Last week an EBU-sponsored meeting took place in London under its umbrella ‘Beyond HD’ programme. “Combining the professional forces of the EBU and the DVB project helped to draw all major players to the workshop, which was held at Dolby’s London premises to allow a number of companies that are active in DVB and BeyondHD, […]
Sony Electronics is using every form of publicity to bang the drum for its new Ultra-HD 4K displays, now appearing in department stores, Sony Stores and Best Buy retail outlets. It has hired director Garth Davis as well as Oscar-winning cinematographer Claudio Miranda to make its TV commercial, and an expanded showcase of the 4K […]
TV panel makers are betting on a high rate of growth for Ultra-High Definition (UHD) LCD TVs during the next four years. These companies expect to ship nearly 943,000 UHD LCD panels this year, up from less than 33,000 units in 2012, according to IHS. The next two years will see shipments ramp up even […]
Sony says it will assess a proposal from its biggest shareholder, Daniel Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund, that the group should sell up to a fifth of its music and movies business. Loeb argues a partial spin-off of Sony Entertainment would free up cash to help the struggling electronics division and could boost Sony’s stock […]
Bringing an end to a full year of declines, global flat-panel television shipments rose slightly in the first quarter, paving the way for marginal growth in 2013, according to the “Monthly Worldwide FPD TV Shipment Data Report” from the IHS TV Systems Intelligence Service at information and analytics provider IHS. Global shipments of flat-panel televisions […]
YahLive, the HD television satellite platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, SES, the DTH global satellite broadcast operator, and ChannelSculptor, a Dubai-based TV content and broadcast consultancy, have revealed that whilst MENA may be ahead of Europe in terms of HDTV demand as measured by high HDTV screen sales, increased channel […]
A few months ago, a 55” or 65” Sony Bravia 4K television would have cost both arms and legs. Now Sony has looked again and they’ll only cost one arm and a leg! ‘Priced to sell’ might be Sony’s mantra for these Bravia X9 LED beasts, which still come it at €4,500 for the 55” […]
Japan’s public broadcaster has shown what it claims is the world’s first 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ movie. The film was shown on May 16th and 17th and was a short comedy entitled Beauties À La Carte. In addition, NHK will showcase other types of 8K programming on a giant 220” TV screen with what they claim […]
Dubai-based My-HD is launching a low-cost all-HD bundle of 20 channels exclusively using Arabsat and with the aim of dramatically undercutting the prices charged by the Middle East’s existing pay-TV bouquets of OSN, Al Jazeera Sports and Abu Dhabi Sports. CEO Cliff Nelson, who was until recently SVP-Operations & Platform Development at OSN, and had […]
A flawless lift-off and a 9 hour launch process onboard a Proton-Breeze M rocket saw the successful launch of a new Eutelsat satellite to the 3 degrees East position. The satellite is built by Thales Alenia Space and lift-off from the Baikonur launch site took place on May 14th at 16.02 GMT. Some 12 hours […]