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United4All: HDR and Wide Colour Gamut ‘totally worth it’

Rene Delwel, CEO of United 4 All, tells about another year of shooting in 4K UHD, including famous names in concert and game shows in Botswana, and why its ‘totally worth’ moving to HDR and Wide Colour Gamut, [bitsontherun W4ZWbSD0-hLYU43gg]

October 17, 2016

Auditorium Films: choose your UHD subject carefully

Reza Ackbaraly CEO of Auditorium Films tells about capturing concerts in 4K UHD, the challenges in workflow, and how choosing the right subject matter is the key to making UHD really work for the broadcaster and viewer. [bitsontherun jnIgRxrK-hLYU43gg]

October 17, 2016

Industry ready for mass-market 4K

Panellists at the opening session in the Sony 4K Ultra HD theatre at MIPCOM have declared that the broadcast industry is now at a stage where 4K is no longer a future prospect, with the suggestion that 2017 will see the format become mass-market. Joe Nakata, Senior Producer, Sony Corporation Japan, noted the importance of […]

October 17, 2016Colin Mann @ MIPCOM

NHK backs 4K for news

Japan’s public broadcaster, NHK, is testing and trialling the use of Ultra-HD for newsgathering. The plans include 4K for current affairs and other news-based TV production. Masashi Yoshino, NHK’s senior producer at its News Features Production Center, told delegates to MIPCOM’s UHD sessions devoted to 4K production that test broadcasts of its ‘Super Hi-Vision’ technology […]

October 17, 2016Chris Forrester @ MIPCOM

RAI to air Medici in 4K

Italian public broadcaster RAI is to transmit an eight-episode drama, shot in Ultra-HD, to Italian viewers starting on October 18th. The show, Medici: Masters of Florence, an historical drama starring Dustin Hoffman and chronicling the rise of the Italian Renaissance political dynasty will be available exclusively in the RAI 4K channel on Italy’s Tivùsat platform […]

October 12, 2016By Chris Forrester

Insight TV commissions HDR sports reality show

Insight TV, the factual entertainment channel, has commissioned a sports reality programme filmed entirely in HDR. The 30//10 Challenge is an adventure stunt series that follows action sport athletes Sam Hardy and Nathan Jones on their journey to create and complete ten unique challenges over the course of thirty days. They will be joined by […]

October 10, 2016

France: Medici in 4K on Zive

SFR Media’s new VoD platform Zive – set to be rebranded as SFR Play by the end of 2016 – will launch TV series Medici: Masters of Florence in 4K on October 25th, and as its first original and exclusive TV content. The first two episodes will be available at launch. The series will be […]

October 7, 2016From Pascale Paoli Lebailly in Paris

XTreme Video partners with AsiaSat on 4K content

4K-SAT, the Ultra-HD channel operated by AsiaSat, will be broadcasting premium extreme and outdoor content from XTreme Video on AsiaSat 4. XTreme Video is producing 4K content for extreme sports fans worldwide. Its UHD content on 4K-SAT will include some of the most stunning extreme and outdoor content, such as the successful mountain biking series […]

September 22, 2016

Tata readies Sky for UHD F1

Tata Communications, Formula One Management and Sky have tested in action live Ultra HD broadcasting at the 2016 F1 Singapore Grand Prix. Following this first ever end-to-end broadcast of an F1 race in UHD, Sky will show all races of the 2017 season in UHD. The successful proof of concept involved the installation of multiple […]

September 21, 2016

4K OTT adoption set to soar

Data from Juniper Research has found that 4K OTT content will finally see mass-market appeal, with adoption set to soar over the next five years. Juniper’s research, Digital TV & Video: Network and OTT Strategies 2016-2021, found that 4K OTT services will attract over 189 million unique users globally by 2021, up from just 2.3 […]

September 20, 2016