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MediaFirst UHD E2E solution

Ericsson Media Solutions has launched its MediaFirst End-to-End Ultra High Definition (UHD) solution, suggesting it is the industry’s first software-based, multi-application media processing and encoding platform to deliver UHD content from camera to consumer, across the entire media delivery landscape. Noting Ericsson ConsumerLab TV and Media research which highlights how TVs with higher picture quality […]

April 12, 2018

Intel core to power INSIGHT TV premium 4K UHD

INSIGHT TV, one of the world’s largest UHD broadcasters and producer of native UHD HDR content covering action sports, entertainment, and lifestyle, is creating a Windows Store Application that will allow true 4K UHD content to be streamed to any Universal Windows Platform (UWP) device. The new app is being built on the latest 8th […]

April 11, 2018

LG: 10m OLED screens by 2020

Large-screen display specialist LG says its new OLED factory output should mean production volumes of some 10 million units by 2020, and if the plans work out it could even mean 20 million units. Large Display Monitor, a newsletter, quotes a report in Japan’s Nikkei that half of the company’s sales in the $2,000+ display segment […]

April 10, 2018By Chris Forrester

Analyst: Large 4K sets dominate market

Paul Gray, IHS Markit’s Research Director, says that 4K sets now represent more than half of all sets shipped in North America and over two-thirds in China. Gray, speaking at MIPTV in Cannes on April 9th, and where 4K/UHD content is being extensively screened over the 4 days of the market, said that the average […]

April 9, 2018Chris Forrester @ MIPTV

Analyst: UHD rollout set for boost

According to Tristan Veale, Market Analyst at Futuresource Consulting, the rate of consumer uptake and service roll-out of UHD services will benefit from industry resolution of a range of technology issues. In a blog post, Veale noted that the UHD sector has continued its steady evolution over the last year, from a consumer perspective becoming […]

April 9, 2018By Colin Mann

Ultra HD Phase B Guidelines

The Ultra HD Forum – the global organisation responsible for promoting market adoption of Ultra HD – has paved the way for the next wave of UHD technologies by releasing Phase B Guidelines covering dynamic metadata, higher refresh rates, lower bandwidth requirement and next generation audio. According to Madeleine Noland, Chair of the Guidelines Work […]

April 9, 2018

Asia: Pay-TV subs with 4K STB at 53.6m in 2017

According to Dataxis research, the number of pay-TV subscribers in Asia owning a 4K set top box reached 53.6 million at the end of 2017. As at date, more than 30 pay-TV operators have launched 4K set-top-boxes in Asia. The South Korean IPTV operators, Korea Telecom, LGU Plus, SK Broadband and Tbroad were the first […]

April 3, 2018

AV1 codec optimised for OTT 4K

According to the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia), an organisation formed to define and develop media technologies to address marketplace demand for an open standard for video compression and delivery over the web, the technical-based hurdles and data demands of higher quality video mean that the majority of users only have access to full HD […]

March 29, 2018By Colin Mann

Movistar finalises 4K STB launch

Telefónica’s pay-TV platform Movistar Plus will quadruple the picture quality of its TV over the coming days with the launch of its new 4K STB. The new device will allow up to 4,000 pixels in horizontal resolution with UHD quality equipped with a HDR system. The launch is seen as a definitive boost to the […]

March 27, 2018From David Del Valle in Madrid

NZ: 4K fibre broadcast trial

New Zealand open access Internet network provider Chorus is undertaking a proof of concept trial using its fibre network to provide a direct broadcasting service to consumers’ homes. The service would run in parallel to any broadband service also provided over the fibre, using a second port on the Optical Network Terminal installed in homes, […]

March 26, 2018By Colin Mann