Huawei is partnering with wireless multicast specialist Expway to form a joint working group to promote standardisation of end user video experience, with a specific focus on improving the quality of mobile video. The pair say the partnership ushers in a new era for the video industry. According to the cooperation agreement, Huawei and Expway […]
Richard Lindsay-Davies, Chief Executive of the DTG, has suggested the digital media technology innovation collaboration centre will consider the standardisation of Virtual Reality (VR). Having recently returned from consumer technology show CES in Las Vegas, where he observed the emergence of VR, Lindsay-Davies told delegates at a Westminster Media Forum Keynote Seminar on TV Convergence […]
Technicolor has decided to license its HEVC IP portfolio directly to device manufacturers rather than through the HEVC Advance patent pool in order to accelerate adoption of the standard. Since the emergence of the HEVC Advance pool, various players have delayed adoption of HEVC technologies and redirected their investment into alternative technologies. However, HEVC is […]
Without making specific allegations, the Future of TV Coalition – a diverse group of US programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers formed to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – has intimated that Google may well have had advanced warning of the FCC’s plans to introduce […]
A diverse group of programmers, content creators, civic groups and television providers have launched the ‘Future of TV Coalition’ to celebrate and promote the thriving innovation that is revolutionising the video viewing experience – giving American audiences more and better choices than ever before of what, where, when and how to watch TV programming. The […]
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) – a not for profit company founded by UK pubcasters ITV, BBC and Channel 4 – has unveiled a technical standard for the delivery of Ultra High Definition (UHD) programmes. The new standard is supported by the publication of two guides for DPP Members: a UHD Production Workflow Guide, and […]
Heralding a new generation of broadband services, CableLabs, the research and development lab for the cable industry, has confirmed that five cable modem vendors have achieved the first DOCSIS 3.1 certifications. Newly certified products from Askey, Castlenet, Netgear, Technicolor and Ubee Interactive provide cable operators with critical components for a new generation of DOCSIS 3.1 […]
A senior representative of US consumer body Consumer Reports has questioned the need for television manufacturers to showcase 8K sets at the recent CES 2016 show in Las Vegas at a time when industry has taken great strides in raising public awareness of 4K/UHD. Writing on consumerreports.org, Glenn Derene, Director of Content Development, noted that […]
Operators need to get G.fast – a specification designed to provide gigabit broadband connection speeds – right if they want to take advantage of the huge opportunity available to enable and deliver up-and-coming technologies to consumers, Kevin Foster, the Chairman of Broadband Forum (and General Manager Access and CPE Innovation at BT) has warned. Speaking […]
With its first live over-the-air broadcast of 4K Ultra HD TV with high dynamic range (HDR) using the new ATSC 3.0 Candidate Standard, digital television pioneer LG Electronics (LG) is ushering in the era of next-generation television broadcasting at CES 2016. The landmark broadcast, from Las Vegas station KHMP-TV’s transmitter on Nevada’s Black Mountain, is […]