The French-backed ‘4-Ever’ research and development project has come to an end. Its nine core partners include Orange, France Télévisions, Globecast and ATEME, and the focus was very much on 4K/Ultra HD transmission and in particular how UHD could advance with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and higher frame rates. The research project, under the leadership of […]
SMPTE, the organisation whose standards work has supported a century of advances in entertainment technology, will be working together with the Digital Production Partnership (DPP) on a joint pilot specification project to create an Interoperable Master Format (IMF) specification for broadcast and online. “One of the original DPP core objectives was to achieve a common, […]
A new 400Gbps single-carrier based technology solution to transmit vast streams of data over core fibre-optic networks, the ‘motorways’ of the Internet, has been developed by researchers at the BT Labs in Adastral Park, Ipswich. BT is demonstrating the optical network technology at its Innovation Week 2017 event at Adastral Park which runs from 12th […]
The SAT>IP Alliance, a non-profit organisation responsible for defining marketing and technology strategies related to the SAT>IP standard, has announced that Irdeto and Verimatrix have joined the Alliance. Both companies will strengthen the group’s work in the area of content security. “With the integration of CAS-to-DRM solutions into the SAT>IP standard we are making it […]
Innovid, the video marketing platform for advertisers to engage consumers across all screens and channels, has announced the release of its 2017 Global Video Benchmarks Report. The report details findings from a year-long study analysing thousands of video campaigns with billions of impressions across 200+ global brands. The goal of the Global Video Benchmarks series […]
In five years 90 per cent of the existing 37.4 million TV sets in Spain will become obsolete with Spaniards being obliged to renew them or buy an adapter due to the implementation of the DVB-T2 standard. Currently, just 10 per cent of the TV sets existing in the market are ready for the new […]
Finnish telco DNA has announced that its remaining DVB-T format pay-TV channels will switch to DVB-T2 technology on May 17th. The majority of terrestrial-network pay-TV channels and all HD channels are already being broadcast with the new technology. The greater efficiency of DVB-T2 technology increases broadcasting capacity and enables the transmission of HD-quality broadcasts over […]
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has declared that teeing up the ATSC 3.0 transmission standard is a priority, suggesting it has the potential to let broadcasters offer much better service in a variety of ways. Addressing the NAB Show in Las Vegas, Pai noted that the convergence of Media, Entertainment, and Technology—the M.E.T. Effect—had created a […]
Virgin TV’s Director, Digital Entertainment Product Development, Louise Fussell and Dolby Laboratories’ Director of Imaging Standards and Technology, Simon Gauntlett have been appointed to the DTG Council – the governing body of the DTG, the UK’s unique self-funded collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology. Louise joined Virgin’s Customer Experience team in 2009 as […]
The Ultra HD Forum, the global organisation defining industry best practices for the introduction of technologies to facilitate the ultra-high-definition (UHD) viewing experience, has released the UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3 including a new forensic watermarking chapter. This chapter is the result of the collaboration between leading watermarking technologies providers. In addition to an overview […]