Claro Chile, a subsidiary of America Movil, the third largest telecommunications operator in the world and the largest in Latin America, and Harmonic, an expert in video delivery infrastructure, have announced that they will demonstrate end-to-end Ultra HD delivery via Claro Chile’s distribution network. Over the next few months, Claro Chile will showcase UHD images […]
SPI International has launched Funbox 4K/UHD on PostTV in Luxembourg, which currently has over 40,000 IPTV subscribers in a market out of about 200,000 homes. Funbox 4K/UHD is a premium, general entertainment TV channel which airs a mix of native 4K documentaries, performing arts programming, extreme adventure content as well as movies and TV series. The channel […]
Three of the eleven football matches M6 will broadcast during this summer’s Euro 2016 tournament in France will be shot in 4K and delivered to Orange fibre subscribers. RTL Group’ s French channel, which promises a “high tech and connected Euro”, will also introduce other technological and digital innovations to its football dedicated programming, including […]
Samsung Electronics has confirmed that its UBD-K8500 Ultra HD Blu-ray player has been certified as ‘UHD Premium’ by the UHD Alliance (UHDA). Now a part of Samsung’s total UHD ecosystem, the UBD-K8500 joins the 2016 Samsung SUHD TV lineup in UHDA Premium Certifications. The UHDA announced mid-April 2016 that it was adding Blu-ray players to […]
Portuguese public broadcaster RTP will launch a Ultra HD channel for this summer’s Euro 2016 football tournament in France. A total of eight matches will be broadcast live on the RTP Ultra HD channel, always at 20:00 local time. These include the opening match on June 10th, the quarter-finals between June 30th and July 3rd, […]
SES says it is now carrying 23 Ultra HD channels across its fleet (up from 19 at December 31st). Fifteen of these channels are commercial. SES says it will increase its shareholding in specialist satellite operator O3b (which targets the ‘other 3 billion’ of underserved broadband consumers) to 50.5 per cent, and thus take a […]
SFR has confirmed that it will launch five new sports channels, including one premium, one dedicated to multi sports, one for extreme sports, one for sports news (operated by NextRadio TV) and one for 4K events. Launching in June, the sport channels will not be exclusive to SFR subscribers, and will also be distributed on […]
Dubai-based OSN says the main focus of its 2016 investment programme is on preparing for the introduction of 4K transmissions. Mark Billinge, OSN’s CTO, in a report in Via Satellite magazine, says the broadcaster’s next-generation platform will be UHD capable, and will launch at the end of 2016 or early in 2017. He adds that […]
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE) has confirmed plans to release a broad selection of films in 4K Ultra HD. UPHE will begin a progressive rollout of its growing roster of movie titles around the world beginning this summer, showcasing a mix of new releases, including some of this year’s most-anticipated blockbusters The Huntsman: Winter’s War, […]
Neil Hunt, Chief Product Officer at Netflix, has revealed a raft of titles the service is planning to make available in both Dolby Vision and HDR formats. Writing in the company Blog, Hunt says that pushing the boundaries on video quality is one of Netflix’s passions. “We’re particularly excited about High Dynamic Range – or […]