My-HD Media, a Dubai based Satellite-TV platform, has announced a strategic, long-term partnership with MBC Group to distribute all seven MBC HD channels; the agreement is the first step of upcoming expansions that represent a considerable opportunity for both MBC and My-HD to significantly upgrade consumers’ viewing experience. Viewers who purchase My-HD approved receivers or […]
Japan’s public broadcaster is targeting to start test transmissions of its advanced Ultra-HDTV format by 2016, some four years earlier than originally planned. NHK’s director general for engineering, Dr Keiichi Kubota, delivered the news at a London demonstration of Super-HDTV held at London’s Olympic Park. NHK, along with the BBC and other partners, are using […]
Sony’s has lowered its full-year earnings forecast as it battles a strong yen and declining sales of LCD TVs and games consoles. The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant reported a quarterly loss of ¥24.6 billion (£202m) compared with a ¥15.5 billion loss a year earlier. Tokyo-based Sony lowered its earnings forecast for the business year […]
NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster has unveiled the prototype for its new lightweight Super Hi-Vision (SHV) camera for the first time outside Japan. The camera, which has been significantly reduced in size and weight since the first prototype in 2002, brings SHV technology into focus as a viable domestic broadcasting format in the near future. SHV […]
Getting ready for next-generation OLED display production forms a major focus for big screen manufacturers. Now Samsung is reported to have perfected 350 pixels-per-inch (ppi) technology using its Fine Metal Mesh high-density concept. If the report is validated, it means Samsung has ‘beaten’ Apple’s current ‘Retina’ displays which manage a quite superb 326 ppi display […]
Liberty-backed Cablevision in Puerto Rico has added Olympic Games 3D coverage on a dedicated channel. Cablevision, in essence, is relaying NBC’s Olympics 3D channel for local consumption as an add-on to the island’s existing 72 HDTV channel offering. Cablevision has some 79,000 subscribers. Back in June, it acquired cable operator OneLink and the plan, once […]
This Friday (July 27th) SES will unveil its latest financial numbers, but ahead of those figures, it says that it is now leading its rivals in terms of HDTV deployment, and is carrying more than 1,300 high-def channels. They comprise more than 25 per cent of the 5200 channels carried by the SES fleet. As […]
NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, and Panasonic Corporation of North America have revealed that the first-ever 3D coverage of the London 2012 Olympic Games, will be available to subscribers of MVPDs (multichannel video programming distributors) representing nearly 80 per cent of US TV households. The daily 3D programming, which will be […]
Sensio Technologies has announced a 3D VoD licensing agreement with Starz Digital Media -the digital and on-demand licensing arm of Starz Media – to make select 3D movies available for on-demand rental on Sensio’s 3DGO! service. Available in autumn 2012 across the US, 3DGO! is a dedicated 3D transactional VoD service that will offer a […]
At the Samsung SpaceFest, the South Korean electronics giant has unveiled its new 75-inch ES9000 LED Smart 3D TV. It will go on sale next month for $9,999. Samsung also demonstrated an app of the popular Angry Birds game on the TV, which could be played using motion-controlled gestures. “We couldn’t imagine a better way […]