Musician Peter Gabriel has been busy this week performing his 25th Anniversary Back to Front show at London’s 02 Arena, and the event has been captured by production companies Done & Dusted, Real World and ERP Productions in 4K/Ultra-HDTV. The production team used 10 Sony F55 cameras to video the event in 4K. Eight Sony […]
LG Electronics has revealed Q3 2013 consolidated revenues of $12.51 billion. While competitive conditions in the TV sector and an unfavourable foreign currency exchange rate affected overall revenues compared with the 2012 third quarter, sales of mobile devices increased year-over-year by 24 per cent. LG saw a 27 per cent increase in third-quarter operating profit […]
THEMA, the provider of channels in France and internationally announces Fashion TV’s agreement with TrueVisions. The channel is now available in High Definition on the DTH platform of TrueVisions. Thailand’s leading pay-TV operator continues its development in the delivery of high quality entertainment and completes its channels line-up with the latest Fashion shows and beauty […]
Apple is likely to start selling ultra-high definition televisions with 65- and 55-inch screens during the fourth quarter of next year, according to a Tokyo-based analyst at Advanced Research Japan Co. Apple is deciding on specifications, and the models probably will have a frameless design, Masahiko Ishino, an analyst at Advanced Research, told Reuters. Apple […]
Blu-ray disc sales, by and large, are not doing well. Except in Germany, where physical disc sales grew 9.9 per cent during the first-half of this year (and in retail value terms grew 11.8 per cent) to €625 million according to data from the German BVV video association. Germany’ s love affair with Blu-ray is […]
C2G, a provider of cabling and connectivity solutions, has released a new line of HDMI cabling designed for connecting multimedia source devices in conference rooms, board rooms, small and home offices, desktop and commercial audio/video applications. The Select High Speed HDMI with Ethernet cable line allows users to experience the latest HDMI features including full […]
Andy Quested, the BBC’s head of technology for HD and Ultra-HD, says that the publicly-funded broadcaster cannot use licence-fee payer’s cash to fund 4K/Ultra-HD programming. Quested, quoted by 3D Focus, says that only programming funded by non-licence fee cash is being made. “Only programmes funded outside the licence fee are being produced in UHD. We […]
A new report from IHS Electronics & Media says that Ultra HD (4K) will be mainstream by the end of this decade. By 2020, the report’s author Tom Morrod says there will be 140 million TV homes watching at least one Ultra HD channel, and more than 50 million Ultra HD set-top boxes installed. Morrod says […]
upc cablecom is now offering a total of 27 channels in HD quality in German-speaking Switzerland. These can be received free of charge and without a set-top box as part of the basic package of more than 60 digital channels. The new Swiss entertainment channel S1 TV has also been added to the basic package. […]
Sony Corp is on track to reverse nine years of TV division losses and move into profit, helped by enthusiastic take-up of 4K sets and much close attention to cost cutting and greater efficiencies in the TV and cell-phone divisions. The news comes from Sony’s president Kazuo Hirai. “We are also poised to reinforce our […]