Madrid-based satellite operator Hispasat used its giant Amazonas 3 satellite to beam 4K Ultra-HDTV signals into Brazil. The test signals went to – at least one – 84” LG receiver at an event in Rio to help celebrate the coming into use of the new Amazonas 3 satellite. Hispasat hasd earlier trialled 4K/Ultra HDTV at […]
HD+, the encrypted high-definition service for Germany, is making progress. SES’s latest numbers to March 31st, say that it now has 1.1 million subscribers, up 158, 768 since December 31st (when the total stood at 944,933). Expressed as a percentage this represents growth of 17 per cent during the quarter-year. The growth means that the […]
UPC DTH, the leading satellite television provider in Central and Eastern Europe, has confirmed that UPC Direct, servicing Hungary, will showcase in cooperation with Sport 1 HD this year’s Champions League final in cutting edge 3D. On May 25th, UPC Direct will broadcast the event in 3D to anyone that has access to a 3D […]
Coverage of this past winter’s ‘X Games 16’ from Aspen, Colorado, has won a Sports EMMY for the Jim Cameron- Vince Pace technical team. The EMMY award was given in New York to Cameron-PaceGroup (CPG) for their work in capturing the event in 3D for ESPN’s 3D channel. The award (for Outstanding Technical Team Remote) […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK says it has a solution for encoding its 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ transmissions. Working with Mitsubishi Electric, NHK says the pair has jointly developed the world’s first rack-mounted High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) encoder and decoder for 8K transmission. HEVC itself is well on its way to being a fixed standard for […]
Pay-TV is doing extremely well in South America, especially for DirecTV. Sky Brazil is DirectTV’s platform for Brazil (and TV Globo has a 7 per cent stake) with more than 5 million subscribers. However, there are grumbles from a growing list of would-be HD broadcasters which want to add high-def channels to the existing 45 […]
Rovi, the digital entertainment expert, has announced that Toshiba is launching a range of DTVs Certified for DivX Plus Streaming. The latest agreement will help increase the reach of Rovi’s advanced adaptive streaming format and enable Toshiba DTVs to support entertainment services from over-the-top providers such as KNOWHOW Movies by Dixons Retail in the UK. […]
SENSIO has launched a new 3D VoDservice, 3DGO! in the US that offers more than 40 premium 3D titles that can be accessed through all 3D TVs that are compliant with SENSIO Hi-Fi 3D technology. The service is offered free on VIZIO’s Smart TVs with Theatre 3D. Speaking at the launch, Richard LaBerge, executive vice […]
Samsung is preparing to launch a £14 million (€17.3m) marketing campaign to promote the S Recommendation and Smart Interaction features of its Smart TV range. The eight-week TV element of the campaign begins straight away and will feature a stampede of Roman Centurions, American footballers, Maori Warriors, police cars and cheerleaders charging towards a man […]
Sony’s top executives, including Kazuo Hirai the chief executive, are skipping bonuses worth between 30 and 50 per cent of their pay after they failed to deliver on returning the group’s consumer electronics division to profit. The bonuses, estimated at roughly Y1 billion ($10m) in total, were to have been paid for work done in […]