The Kanagawa Institute of Technology (KAIT) has succeeded in switching l uncompressed 8K ultra-high-definition (UHD) live streaming faster than switching TV channels. This is done through multiple 8K cameras and stored video materials in cloud that switches the network edge portion on based on the request from the terminal devices. As for 8K/4K broadcasting which […]
Apple has given a series order to Slow Horses, a new, international drama series starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman (“Darkest Hour,” “The Dark Knight” trilogy, “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”), and adapted from Mick Herron’s CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning British espionage books. Slow Horses follows a team of British intelligence agents who serve in a […]
Despite strong interest from Sky, BT Sport will remain the exclusive home of all top flight European club football until 2024. BT has secured the rights to all 420 games of the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League and the new UEFA Europa Conference League, for a further three seasons. This represents an increase of […]
The UK Labour party has made an election pledge to give every home and business in the UK free full-fibre broadband by 2030 – if it wins the general election. The plan would mean the re-nationalising part of BT to deliver the policy, and the introduction a tax on tech giants to help pay for […]
Who’d have predicted that broadband would take centre stage in the UK election in such spectacular fashion? But then, who would have predicted much at all about the shambles that is British politics just now. The parties are united in recognising a market failure that has seen the UK languish at the bottom of developed […]
Philip Jansen, the chief executive of BT, has warned that real cost of the Labour opposition’s General Election pledge to roll out a full-fibre network nationwide and provide free broadband for all could be as high as £100 billion and that shareholders in BT will be forced to sell at a “deep discount” under a […]
Movistar and Vodafone are capturing double the number of pay-TV subscribers than rival Orange. As of September 30th, Movistar gained 52,000 new pay-TV customers in the last year to a total of 4,088,500; Vodafone achieved 47,000 additional subscribers to 1,307,000. Orange only added 26,000 to reach 711,000 customers. Orange is capturing fewer pay-TV subscribers than […]
It is unlikely that the world’s two major satellite operators, Intelsat and SES, have ever experienced such dramatic collective meltdowns in their share prices. Of course, there have been profit warnings from time to time, but nothing to compare with this week’s catastrophic collapse in their company theoretical values. As this is written, SES has […]
As the gaming landscape continues to evolve, 2019 will be a status quo challenging year for the industry, with companies taking cues from video and music industries in a bid to bring gaming to a wider audience. That’s according to the Subscription Streaming Opportunity in Gaming report from Futuresource Consulting. “When it comes to video […]
LeoSat was an imaginative Ka-band satellite concept that would have used laser connectivity to deliver and collect data from specialist business users around the planet. It was planning a super-constellation of at least 78 satellites. Initially, LeoSat had a $50 million Stage 1 financial support from Hispasat and Japan’s JSAT but further financial commitments from […]