Andy Quested, Head of HD and UHD at the BBC, has suggested that any entry by the broadcaster into providing UHD/4K content needn’t necessarily be in the form of a ‘traditional’ channel service. Speaking at the Futuresource Consulting New Content Horizons conference in London, Quested – who stressed that the Corporation didn’t have a UHD […]
illuminate has completed a digital restoration of the iconic TV series, The X-Files. Retransferred from the camera-original negative, the show’s entire 201 episodes have been reassembled in HD using illuminate’s proprietary iConform technology. All nine seasons of The X-Files have now been released on Netflix. iConform, illuminate’s proprietary software, was used to automatically edit together […]
ATEME has been selected to provide the primary live video encoding platform in 4K HEVC (H265) during the French Tennis Open. The images are being broadcast during the two week tournament on the Fransat platform, which provides the distribution of the French free to air broadcasting service (TNT) by satellite (EUT5°W), and can be viewed […]
June 1st marked 80 years since the start of Japan’s NHK public service international transmissions. The international service, which began with radio broadcasts in 1935, today conveys the latest stories from Japan and Asia to the world via television, radio, and the Internet. NHK used the occasion to broadcast a variety of domestic and international […]
Satellite operator AsiaSat has revealed plans to deploy Asia’s first dedicated Ultra HD (UHD) broadcast platform in the coming months. Initially using a C-band transponder on AsiaSat 4 at 122°E, the UHD platform, based on DVB-S2 and HEVC solutions, will be able to deliver two to five full time UHD channels. Transmissions will be in […]
The Canal+ and Canalsat TV channels will all go all HD on July 1st, with 80 channels carried in native HD at first. The dual SD and HD broadcasts will cease. The sixty networks like France 3 which will not meet Canalsat’s HD timeline next month will be up-scaled to HD. All the channels will […]
TV panel shipment targets will reach an historic high in 2015, despite the strengthening dollar against other currencies, especially those of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and emerging markets. According to information and insight source IHS, TV panel unit shipments are expected to grow
Envivio will add live production capabilities to its 4K streaming demonstration of this year’s French Open tennis championship in France. Envivio’s compression technology is being used by French broadcaster TDF to live stream the event using HEVC (H.265) compression over DVB T-2. The main matches will be broadcast by TDF to TNT, the national DTT […]
Thomson Video Networks has announced that CHILI, the independent Italian provider for the digital distribution of movies and TV series, is using the ViBE VS7000 multi-screen and HEVC encoding platform to deliver premium HEVC 4K content via its pay-TV movie service platform. In addition, CHILI is protecting that content using watermarking technology from NexGuard, a […]
The total sales volume of flat panel TV continues to slow down in six key Southeast Asia markets but consumer demand for ultra-HD (UHD) models have spiked exponentially in the past year to help fuel the strong growth of this segment as well as the overall value growth of the TV market. According to GfK’s