Motion Pictures Laboratories (MovieLabs), a technology joint venture of the major Hollywood studios, has published the first version of the Enhanced Content Protection for Production (ECPP), providing a set of best practices for production services vendors, cloud services providers, studios and productions, developed with input from studio security experts and leading technology companies across the […]

Helped by strong international growth, especially in China, Japan and South Korea, the 4K TV market by valuation is forecast to expand by $56.99 billion (€50.5bn) at a CAGR of 15 per cent CAGR in the period 2020-2025, according to market research from Technavio. However , as recognised by other researchers, the lack of viewable […]

German luxury TV-maker Loewe has relaunched in the UK with its high-end, top-quality TV sets. This comes after the brand initially left the UK in July 2019, but returned following what has been described as a ‘significant investment’ from international technology investment company Skytec. Loewe will be partnering with Netgem TV in the UK, which […]

Global media company SPI/FilmBox has announced the extension of the distribution deal with Swiss telco Swisscom for SPI’s 4K/UHD lifestyle channel, FunBox UHD, which features hundreds of hours of UHD programming on culture, travel, lifestyle, art, music and more. The channel will continue to be available via Swisscom’s blue TV service with German and English […]

Sunrise UPC, the Swiss telcom, has launched its cloud gaming service with 4K resolution via 5G, for iOS (iPhone, iPads) and MacOS devices (MacBooks, iMacs, etc.). Over 100 games are now available via 5G or Wi-Fi on almost all mobile devices and – also new – directly on all Samsung smart TV models. Two new […]

The 8K Association followed up the recent announcement of TCL televisions adding The Explorers 8K channel by speaking with Gilles Dassac, CTO at The Explorers, and Aaron Dew, Director of Product Development at TCL North America. Dassac says that the natural and human heritage channel now has more than 40 hours of exclusive 8K material […]

Electronics giant Samsung says it has already sold more than 1 million of its ‘The Frame’ high-end TVs this year. The year-end 2021 total is likely to top 2 million units with the heaviest demand from North America and European markets. Samsung makes much of The Frame saying it is much more than a TV […]

The DVB Steering Board has approved specification updates that introduce capabilities to deliver 8K UHD video services for the first time. These updates, extending existing support for the HEVC codec, are the first step in a series of key additions planned for the DVB video coding specifications. These will ensure that DVB continues to provide […]

Taiwan-based smart-home technology company MediaTek and fabrication plant TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co) have unveiled what they say is the world’s first 7-nanometer 8K digital TV flagship system-on-chip (SoC), the MediaTek Pentonic 2000. Built with TSMC’s N7 advanced process technology, the MediaTek Pentonic 2000 offers “unparalleled performance and power efficiency with features including powerful artificial […]

LG Electronics says it has now shipped more than 10 million units of its high-end OLED televisions. The overall enthusiasm for OLED screens is now achieving sales at a far faster rate. Premium grade OLEDs have been available since 2013, but it took the South Korean electronics giant seven years to reach the 5 million […]