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 […]
Liberty Global is to end the mix of its own Horizon and the TiVo provided STBs , as part of project ‘Eos’ part of Liberty 3.0 which CEO Mike Fries mow says will be known as ‘Liberty Go’. The company aims to reduce costs across the board and a common technology platform is a target. […]
Amidst a slightly weakened TV market in the Asia Pacific region in the first three months of the year, a shining star in the form of the Ultra HD segment turned in a stellar performance. Nearly 590,000 of the most advanced and high-end TV models were sold across the 11 markets surveyed, translating to over […]
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, […]
Vodafone Spain is finalising the launch of a new STB that will include the smart service TiVo within the 4K-equipped device. The new box will allow subscribers access to the TiVo service, to up to 120 TV channels, as well as the VoD service and other popular apps like Netflix. The new box will not […]
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 […]
The global 4K Set Top Box (STB) market size is expected to reach $3.65 billion (€3.2bn) by 2024, according to a report by Grand View Research. Increasing demand for 4K video content, surging sales of compatible 4K TVs and display devices is expected to positively shape the Ultra High Definition (UHD) set top box market’s […]