Thomson Video Networks has announced that satellite operator Eutelsat is launching an Ultra-HD demonstration channel for Southeast Asia and Australia, based on the ViBE VS7000 multi-screen video system and Sapphire MPEG stream server. Broadcast via Eutelsat’s year-old EUuteksat 70B satellite, the demo channel will leverage the advanced high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) capabilities of the Thomson […]
Eutelsat Communications working in partnership with ST Teleport, one of Asia’s leading full-service satellite, fibre and IP communications solutions providers, will be introducing its 4k TV channel on the Eutelsat 70B satellite that reaches across Southeast Asia and Australia. The content displayed by Eutelsat’s new 4k channel is encoded in HEVC by ATEME and Thomson […]
South American viewers lucky enough to own a suitable 4K-enabled display can receive some of FIFA World Cup games in Ultra-HD, thanks to the pairing of Broadcom-supplied BCM7445 SoC chipsets using HEVC with Elemental’s encoding system. The signals will go out on Globosat’s SPORTV channel over Brazil and beyond. Moreover, the transmissions will be captured […]
Driven by the World Cup, 530,000 TVs were sold last month in France, representing a 25 per cent growth year on year. A total of 2.3 million TVs have been sold since the beginning of the year. After a two year decrease, a study
British TV manufacturer Titan has launched the world’s largest commercial TV, the ‘Zeus’. The TV comes with a screen size of 370 inches – roughly the size of a football goal – and a hefty price tag of £1 million (€1.24m). The ‘Zeus’ is designed for indoor usage but is also optimised for outdoor watching […]
Worldwide shipments of flat-panel televisions rose convincingly in the first quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, a stronger-than-expected showing that puts the industry on firm footing for the year, according to a new report from IHS Technology. The market for LCD TV was particularly robust, climbing 4 percent from January to […]
Satellite operator MEASAT and satellite communications specialist Newtec are teaming up to deliver 4K Ultra High Definition Television (UHDTV) content via transmission scheme DVB-S2X to the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center at the forthcoming CommunicAsia 2014 expo. According to the pair, the extensions to the DVB-S2 standard will be instrumental for the satellite […]
BBC Research and Development is to trial Ultra-HD broadcasts during this year’s FIFA World Cup. The closed trials will cover all of the three World Cup matches being produced in Ultra-HD by FIFA TV from the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro – one from the last 16, a quarter-final and the final – marking the […]
UK DTT service Freeview has unveiled a new advertising campaign ahead of the World Cup aimed at promoting the idea that there’s more to TV than football – even during the World Cup. The multi-platform campaign, entitled ‘Love or Hate Football,’ centres on a new TV ad, challenging viewers to watch whatever it is they […]
LG Electronics has revealed that more than one million units of its webOS-enabled Smart+ TVs have been sold since the launch of the line-up in March. Featuring an intuitive user experience unmatched by any smart TV platform on the market today, LG expects sales to reach 10 million units by the first half of 2015. […]