Starmax HD, Spain’s new HD service, has chosen GlobeCast to provide aggregation, encryption, and delivery of the full bouquet of channels broadcast to millions of households across the country. Hailed as a significant innovation in pay TV, Starmax HD has been developed from the ground up to provide the best HDTV platform to Spanish viewers […]
A new agreement means Astra’s HD+ signals will be offered to DT’s IPTV clients. ‘Entertain Sat’ is Deutsche Telekom’s (DT) service which takes satellite signals from Astra, in particular HDTV transmissions from some of Germany’s leading broadcasters which are encoded in HD Plus. Satellite viewers to HD+ have to buy a special HD+ decoder and […]
To date there has been something of a battle taking place amongst TV manufacturers as to whether to back ‘active’ or ‘passive’ 3D systems. Most users agree that ‘active’ glasses work best, but they’re not cheap. Now a French company is claiming the ‘world’s first’ all-technology 3D solution. Volfoni’s ActiveEyes units will be showcased at […]
Penthouse has confirmed the launch of Penthouse 3D – the first Pan European 3D formatted adult channel. Highlights include 100 per cent Full 3D Native HD, 30 hours of new programmes a month and programming that includes distinctive hardcore and softcore feeds. Penthouse 3D will be available on a daily basis from 11:00 pm until […]
Sky Deutschland has claimed over one million HD subscribers. The figure includes customers that have STBs to receive HD channels in the operator’s basic package, rather than those who subscribe to a specific HD service. Earlier this month, Sky said it ended December with 593,000 HD subscribers. Sky’s entry level TV package includes Discovery HD, […]
“BravaHDTV”, the First Pan-European Opera and Culture HD channel, has been added to the High Definition TV packages of the French DSL provider Bouygues Telecom. It is the latest addition to BravaHDTV’s footprint in France, which already included the ADSL operators SFR and FREE/Alice, the cable platform Numericable and the digital satellite and DSL pay […]
AVToolbox’s AVT-6441 HDMI v1.4 FAST Switcher with 3D/ARC allows for the selection of any 4 inputs to be displayed on a HDMI compliant display device. This AVT-6441 1.4 HDMI device supports all standard High Definition Television formats, including 1080p, PC formats through WUXGA and it also provides embedded HD-Audio capability, including Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD. […]
Samsung Electronics maintains the top spot in the global market for a fifth year in a row. According to DisplaySearch, the Korean manufacturer garnered a 22.1 per cent share of the world market with sales of $26 billion. LG Electronics came in second with 14.1 per cent ($16.6 billion in sales), followed by Sony at […]
DVB announced that at the 67th Meeting of the Steering Board, the DVB-3DTV specification was approved. The specification will be submitted immediately to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) for formal standardisation. BlueBook A154 ‘Frame Compatible Plano-Stereoscopic 3DTV’, (DVB-3DTV) has been published and is available for downloading from the DVB website. The Commercial Requirements for […]
BBC Worldwide’s Amanda Hill, MD of its BBC Earth and Walking with Dinosaurs projects, says BBC Worldwide is firmly behind 3D-TV for natural history factual and documentary programming. Speaking at Panasonic’s 2011 Convention in London, she said: “Innovation has always driven natural history forwards, 3D is the next stage…There’s a proven business model for 3D […]