4K LCD TV shipments grew nearly 400 per cent year-over-year to reach 4.7 million units worldwide in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015. Volume barely dropped from the seasonally strong fourth quarter (Q4), with especially strong demand in China during the Chinese New Year holiday season, according to critical information and insight source IHS. However, […]
Markus Fritz, Director, Commercial Development and Marketing at Eutelsat, has admitted the satellite operator is more confident at the prospects for Ultra HD, noting that there is greater content availability and broadcaster interest than had been anticipated previously. At a Press Briefing, Fritz noted that a number of factors requited to make Ultra HD happen […]
Last week’s SID Display Technology Week 2015 event in San Jose saw Chinese display manufacturer BOE showcase a 10K display, offering a spectacular 10,240 x 4,320 resolution and a total of 44 million pixels, and measuring 82”. What is truly remarkable is not so much the impressive resolution (and despite there being next to nothing […]
BT Sport is set to unveil an Ultra HD service on June 9th. BT Sport will also confirm Gary Lineker as the anchor for BT’s coverage of UEFA’s Champions League football. BT Sport has the exclusive TV rights to the matches, and also to UEFA’s Europe League, from the 2015-16 season for three years. For […]
Exclusive Ultra HD content broadcast in the Hot Bird 4K1 channel operated by Eutelsat Communications continues to expand and diversify with new input from SPI International and Anixe HD Television. SPI International, operator of more than 30 TV channels on four continents, and German broadcaster Anixe are both displaying original new content at the Anga […]
France Télévisions, which is currently trialling UHD transmissions at the Roland Garros Tennis Open, has confirmed that the test channel will now air for the entire duration of June. Following the retransmission of the tennis tournament on both Fransat’s dish TV offering and Paris DTT network, in partnership with TDF and Eutelsat, the France Télévisions […]
Elemental Technologies is a leader in Software Defined Video and it has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner. At TV Connect in London, Advanced Television talked to John Nemeth VP EMEA. [bitsontherun 5UwyCT52-ni7dlelE]
NanoTech Entertainment, an expert in bringing the 4K Ultra HD experience to consumers has released a version of its UltraFlix 4K Ultra HD network on the MAC OS X operating system with support for the 5K iMac. Aaron Taylor, NanoTech VP of Sales and Marketing noted “The 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display is the […]
France’s Canal+ has confirmed that it is to screen the forthcoming UEFA Champions League Final on Saturday June 6th between Barcelona and Juventus in Ultra High Definition. The broadcast will be via Astra craft situated at 19.2°E in partnership with SES and also OTT. The initiative is in line with the group’s year-old policy of […]
While just about everyone agrees that 4K/UHD is the ‘next big thing’ for broadcasters wishing to capitalise on viewers’ lust for everything that’s bigger and brighter, the fact remains that standard definition transmissions still dominates in most parts of the world. A detailed report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) explains the position. Looking at the […]