Sony and Vue Cinemas will be working with technical partners IDC, Eutelsat and DSAT Cinema to deliver a World Cup quarter final match and the final in Ultra-HD on 4th and 13th July, at Vue’s state-of-the-art multiplex in Westfield, London. The two matches will be streamed live via satellite from the iconic Estadio Jornalista Mario […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has released its First Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, overall attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, […]
Showing the promise of 4K TV to early adopters of next generation TV technology, Envivio has announced that Globosat, a leading content provider to cable, satellite and IPTV operators in South America, has added Envivio as one of Globosat’s partners to broadcast live the quarter, semi-final and final 2014 World Cup games in Ultra-HD. “4K […]
In what it says could be a watershed moment in the history of broadcasting, BBC Research and Development is to broadcast certain elements of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games live in Ultra-High Definition (UHD) at a public showcase in the host city. The special R&D production will be shown live in the Glasgow Science Centre […]
Spain’s TV pubcaster RTVE has launched a pilot 4K Ultra-HD channel, La pasión del Prado, a documentary channel that broadcast a 50 minute documentary shot in 4K based on the history of the Madrid gallery and the works of art housed there. To produce the documentary, TVE has used the latest compression technologies under the […]
There were strong calls from satellite executives, speaking at CASBAA’s Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, to pull their fingers out and start transmitting in Ultra-HD, even with the less than perfect transmission protocols currently in place. Thomas Wrede, VP/broadcast systems at SES, while confirming that Ultra-HD would likely be a mass-market proposition by 2019-2020, also […]
Technology trade association the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced updated core characteristics for Ultra High-Definition (UHD) TVs, monitors and projectors for the home. As devised and approved by CEA’s Video Division Board, these characteristics build on the first-generation UHD characteristics released by the CEA in October 2012. These expanded display characteristics (CEA’s Ultra High-Definition […]
EBU, the provider of the live sports delivery platform to broadcasters worldwide, is carrying over its satellite capacities worldwide of all World Cup matches in HD format and also all of the 4K television production of the 2014 tournament in Brazil. The 4K live coverage includes the matches on June 28th (Round of 16), July […]
The BBC has started its Ultra-HD closed trials from the World Cup tournament in Brazil. The BBC Research & Development department has partnered with Arqiva for the trials that will use the latest DVB-DASH profile IP. In a blog post Phil Layton, Head of Broadcast & Connected Systems at the BBC, outlined what the trials […]
Many of the world’s broadcasters are looking to the next stage in transmission, namely so-called Ultra-HDTV (usually called 4K). But NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, is making a huge show in Brazil of its ultimate plan, which is to see 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ start broadcasting in 2020. NHK is capturing some of the current FIFA World […]