LG Electronics has announced the launch of its 2017 Super UHD TV lineup featuring Nano Cell display at its R&D Center in Seoul. Alongside the thin LG Signature OLED TV W first unveiled at CES in January 2017, LG has high hopes that its dual premium strategy for TVs will expand its market share in […]
Toon Goggles, a provider of 4K on-demand video content for kids, is now available on all connected devices running the Foxxum Smart TV solution. The application offers a wide range of animated series for children of all ages, covering educational, adventure, fantasy, action and comedy cartoons like Badanamu, Bernard, Super Geek Heroes, Boing, Om Nom, […]
Last October, speaking at the giant IBC television technology show in Amsterdam, Fox Sports was talking as to how it was working towards covering ‘mid-level’ sports events in Ultra-HDTV, and with just one Outside Broadcast production truck, and wholly basing the truck’s technology on IP-based protocols. That plan came to fruition on February 17thwhen Fox […]
Telefónica is launching a new 4K set-top-box to enable its Movistar Plus subscribers to watch 4K TV content, above all football and cinema. The device is set to launch within the next few weeks. The move comes soon after its rival Vodafone Spain has announced the launch of a new set-top-box with TiVo and 4K […]
South Korea’s electronics giant LG Display has firmly retained its position as the world’s top seller of Ultra-HD panels during the fourth quarter of last year. Sales numbers from IHS’s industry tracking show that LG shipped 6.27 million units during the pre-Christmas period, accounting for 31.1 per cent of the global market for these new […]
Elemental Technologies, a specialist in software-defined video solutions, has announced that Globo.com has selected its video processing solutions to power its new 4K VoD services. The agreement expands the broadcaster’s existing Elemental deployment with added video infrastructure to process streaming 4K content with HEVC compression. Globo.com provides digital platforms and services for Brazil’s Grupo Globo, […]
BT Sport will show exclusive live coverage of Manchester United v St Etienne (February 16th) and Manchester City v AS Monaco (February 21st) in Dolby Atmos sound, the first time this has ever happened in UEFA Champions League or UEFA Europa League matches. The matches will be broadcast in Dolby Atmos sound exclusively on BT […]
According to the latest Ultra HD tracking report from Futuresource Consulting, although UHD as a home entertainment format has firmly planted its stake in the market, with strong growth evident from software to hardware adoption, it remains some way off reaching levels of mass-market adoption. Futuresource Consulting has been monitoring the UHD format for over […]
Following advanced-television.com’s report that US pay-TV operator DirecTV is to broadcast a range of programming in 4K, satellite platform DISH TV has confirmed it is to deliver live natural history series, Planet Earth II in the format. The series will simulcast on BBC America, AMC and SundanceTV on February 18th with subsequent episodes airing on BBCA […]
The BBC will debut its award-winning Planet Earth II documentary series in 4K and High Dynamic Range, on Blu-ray on March 13th. Speaking about the announcement, Lesley Johnson, Operations Director for BBC Worldwide, said: “The picture quality is astonishing. For the first time viewers can experience at home the picture quality viewed in the edit […]