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Italy’s Telecapri claims 3D innovation

Italian regional TV channel TeleCapri has started trial broadcasts in 3D on its DTT multiplex covering the Campania region. Thanks to an innovative system developed by engineer Gregorio Pietrangelo, viewing in 3D will be possible on both the new generation of TVs already compatible with 3D as well as conventional TV sets through the use […]

February 14, 2013From Branislav Pekic in Rome

Apple’s Cook: “OLED screens are awful”

Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO delivered his views on the growing enthusiasm for OLED screens. “They’re awful,” he told an investor conference organised by Goldman Sachs in San Francisco. “If you ever buy anything online and really want to know what the colour is, as many people do, you should really think twice before you depend […]

February 13, 2013By Chris Forrester

Doctor Who going 3D

Doctor Who will celebrate its birthday this year with a special 3D edition on November 23rd – exactly 50 years after its first ever adventure. Viewers will be able to see the 3D version of the episode entitled “An Unearthly Child” on the BBC HD channel. Doctor Who’s executive producer and lead writer, Steven Moffat, […]

February 12, 2013

HDTV in three-quarters of US households

Research from analysis firm Leichtman Research Group (LRG) has revealed found that 75 per cent of households in the US have at least one high definition television (HDTV) set – up from 23 per cent five years ago. Over the past five years, 52 per cent of US households adopted HDTV. In addition, 51 per […]

February 8, 2013

Brazil’s 8K carnival for NHK

This weekend is Carnival in Rio, as well as in many other countries in the build-up to ‘Fat Tuesday’ (Mardi Gras) events around the world. TV has the Rio de Janeiro event well covered with TV Globo and Japan’s NHK using around 150 technicians to cover the event. The signals are also being streamed on […]

February 8, 2013By Chris Forrester

Sky F1 coverage goes 3D

Sky and Formula 1 will bring viewers another world first with live F1 coverage on Sky 3D from the third test at the Circuit de Catalunya Sky 3D viewers can watch live coverage of Formula 1 across all four days of the third test from February 28th to March 3rd at the Circuit de Catalunya. […]

February 6, 2013

1 in 5 buy HDTV for Super Bowl

Nearly a quarter of high-definition television (HDTV) owners in the US (22 per cent) purchased their televisions for the specific purpose of watching the Super Bowl, according to the forthcoming Sports and Technology Study V by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). No other sporting event comes close to prompting that many purchases of HDTVs. Accordingly, […]

February 1, 2013

Sony re-masters content in 4K

Sony Pictures Television is already shooting up-to-date TV series in the new 4K Ultra-HDTV/1 format to supply content into the growing flow of 4K-enabled displays available in the market. New TV shows being shot in 4K include Save Me starring Anne Heche and due to air this Spring on NBC, and Masters of Sex starring […]

February 1, 2013By Chris Forrester

7m 4K displays sold by 2016

The displays are incredibly expensive, there’s next to nothing to view on them, and zero by way of consumer playback equipment – yet seemingly more than a half-million 4K displays will be sold this year, according to data from NPD Display Search. Sales volumes will ramp up as retail prices fall, reaching more than 7 […]

January 30, 2013By Chris Forrester

CBS to capture Super Bowl in 4K

CBS Sport says it will use up to 70 cameras to capture this Sunday’s 47th Super Bowl game in New Orleans, and six of them will be native 4K high frame-rate For-A FT-One cameras. The units will be used to circle the ground and cover the action from every angle. Additional ‘beauty cams’ will include […]

January 30, 2013By Chris Forrester