling from 2011 to 2016. The Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast (2011-2016), the company’s ongoing initiative to forecast and analyse Internet Protocol (IP) networking growth and trends worldwide quantitatively projects the significant amount of IP traffic expected […]
The Associated Press has commenced delivering video news in high definition to customers, culminating a phased rollout that began last year. AP completed the transition to HD ahead of the 2012 London Olympics in July and the U.S presidential elections in November. It’s the largest rollout of HD by any news agency globally, and is […]
Modern Times Group’s (MTG) Viasat Broadcasting in Norway and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) have entered into an agreement regarding the sublicensing of the rights to broadcast live 3D coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games. Viasat will broadcast more than 100 hours of live coverage from the London 2012 Olympic Games on its Viasat […]
For the eighth consecutive year Orange France will be bringing tennis fans all the matches and breaking news from the Roland Garros tournament through their multi-platform system. Orange will have exclusive rights to distribute the ADSL multi-courts offer on mobile and TV produced and broadcast by France Televisions, which includes up to 7 event channels […]
Sales of 3D TVs are on the rise in the US as first quarter volumes grew nearly 74 per cent in units and 64 per cent in revenue over last year, according to market research company The NPD Group. 3D TVs accounted for 11 per cent of all flat-panel TV sales in Q1, nearly double […]
Eurosport will broadcast the 2012 French Open – Roland Garros Live, in 3D, via Sky in the UK market. The Global sports channel will broadcast a Live 3D feed from Centre Court at Roland Garros from May 28th to June 10th and it will be available to UK sports fans, non exclusively, via Sky’s 3D […]
Sky Brazil, owned by DirecTV, has just added A&E Network’s Biography Channel in HD to its line up, taking the DTH operator to 42 HD channels, and “the greatest number and variety in HD in Latin America” said the company. The Biography Channel has been on air in standard def since 2007 and is available […]