Americans are increasingly replacing their once-enviable 50-inch TVs with even bigger screens; sized 65-inches and upwards. Buyers are opting for giant screens — pushing sales of them up 50 per cent in the past year while overall TV sales have faltered, according to research from NPD Group. As prices fall,
Communications infrastructure and media services company Arqiva is launching two new HD channels – Channel 4 +1 HD and 4seven HD – on UK DTT platform Freeview. The channels – airing on July 1st – will be available to over 70 per cent of the UK population from Arqiva’s newly-launched Freeview HD multiplex. These new […]
Sony and Vue Cinemas will be working with technical partners IDC, Eutelsat and DSAT Cinema to deliver a World Cup quarter final match and the final in Ultra-HD on 4th and 13th July, at Vue’s state-of-the-art multiplex in Westfield, London. The two matches will be streamed live via satellite from the iconic Estadio Jornalista Mario […]
Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has released its First Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, overall attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, […]
Showing the promise of 4K TV to early adopters of next generation TV technology, Envivio has announced that Globosat, a leading content provider to cable, satellite and IPTV operators in South America, has added Envivio as one of Globosat’s partners to broadcast live the quarter, semi-final and final 2014 World Cup games in Ultra-HD. “4K […]
In what it says could be a watershed moment in the history of broadcasting, BBC Research and Development is to broadcast certain elements of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games live in Ultra-High Definition (UHD) at a public showcase in the host city. The special R&D production will be shown live in the Glasgow Science Centre […]
Spain’s TV pubcaster RTVE has launched a pilot 4K Ultra-HD channel, La pasión del Prado, a documentary channel that broadcast a 50 minute documentary shot in 4K based on the history of the Madrid gallery and the works of art housed there. To produce the documentary, TVE has used the latest compression technologies under the […]
There were strong calls from satellite executives, speaking at CASBAA’s Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, to pull their fingers out and start transmitting in Ultra-HD, even with the less than perfect transmission protocols currently in place. Thomas Wrede, VP/broadcast systems at SES, while confirming that Ultra-HD would likely be a mass-market proposition by 2019-2020, also […]
Technology trade association the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced updated core characteristics for Ultra High-Definition (UHD) TVs, monitors and projectors for the home. As devised and approved by CEA’s Video Division Board, these characteristics build on the first-generation UHD characteristics released by the CEA in October 2012. These expanded display characteristics (CEA’s Ultra High-Definition […]
MENA region pay-TV broadcaster OSN is boosting the number of HD channels on offer to 46, an increase of two, and now including all of the operator’s movie channels. CEO David Butorac talked up the improved offering saying that his subscribers had grown to expect HD, and he promised more premium content would be appearing […]