Sharp has released what it claims is the biggest LED TV ever to go on sale in Europe. The Aquos LC-90LE757 features a 90 inch (229cm) screen, trumping an 84 inch display from LG. Sharp has offered the size in the US since June 2012 – the world’s biggest market for jumbo-TVs – but said […]
Astro, Malaysia’s largest pay-TV operator, aims to complete the conversion of its customers’ legacy set-top boxes to the B.yond HD platform by the year-end, said chief executive officer Datuk Rohana Rozhan. “We saw over 64 per cent of customers during the first quarter subscribing to HD and other value-added services, which in turn drove up […]
MEASAT Satellite Systems has begun trials with communications technology and services specialist Ericsson to demonstrate the ability to provide live Ultra High Definition TV (UHDTV) video contribution over MEASAT’s satellite network. According to Ericsson, as UHDTV gains momentum and operators explore how it can become part of the future roadmap, there remains the challenge of […]
Sky Sports will dedicate an entire channel to cricket this summer, providing coverage of men’s, women’s and youth matches including this summer’s Ashes series. Sky will commit one channel – Sky Sports Ashes HD – to cricket offering 63 days of action between June 30th and August 31st, including exclusively live ball-by-ball coverage of the […]
US sports giant ESPN has confirmed it is shutting down its dedicated 3D channel. ESPN 3D launched in 2010 on the back of considerable enthusiasm and helped by success in Hollywood from movies such as Avatar. ESPN says there were too few viewers to make 3D broadcasts worth the effort. According to SNL Kagan it […]
The first 55″ AMOLED TV is on the market, with others expected to follow; however, the cost of AMOLED panels will remain very high compared to TFT LCD display panels, limiting adoption by consumers. Current manufacturing costs for AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) display panels are estimated to be almost seven times higher than costs […]
Japanese telco NTT West will stream 4k video over the Internet to set-top boxes this week, in what it claims is the world’s first public test of the technology. NTT will conduct a three-day trial in Tokyo during a digital media seminar from June 12th to June 14th. The telco said it will use the […]
At Cable 2013, CableLabs and Broadcom demonstrated “the path to next-generation service delivery” unveiling a live demonstration of Multi-Gbps HFC access using core technologies from the DOCSIS 3.1 specifications. In the demo, next-generation cable transport – including DOCSIS 3.1 and EPoC (EPON Protocol over Coax) – use technologies from Broadcom to encode digital data across […]
Sony Professional is transporting one of its London mobile OB Ultra-HDTV units to Brazil for the upcoming Confederations Cup football tournament. Sony Brazil’s VP of professional video says that no live transmissions will be made but material will be recorded for test use by FIFA and enthusiastic 4K supporter TV Globo. The planned 4K coverage […]
The Spanish pubcaster RTVE is to strengthen its International TV service with the launch of a HDTV channel dedicated to TV series and films that would be added to its existing offer of the news channel Canal 24 Horas and the International version of TVE 1, TVE Internacional. This latter channel is distributed in four […]