Vodafone and Orange, Telefónica’s two main rivals, have both reached deals with Mediapro to broadcast the beIN Sport La Liga channel on their respective pay-TV platforms over the next three seasons. From next year until 2019 their subscribers will be able to watch football matches from La Liga (eight every week and one of the […]
Findings from Limelight Networks annual State of Digital Downloads report – which studies consumer perceptions and behaviours around digital content – suggest that nearly half (45 per cent) of consumers are more likely to download digital content of all types than they were a year ago. And the devices to which they are saving movies, […]
Virgin Media has teamed up with NBCUniversal International to bring its customers reality TV favourites through hayu, the new on-demand app, available immediately. The first of its kind, hayu – an all-reality service fully integrated with social media – launched as an online app in the UK in March, allowing reality TV fans to keep […]
SES Platform Services has entered into a long-term partnership with India’s leading media conglomerate, Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), to launch a new free-to-air television channel in Germany in both SD and HD by mid-year via SES satellites at Astra 19.2 degrees East. This new channel for the German market will bring Bollywood films produced […]
Amos Rozenberg of Paramax Films reveals plans for a UHD post production studio in Bali and emphasises the different creative approach that needs to be brought to UHD shooting and post production. [bitsontherun kg36SKs4-ni7dlelE]
Peter Alexander of NASA TV talks about the amazing content from the space station in UHD and explains it is available for anyone who want to trial their UHD equipment and processes. [bitsontherun MFZTe0ji-ni7dlelE]
Rene Delwel reveals the post production challenges and that it is necessary to rethink the entire process. [bitsontherun lY6heVIL-ni7dlelE]
Michel Chabrol, Director Digital Cinema/4K UHD Eutelsat, talks about UHD compression and transmission and near term prospects for the UHD channel market. [bitsontherun zRmsv3j9-ni7dlelE]
A pub company in the southern England county of Surrey has been found guilty of illegally airing Sky Sports in three of its pubs and ordered to pay a record £120,600 (€150,000) in fines and costs following an investigation by the Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). Merlin Inns Ltd, based in Cranleigh in Surrey and […]
Bertrand Loyer talks about being a UHD early adopter – using 4K since 2009 – for Saint Thomas’s wild life and natural disaster shooting. He says UHD and particularly HDR is an evolution in the viewers relationship with the screen with ‘as the eye sees’ pictures for the first time and ability to naturally follow […]