Japanese TV will this week show footage of last week’s Comet ISON captured in 4K by astronaut Koichi Wakata. Wakata was aboard the International Space Station and used a specially developed, and ultra-sensitive, 4K camera to video the comet and its surrounding aurora. The images are a world’s first for shooting 4K in outer space. […]
Japanese electronics giant is closing its Chinese LCD TV production factory at Dalian Toshiba. “Going forward, [Toshiba] would optimise a balance between in-house production and production by original design manufacturer (ODM) partners, as a means to cut fixed costs and enhance operational efficiency,” said the company in a formal announcement to the Tokyo stock exchange. […]
We are all headed to an IP driven multi-screen world. The irony is that this enables more and better services – and therefore the opportunity for providers to monetise subscribers in more and better ways – and yet these services are delivered by a process that is intrinsically ‘best efforts’. Because of variable bandwidths in […]
Sony Japan is making available a software update for its Bravia X-range of 4K displays. The upgrade means that the giant TV sets can now handle HDMI v2.0 connectivity. Sony has two X-models in the market measuring 55” (X8) and 65” (X9). As yet there are no instructions on whether the update is available to […]
Naked News markets itself as the newscast with “nothing to hide”. Now, viewers can see the – mostly – female news presenters in the extra clarity of HD. Naked News is in its 640th week of presenting the news for web-viewing. It produces its nightly telecasts from Toronto, Canada and the presenters have been undressing […]
Google’s YouTube is to migrate all the videos on YouTube to its V9 compression standard as it prepares for 4K, according to Matt Frost, head of strategy and partnerships for Google Chrome. Frost told OTTtv World Summit, “4K is the new 3D,” but device makers don’t want to repeat mistakes with a lack of content. […]
Eutelsat’s annual TV Awards, which took place in a star-studded Venice gala on November 15th, celebrated what CEO Michel de Rosen said were the ‘best of the best’ in terms of TV channels carried on the Eutelsat fleet. But the evening also showcased the latest Ultra-HD/4K TV, and where Eutelsat announced a joint venture with […]
Italian public broadcaster RAI, via its Strategic Technologies unit, has teamed up with Eutelsat Italia on a project to experiment with recording in the 4K Ultra-HD standard. ”Rome, Naples, Venice … in a Rossini Crescendo” is the name of a documentary that will be shot in Ultra-HD, which will explore thecultural beauties of Italian cities […]
The planet still has some 23,182 channels broadcasting in Standard Definition. Of this total, says Northern Sky Research, 73 per cent are still transmitting in MPEG-2 or similar SD systems. In other words, MPEG-4, a newer compression system, has yet to make any progress in some key markets. Even amongst markets considered to be classified […]
HD and 3D TV are failing to impress, as the UK’s TV viewers put digital recording features, on-demand content and subscription-free viewing on their list of ‘must have’ TV features, according to research from set-top box provider Humax. The survey of 2,000 UK adults reveals