Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

ATEME powers TV Azteca 4K broadcast

ATEME has announced that TV Azteca, the Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas, broadcast the football match between the Mexican national team and Paraguay on May 28th, live in UHD.The match was played in Atlanta, US and the broadcast took place via satellite and terrestrial network, in partnership with ATEME, who provided the digital […]

June 17, 2016

Sky Cinema UHD “by end of year”

Ian Lewis, Director of Sky Cinema Europe, has confirmed that the operator will have an Ultra HD movie proposition by the end of 2016, with announcements on Sky’s UHD strategy expected in the coming weeks. Lewis’s comments came as Sky revealed a rebrand and a relaunch of its UK Sky Movies service to ‘Sky Cinema’ […]

June 15, 2016By Colin Mann

RAI 4K broadcasts for Euro 2016

Rome-based DBW Communications is customising some of the key Euro 2016 football matches for broadcast in 4K for Italian public broadcaster RAI. DBW says it will be supplying the games for live transmission in Ultra HD and which will be screened on the Tivùsat free-to-view platform which is transmitted from Eutelsat’s ‘Hot Bird’ satellite. The […]

June 15, 2016By Chris Forrester

4K set sales boom, but no Euro 2016 bonanza

The UK this year will buy about 1.70 million Ultra HD sets, which is well ahead of last year’s total of 963,000. But the total number of TV sets bought will be much the same as 2015. This year will see 6.1 million displays bought (including Full HD and HD Ready units), compared with 6.08 […]

June 14, 2016By Chris Forrester

Sony confirms 4K PlayStation 4

After weeks of speculation, Sony has confirmed that it will be releasing an updated version of its PlayStation 4 console that will enable 4K gaming. Andrew House, president of Sony Interactive Entertainment told the FT that the new PlayStation model – codenamed Neo – will support Ultra HD and added added that the launch won’t […]

June 13, 2016

Portugal’s NOS debuts next -gen TV service

Portugal’s broadband and pay-TV provider NOS has launched a next generation TV service and the country’s first personal TV service. The UMA interface includes the functionalities most sought after by customers, such as advanced voice control and the NOS TV application, as well as a simpler and more intuitive navigation and an increasingly more customised […]

June 8, 2016From Branislav Pekic in Rome

“Future proof 4K with HDR” say content producers

The Producers Guild of America’s president Lori McCreary is telling film and programme makers to capture their output in 4K and High Dynamic Range, and thus “future proof our productions [which will then] be around longer”. McCreary was speaking at a conference held at Sony Picture’s Culver City Studios, and added that producers should be […]

June 8, 2016By Chris Forrester

MENA viewers to get Euro 2016 in 4K

Qatar-owned Es’hailSat is working with beIN to show live coverage of the upcoming UEFA Euro 2016 football in 4K. Transmissions will be from Es’HailSat’s 26 degrees East slot (which it shares with Arabsat). Es’hailSat says the beIN broadcasts will be the first-ever in the MENA region to transmit live 4K sports to viewers.  “beIN currently […]

June 8, 2016By Chris Forrester

ATEME 4K HEVC for M6, TF1 Euro 2016

TF1 and M6, the national French television stations, have selected ATEME to encode in 4K-UHD HEVC (H.265) eight of the Euro 2016 football matches. ATEME has provided a complete video headend, which includes its encoder TITAN Live 4K , as well as all necessary resources that are required for a high-quality and fully secured service. […]

June 8, 2016

ARRIS powers NOS 4K services

NOS, Portugal’s broadband and TV service provider, has selected the ARRIS ZD4500 set-top for its new, immersive 4K service. NOS says the 4K service will offer the highest-quality entertainment experience in the country, allowing consumers to take full advantage of the growing accessibility of 4K TVs as well as new 4K movies and sports broadcasts. […]

June 7, 2016Colin Mann @ ANGA COM