Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

Canada’s first UltraViolet SuperTicket

Cineplex Entertainment and Warner Bros have announced that director Guillermo del Toro’s highly anticipated summer action adventure, Pacific Rim, will offer Canada’s first SuperTicket. This is a first-ever bundled offering in Canada, and allows movie-goers to purchase a movie admission ticket and pre-order the UltraViolet digital version of Pacific Rim at the same time. The […]

July 8, 2013

Samsung: Ultra-HD mainstream by 2017

Ultra-high definition TV is on track to become a mass-market proposition by 2017, according to Vassilis Seferidis, Director, European Business Development, Samsung Electronics. Speaking at the Futuresource Entertainment Summit 2013 in London, Seferidis based his prediction on the take-up of high definition since its introduction. He noted that major operators had launched HD services when […]

July 5, 2013By Colin Mann

Fame for Ultra HD rollout

A key decision to cooperate on plotting a course for Ultra HD rollout in Europe has been agreed. Under the banner of FAME – the Forum for Advanced Media in Europe – public and private broadcasters, consumer and professional electronics manufacturers, satellite operators and national HD Forums gathered at the EBU in Geneva for a […]

July 4, 2013

Russia’s Tricolor testing Ultra HD

Russian pay-TV operator Tricolor TV is planning to test-broadcast using Ultra-HD technology, according to press agency Tass. Ultra-HD offers high-resolution 3840 x 2160 pixels, and the Tass report says that Tricolor will use a transponder on Eutelsat 36A craft, and transmitting in MPEG4 at 40 Mb/s. Test material, comprising a 14-minute movie shot by Russia […]

June 28, 2013By Chris Forrester

Toshiba Ultra HD TVs for US market

Toshiba has revealed that the L9300U Series of 4K Ultra HD TVs will be available for purchase in the US this August, starting at $4,999 for the 58-inch model. The new Toshiba L9300U TVs are powered by Toshiba’s proprietary CEVO 4K Quad+Dual Core Processor, delivering the highest quality 4K image processing, including Resolution Restoration to […]

June 28, 2013

Intelsat and Ericsson demo 4K via satellite

Intelsat, the global provider of satellite services,and Ericsson has announced the successful demonstration of a true 4K Ultra High Definition (UHD), end-to-end video transmission over satellite to Turner Broadcasting’s facilities in Atlanta, Ga.  This was the first transmission of a UHD signal over satellite in North America, and the demonstration proves that the satellite delivery […]

June 26, 2013

Sony trials 4K at Wimbledon

Sony is filming part of this year’s Wimbledon Tennis Championships in 4K. The footage will be shot on Centre Court and Court Number One during the first round of the competition. It is the first time that action from Wimbledon has been captured in the Ultra HD format. Sony’s F55 cameras and an NEX-FS700 will […]

June 25, 2013

BSkyB: “Early days” for Ultra-HD

Chris Johns, BSkyB’s chief engineer/broadcast strategy, has said that the pay-TV broadcaster has no imminent Ultra-HD plans but is examining closely its delivery options, and stressed the need for testing of the technology so that when Sky does launch 4K it is “done right”. “We’ve no plans to launch a U-HD service at this point […]

June 24, 2013By Chris Forrester

Measat, Ericsson UHDTV satellite contribution trial

MEASAT Satellite Systems has begun trials with communications technology and services specialist Ericsson to demonstrate the ability to provide live Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV) video contribution over MEASAT’s satellite network. According to Ericsson, as UHDTV gains momentum and operators explore how it can become part of the future roadmap, there remains the challenge of […]

June 14, 2013

Japan’s NTT West to trial 4k streaming to STB

Japanese telco NTT West will stream 4k video over the Internet to set-top boxes this week, in what it claims is the world’s first public test of the technology. NTT will conduct a three-day trial in Tokyo during a digital media seminar from June 12th to June 14th. The telco said it will use the […]

June 12, 2013