The production of OLED screens is proving to be a real headache, says Paul Gray, director of TV research at consultancy DisplaySearch. He says that factories are only getting one good panel out of every 10 panels at 55-inches. “Production problems are making it very, very tough,” he said. “There was a lot of hype […]
SES has linked with Harmonic and chip-set manufacturer Broadcom to create what it describes as the first Ultra-HDTV transmissions using the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) from Astra’s 19.2 degrees European hot spot. SES says using the HEVC compression improves transmission capacity by some 50 per cent. The end-to-end demonstration was showcased at SES Industry […]
Kunihko Miyagi, president of Panasonic’s imaging division, has told The Hollywood Reporter that his company’s plans for 4K embrace the entire TV production cycle. “We are developing a 4K system – a whole set of products – to allow for affordable 4K production,” he said. “Everything we make in HD will be 4K.” He says […]
Eutelsat is making its 4K Ultra-HDTV demo channel available to Digiturk. Broadcasting from Eutelsat’s 7A satellite, which is also home to Digiturk’s pay-TV neighbourhood, the first demo transmission took place on April 2nd and has now been opened up to a wider audience limited only by the lack of receiving equipment. Emre Uysal, Digiturk’s Product […]
A proposed solution to help drive the retail take-up of UltraViolet-enabled content emerged victorious in a Dragon’s Den-style entertainment innovation session that closed PEVE Entertainment 2013 in London. Rudi Martinez, Head of Concept Design at London-based packaging solutions specialist AGI-Shorewood Group, pitching the digicode idea to a panel of three senior executives at event organiser […]
Seiki Digital has unveiled a 50” Ultra-HDTV 4K television display for a bargain $1,499. It goes on sale in the next few days in the USA, and the company is promising a 65” model later this year at a similar low price. “The introduction of Ultra HDTV is perhaps the biggest news since the first […]
Although admitting it is “early days” in the consumer life-cycle of 4K viewing, Jim Underwood, Executive VP, Worldwide Digital and Commercial Strategy, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, says its progress has gone beyond the point of wondering whether it can become a reality. Delivering a keynote speech at PEVE Entertainment 2013 in London, he told delegates: […]
Japan’s public broadcaster NHK is to show an 8K short movie at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. The film, Beauties À La Carte, was shot in NHK’s 8K Super Hi-Vision format complete with 22.2 channel sound. “The production of Beauties À La Carte is part of our efforts to understand the technical challenges of producing […]
Electronics giant Panasonic is to cease R&D and shortly production of its famed plasma displays, reckoned by many to be amongst the best in the business. Instead, Panasonic will switch to OLED developments. Panasonic is not the first high-end manufacturer to admit that it’s tough to maintain a profit margin on the increasingly price-squeezed High […]
Gary Davey, SVP Programming at Sky Deutschland, speaking at MIPTV’s special 4K event, said he believed that at least half of Sky’s current portfolio of 65 HDTV channels would be showing 4K content within five years of Sky launching a dedicated 4K Ultra-HDTV channel. “I suspect SES will be first in supplying a feed of […]