South American viewers lucky enough to own a suitable 4K-enabled display can receive some of FIFA World Cup games in Ultra-HD, thanks to the pairing of Broadcom-supplied BCM7445 SoC chipsets using HEVC with Elemental’s encoding system. The signals will go out on Globosat’s SPORTV channel over Brazil and beyond. Moreover, the transmissions will be captured […]
Driven by the World Cup, 530,000 TVs were sold last month in France, representing a 25 per cent growth year on year. A total of 2.3 million TVs have been sold since the beginning of the year. After a two year decrease, a study
British TV manufacturer Titan has launched the world’s largest commercial TV, the ‘Zeus’. The TV comes with a screen size of 370 inches – roughly the size of a football goal – and a hefty price tag of £1 million (€1.24m). The ‘Zeus’ is designed for indoor usage but is also optimised for outdoor watching […]
Satellite operator MEASAT and satellite communications specialist Newtec are teaming up to deliver 4K Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) content via transmission scheme DVB-S2X to the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center at the forthcoming CommunicAsia 2014 expo. According to the pair, the extensions to the DVB-S2 standard will be instrumental for the satellite […]
BBC Research and Development is to trial Ultra-HD broadcasts during this year’s FIFA World Cup. The closed trials will cover all of the three World Cup matches being produced in Ultra-HD by FIFA TV from the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro – one from the last 16, a quarter-final and the final – marking the […]
Osaka-based Kansai TV says it is ready to transmit 4K World Cup content over-the-air terrestrially, and helped by Elemental Technology’s encoding/decoding solutions at 14.5 Mb/s at 60 frames-per-second. Kansai is part of the Fuji Network System. Tests carried out last week, using the 2014 Osaka Women’s Marathon, filmed in 4K, and using 64QAM modulation worked […]
Portugal Telecom (through its Meo brand), Portuguese public broadcaster RTP and manufacturer Samsung have teamed up for what they claim will be the first global Ultra-HD live broadcast, simultaneously on two platforms (Fibre Optic and Satellite). The exclusive technology preview will take place during the Portugal vs Greece friendly football match at the Estadio da […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications is ramping up its Ultra-HD activity with the launch of Europe’s first demo channel encoded in HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) and broadcasting at 50 frames per second with 10-bit colour depth (one billion colours – HEVC Main 10 profile). According to Eutelsat, these three parameters are key for creating a […]
Japanese electronics giant Panasonic says it is exiting the OLED screen market. Panasonic blames the low yield and thus poor profitability on production of OLEDs. Panasonic says it is working to sell its existing OLED production division to Japan Display Inc, claimed to be the world’s largest producer of liquid crystal displays for smartphones and […]
Envivio, a provider of software-based video processing and delivery solutions, has announced that its 4K Ultra HD compression technology is being used by French broadcaster TDF for live streaming of the French Open 2014 tennis championship to compatible 4K TV sets in France. This represents the world’s first DTT broadcast video transmission delivered in 4K, […]