UK subscription-free satellite TV platform Freesat is seeking proposals from manufacturers to develop a set-top box for its next generation consumer product. The new product will give manufacturers a significant opportunity to develop a new range of innovative set-top-boxes at scale for subscription-free satellite TV customers across the UK. The product requirements will be based […]
Samsung Electronics America has announced an exclusive US marketing and retail partnership with Xbox to utilise Samsung’s lineup of QLED TVs as the official 4K TV partner for the Xbox One X. The partnership kicked off at E3 2017 in June as attendees experienced, for the first time ever, true 4K HDR gaming on Xbox […]
Telco-focused entertainment solution provider Netgem has been selected by fibre optic telco ZEOP, a growing triple-play operator in the Indian Ocean, to deploy a 4K TV service to its customers on the island of Réunion. This agreement extends a long-standing partnership between the two companies to provide a TV solution as part of the operator’s […]
20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation and Samsung Electronics have forged a new partnership to create an open, royalty-free dynamic metadata platform for High Dynamic Range (HDR) through an associated certification and logo programme, tentatively called HDR10+. Together, the three companies will form a licensing entity that will begin licensing the HDR10+ platform in January 2018. […]
Multi-play telco Digicel and Huawei Technologies have teamed up to push the boundaries of technology and put the real power of fibre to the test with the first-ever local linear broadcast of Ultra HD TV in the Caribbean. Hosted at Digicel’s downtown Kingston headquarters in Jamaica, the test demonstrated the benefit of having a 100 […]
BT Media and Broadcast, the digital media and broadcast solutions arm of the telco, is to broadcast live coverage of two Aviva Rugby Union Championship matches in UHD at broadcast technology show IBC over the weekend of September 16-17, using the latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) equipment from NTT Electronics, supplied by its UK […]
Globecast , the global solutions provider for media, has been chosen to broadcast the Opening and Closing ceremonies of the 29th Summer Universiade Taipei 2017, being held in Taipei, Taiwan. The signals, being broadcast in 4K HEVC format , are available in Asia via AsiaSat 5 , Europe via Eutelsat, and North & South America […]
4K content is being used as a key weapon to win subscribers as the pay-TV war rages on in Spain. Accordingly, both Vodafone and Orange will allow their subscribers to watch all football involving Barcelona and Real Madrid in 4K. Orange subscribers will be able to watch the matches through Orange TV Futbol (channel 72) […]
IHS Markit research shows that sales of high-end OLED displays are growing. The latest numbers from IHS, and reported by Large Display Monitor (LDM), say that OLED will grow to dominate the TV market for sets that cost more than $1,000 which took 5 per cent of the overall market in 2016, but more than […]
Samsung Electronics has expanded its premium Smart TV content service TV PLUS in Europe. The service will grant access to Ultra-High Definition (UHD) and High Dynamic Range (HDR) content for more viewers than ever, with consumers in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom now able to use it. Similar to the way viewers […]