Telekom Malaysia’s IPTV service, HyppTV is showcasing the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in 4K quality, a first in Malaysia, in a special event at Sunway Pyramid, the official venue partner for the showcase. The event was held to preview HyppTV’s breakthrough innovation in TV broadcasting, together with its technology partner, Huawei. The 4K technology will […]
Japanese public broadcaster NHK has started 4K and 8K ultra HD test broadcasting on its satellite channels, with the aim of fine-tuning the technology and popularising its use before the 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Currently viewers cannot watch 8K broadcasting with conventional television sets or tuners. NHK has sited 8K public viewing at […]
Japanese satellite operator SKY Perfect JSAT is to launch the world’s first publicly-available 4K HDR (High Dynamic Range) broadcast on October 4, 2016, during timeslots on its dedicated 4K channel, SKY PerfecTV! 4K Experience, launched on May 1, 2016. The channel can be enjoyed free of charge by anyone with compatible equipment for receiving […]
AT&T-owned pay-TV broadcaster DirecTV and Charlie Ergen’s Dish Network, as well as some users of Comcast’s giant cable system, will be able to watch some of the NBC transmissions of the upcoming Rio Olympic Games in Ultra HD. Subscribers who own a suitable UHD set will be able to watch some 4K coverage from the […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that multiple US cable operators are testing Ultra HD (or 4K) content across its fully-managed Ultra HD platform and receiving HEVC 4K IP set-top boxes in preparation for Ultra HD subscriber trials into US households later in 2016. SES has signed Ultra HD trial agreements with Cable America in Missouri, […]
A new global survey from digital platform security specialist Irdeto and global analyst firm SNL Kagan has found that video service providers, including pay-TV and OTT operators, and content producers around the world believe that one of the key drivers for operators’ implementation of 4K ultra high definition (UHD) is the expectation that consumers will […]
South Korea has selected the ATSC 3.0 standard for the country’s ultra-high-definition television broadcasting set to launch in February 2017. The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said it preferred ATSC 3.0, developed by standards body the Advanced Television Systems Committee, for UHD TV broadcasting over the Europe-based DVB-T2 standard. UHD TVs manufactured by […]
Sony Electronics has unveiled the Z series, the next generation in television display technology with the ability to reproduce the deeper blacks, brighter lights, and vibrant colours of the real world. The new flagship Z series sits atop Sony’s current X series line-up of premium 4K HDR Ultra HD TVs, which includes the award winning […]
Ahead of the 2016 Olympic games, Snell Advanced Media (SAM), found that almost one in three Americans (31 per cent) would like to watch the Olympics on Netflix if it was available to them, though more than half of Americans (56 per cent) will watch at home via their live cable or satellite TV this […]
Statements from UBI Research say that display-makers LG in South Korea are to near-double their production of 65-inch LED panels in Q2. UBI Research says that LG shipped some 140,000 65-inch OLED panels in the March-June period, compared to some 28,000 units shipped in the first quarter. LG is already the Number 1 player in […]