NPD DisplaySearch, in its analysis of the UK’s display and TV market, credits Sony with leading the main ‘pack of four’ (Sony, Samsung, LG and Panasonic) in terms of UK unit sales and market share. Sony has an 18.2 per cent UK market share, although this is well down on its dominant position barely six […]
Satellite communications service provider MEASAT is teaming up with broadcast technology services provider Village Island, test and measurement specialist Aviindos and satellite engineering company TotalComm for a demonstration of Asia’s first ever live multiple 4K HEVC satellite uplink/downlink and decoding services on a single DVB-S2 channel and single DVB-T2 channel at the ABU DBS 2014 […]
Chinese telecoms technology company ZTE has used Mobile World Congress to unveil a 4K/p60 set-top box. The device uses Broadcom’s latest BCM7252 chip and can handle Ultra-HDTV’s 4K x 2K/p60 (3840 x 2160 pixels) processing and decoding. ZTE says its set-top solution (ZXV10-B803) supports the H.265 advanced compression algorithm with the same quality as H.264. […]
Luxembourg-base SES is already carrying more than 6230 satellite channels, some 18 per cent of the world’s total channels (35,000), and this year – if its forecasts are reasonably accurate – the operator will overtake Intelsat as the world’s largest satellite business measured by revenues. The reason is that Intelsat is very dependent on so-called […]
A senior Samsung executive, speaking in Indonesia, said that last year’s sales of large-format TV displays in Ultra-HD had resulted in the company quickly becoming market leader, and with a 33 per cent market share in the US. Bernard Ang, Samsung Electronics Indonesia’s consumer electronics business director, showcased the company’s new 55”, 65” and 78” […]
The Sochi Winter Games are being transmitted live in 4K/Ultra-HD to selected public viewing sites by Russian pay-TV broadcaster NTV Plus, and using a system-on-a-chip video solution supplied by chipset manufacturer Broadcom and a video processor from Elemental. The opening ceremony was captured live, for example, using the Broadcom-Elemental solution. Broadcom’s 28 nanometer Ultra HD […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK has a small technical team at the Sochi Winter Olympics testing and recording events in 8K, Super Hi-Vision. The engineers have built a special theatre in the main Olympic complex at Sochi and equipped it with a Panasonic 145” display, plus 22.2-channel surround sound. Viewers can see recordings made at the […]
Analysts at investment bank Berenberg say they expect satellite operator SES to announce positive full-year results on February 21st (to December 31st) but perhaps more importantly to announce an improved guidance for 2014’s numbers and beyond. Senior analyst Sarah Simon states that SES is a “top pick” for 2014, and headlines her note to clients […]
Three-quarters (73 per cent) of online US adults who saw Ultra High-Definition TV (Ultra HDTV) technology in a retail store are interested in owning the technology at some point in the future, while only 34 per cent of people
The International Olympic Committee and Olympic Broadcasting Services are working with Panasonic to capture the upcoming 22nd Winter Games opening ceremony in 4K-Ultra HD at Sochi. The games run from February 7th to 23rd, and Panasonic say that the 4K footage will then be used by the various organisations and Panasonic itself for promotional purposes. […]