Ed Kellie of Escapade Productions tells us he plans to use UHD and VR to make Steve Backshall’s 1 mile vertical climb for Comic Relief a truly immersive – and terrifying – experience. [bitsontherun 2KkdtXEJ-hLYU43gg]
Vanessa Case and Andrew Jackson of Blue Ant and Plimsoll, relate their experience of capturing hundreds of hours of 4k UHD natural history in their grand, two-year, Camp Zambia production. [bitsontherun YgAuCLhl-hLYU43gg]
A dive by Ampere Analysis into its proprietary consumer research in the UK and US highlights some gaps between content availability and subscriber preferences on Netflix and Amazon Prime SVoD services. Alex Varatharajah, Analyst at Ampere Analysis explains:
The Indian Premier League Media Rights Invitation to Tender (ITT) has received a massive response from the leading media and technology companies, according to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), drawing interest from broadcasters such as Star, Sky, ESPN, BT and beIN, as well as social media giants Twitter and Facebook and […]
BBC Worldwide – the main commercial arm of the Corporation – has agreed a co-production deal with one of China’s largest providers of Internet value added services, Tencent for Planet Earth II, marking the first time BBC Worldwide is co-producing a documentary with a video platform in China. Narrated by David Attenborough and produced by […]
MTG and the National Football League (NFL) have signed a new five year deal, which ensures that Nordic fans will continue to watch live games until Super Bowl LVI in 2022. A full slate of NFL regular season games, play-offs and the Super Bowl will continue to be available on MTG’s TV channels and Viaplay […]
CBS has ordered Candy Crush, a new one-hour, live action game show series based on the globally renowned mobile game franchise. CBS, Lionsgate and King will join together on the new format created and executive produced by Matt Kunitz that will be distributed domestically by CBS Television Distribution and internationally by Lionsgate. “We are huge […]
The reticence of pay-TV platforms to commit to carrying nascent 4K UHD services is leading to programming pioneers to turn to OTT delivery as they wait for operators to refine their business models, according to panellists in the ‘Here Come the UHD Channels’ session in the Sony 4K Ultra HD theatre at MIPCOM. Rian Bester, […]
According to the findings of a report – Films on television: Origin, age and circulation – released by the European Audiovisual Observatory, films produced in Europe accounted for 31 per cent of films broadcast by the TV channels of the sample during the 2014-2015 season. This share is slightly lower when considering only prime-time hours […]
Nokia and UAE-based telecommunications service provider du, used Nokia AirScale Radio Access to showcase 360 degree virtual reality (VR) video streaming for the first time in the Middle East at GITEX 2016 in Dubai. In the demonstration, 3D 360 VR content created with the Nokia OZO VR camera was streamed to head-mounted displays using Nokia […]