This summer’s football World Cup is proving to be the most accessible in the tournament’s history, with broadcast and streaming services available on up to 5.9 billion screens globally. This is according to research firm Ovum, which reveals that PCs, tablets, and smartphones are providing alternatives to conventional TV viewing, accounting for 57 per cent […]
Findings from market research and consulting firm NSR’s newly released Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 7th Edition suggest that by 2023, nearly 300 Ultra-HD TV channels will be broadcast globally by DTH operators, with Ultra-HD present in every region worldwide within the next decade. This exceptional growth will
Satellite operator SES’s new CEO, Karim Michel Sabbagh, in a major speech at the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, said that despite pay-TV DTH being challenged in some markets by IP-based and OTT supply of programming, there remained many reasons to be optimistic (about satellite). “The consumer is jumping into 4K,” he said. “Simulcasting […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that Eurovision – the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) distributor of premium sports and news events – is broadcasting the 2014 FIFA World Cup to audiences throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia in Ultra-HD and HD via SES satellites. Eurovision is distributing matches live in Ultra HD to its […]
Sony’s decline over these past few years has been tragic to watch. But the reduction in revenues, profits and returns to shareholders means that Sony will probably be kicked out of Japan’s newly-established JPX-Nikkei-400 market index. A decision will be made in August. Meanwhile, Sony itself is hoping that World Cup mania will help shift […]
This year at Broadcast Asia, visitors to the DVB stand can witness the power and flexibility of DVB-T2. In a groundbreaking demo, DVB-T2 is used to deliver a wide range of resolutions from Ultra-HD down to the smaller screen resolutions for mobile devices including smartphones. Using the second-generation terrestrial transmission standard, an HEVC encoded UHD […]
Thomson Video Networks has announced that satellite operator Eutelsat is launching an Ultra-HD demonstration channel for Southeast Asia and Australia, based on the ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video system and Sapphire MPEG stream server. Broadcast via Eutelsat’s year-old EUuteksat 70B satellite, the demo channel will leverage the advanced high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) capabilities of the Thomson […]
Eutelsat Communications working in partnership with ST Teleport, one of Asia’s leading full-service satellite, fibre and IP communications solutions providers, will be introducing its 4k TV channel on the Eutelsat 70B satellite that reaches across Southeast Asia and Australia. The content displayed by Eutelsat’s new 4k channel is encoded in HEVC by ATEME and Thomson […]
South American viewers lucky enough to own a suitable 4K-enabled display can receive some of FIFA World Cup games in Ultra-HD, thanks to the pairing of Broadcom-supplied BCM7445 SoC chipsets using HEVC with Elemental’s encoding system. The signals will go out on Globosat’s SPORTV channel over Brazil and beyond. Moreover, the transmissions will be captured […]
Driven by the World Cup, 530,000 TVs were sold last month in France, representing a 25 per cent growth year on year. A total of 2.3 million TVs have been sold since the beginning of the year. After a two year decrease, a study