Japan’s NHK public broadcaster is to work with the British Museum on an 8K video project featuring the mysteries of the acclaimed Edo period woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai. Hokusai’s works are world-famous and have wielded influence across the arts from the paintings of Monet and other Impressionists to the musical works of Debussy. NHK says […]
NASA is producing what it says is the first-ever live 4K video stream from space during a session at the 2017 NAB Show. The panel is co-produced by NAB Show, NASA, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), and will explore how advanced imaging and cloud technologies are taking scientific research and filmmaking to the next level. […]
The Ultra HD Forum, the global organisation defining industry best practices for the introduction of technologies to facilitate the ultra-high-definition (UHD) viewing experience, has released the UHD Forum Guidelines version 1.3 including a new forensic watermarking chapter. This chapter is the result of the collaboration between leading watermarking technologies providers. In addition to an overview […]
SES has been supplying test Ultra-HD transmissions over the US for some months. Vivicast Media is its partner, and Vivicast used the NAB show in Las Vegas to announce its first contracts, with a pair of multichannel video programming distributors to supply a bouquet of ten UHD channels. Marquette-Adams of Oxford, Wisconsin and Highlands Cable […]
Samsung Electronics and Amazon Video are introducing HDR10+, an updated open standard that leverages dynamic metadata to produce enhanced contrast and colours on an expanded range of televisions. According to the pair, HDR10+ elevates the HDR10 open standard with the addition of Dynamic Tone Mapping. The current HDR10 standard utilises static metadata that does not […]
Security solutions specialist Inside Secure is working with forensic watermarking solutions provider ContentArmor to offer customers a pre-integrated software development kit (SDK) for secure player, meeting the stringent security requirements for early-window and UHD movies. Inside Secure’s SAFEplayer Ultra supports the widest range of devices, including Android 2.3+, Android STB, Android TV, iOS 6.0+, tvOS, […]
Airtel Digital TV, the DTH arm of Indian multiplay operator Bharti Airtel, has launched ‘Internet TV’ – India’s first hybrid STB, powered by Android TV, which brings the best of online content to the TV screen along with a bouquet of over 500 plus satellite TV channels. Airtel ‘Internet TV’ transforms any TV into a […]
Multi-screen solutions Alticast has significantly extended the security capabilities of the Alticast AltiProtect product to 4K UHD content running on Windows platforms. Alticast has integrated Intel Software Guard Extensions (Intel SGX) technology into the AltiProtect Multi-DRM product to eliminate exposure to untrusted areas, enable secure delivery of 4K UHD online video content from servers to client devices, […]
Cairo-based satellite operator Nilesatis to invest $300 million in a new satellite (and its launch costs), Nilesat 301. Further details on its build and launch plans are not yet available. The report comes fresh after news that Nilesat is to ‘partner’ with New Delhi-based Tata Communications in a new service for delivering regional media over […]
Marco Pellegrinato, Director R&D & Innovation at Italy’s RTI – Mediaset Group, has suggested that the country could adopt an interim HD HDR phase between 2018 and 2022 over digital terrestrial television prior to moving to Ultra HD HDR. Speaking during a panel session on ‘Italy is Busy with Ultra HD’ in the Sony 4K […]