Eurosport says its coverage of snooker’s Home Nations series will reach new heights December 10th to 16th when the BetVictor Scottish Open is televised in Ultra High Definition for the first time. The tournament in Glasgow will be on the Eurosport 4K channel and available in France (via Canal) and Russia (via Tricolor TV and […]
At a ceremony in Tokyo on Saturday, December 1st, Communications Minister Masatoshi Ishida said he hopes Japan will play a leading global role in 4K and 8K broadcasting. NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, at 10am local time, switched on the two new channels. NHK President Ryoichi Ueda said the broadcaster will aim to spread the service […]
As 2018 draws to a close, consumer interest in 4K continues to climb, receiving a further push due to average retail prices reaching parity with HD TV sets, according to the latest market tracking report from Futuresource Consulting. “This year, we’re expecting annual 4K TV shipments to power past 100 million units,” says Tristan Veale, […]
IHS Markit says that sales of 8K sets are below their already modest expectations. At best only 18,000 8K sets will be sold globally this year according to IHS forecasts – well down on its own earlier predictions that some 85,000 units would be sold in 2018. However, Japanese 8K full-time transmissions will start this […]
The TV flat-panel manufacturing sector is building a large number of screen fabrication plants in order to supply TV manufacturers with 65” and 75” units. Sweta Dash, president of market research company Dash Insights,
UHD HDR broadcaster and producer of native UHD content Insight TV has confirmed that it is using Advanced HDR by media and entertainment technologist Technicolor. This solution is composed of Technicolor HDR and Technicolor HDR Intelligent Tone Management (ITM) technologies to up, down and cross-convert its existing UHD content library providing the highest quality to […]
LG Displays have been making flexible ‘rollable’ OLED displays – as prototypes – for a couple of years. Indeed, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK used four 42” roll-up displays, stitched together, to create a massive 8K screen back in 2016 at broadcasting technology show IBC. LG demonstrated a shelf-mounted 65” rollable 4K screen at CES this past […]
LG makes the best panels for OLED manufacturers, and there is no doubt that their ‘best of breed’ quality is appealing for their own branded displays as well as those of its retail rivals. But according to analysis by Bob Raikes of Display Daily the South Korean electronics giant is some way off from making […]
OLED-based TV displays are generally acknowledged to enjoy a ‘best of breed’ reputation amongst viewers and the industry. However, a recent suite of tests show an alarming set of results and distinct anxieties. The tests were run by product review and ratings specialists Rtings.com (which coyly describes ‘burn in’ as “image retention”). Rtings started a […]
After declining unit-shipment volumes in 2017, global TV shipments are forecast to grow 3.6 per cent year over year in 2018, with additional 1.4 per cent growth in 2019, according to a new report from business information provider IHS Markit. Of the 226 million TVs expected