Movistar Plus is upgrading its pay-TV platform adding new functionalities including a voice-controlled remote and double-screen option to watch two different channels at the simultaneously. It is also adding new services including Apple TV+. The platform is boosting its UHD content with more football matches and original TV series. Movistar says that around 30 per […]
A group of Spanish broadcasters and programme makers have joined to form ‘UHD Spain’ and with a focus on 4K as well as future iterations including 8K, Higher Frame Rates and Wider Colour Gamut. They held their first meeting in Madrid on February 12th at the Prado del Rey offices of public broadcaster RTVE. The […]
Insight TV, the 4K HDR broadcaster, will now offer its UHD feed Europe-wide aboard Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD satellite located at 13° East. This additional broadcasting format enables distributors full access to Insight TV’s UHD feed across Europe and the Middle East. Distributors will now be able to offer their European and Middle Eastern viewers Insight TV’s […]
Multiplay telco Swisscom says it is continuing to break down the barriers between television and streaming with the introduction, from January 27th, of ‘Swisscom TV X’, which it claims will make the best Swisscom TV and the most popular streaming service Netflix available at a discounted price, with hundreds of channels, 1,200 hours of recording, […]
Japanese broadcasters will take it in tuns to cover this summer’s Tokyo Olympic Games events. Five major TV networks, additional to full time transmissions from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, will also be allowed to cover the games on rotating days. The event runs for 15 days (from July 24th) and coverage will be split with […]
South Korea’s LG Display says it expects to ship 6 million of its OLED TV screens this year, double the quantity of 2019. Speaking at CES the LG divisional CEO Jeong Ho-young told the media that despite facing multiple difficulties at the company it would continue expanding its OLED and LCD businesses although the first-half […]
The first US consumer television receivers equipped with NEXTGEN TV capabilities are coming to retail stores later in 2020, with the announcements at CES 2020 from the biggest names in the TV industry launching 20 ATSC 3.0-enabled TV models. The introductions by LG Electronics, Samsung and Sony mirror the initial nationwide rollout of NEXTGEN TV […]
HDR10+ Technologies, LLC, a joint venture of 20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation and Samsung Electronics has revealed that the total number of adopters has increased to 94. New partners, such as VIZIO and GooglePlay have added support of HDR10+ on their products. The organisation also announced new advances to the HDR10+ Logo and Certification programme, […]
The rising popularity of streaming services along with 5G connectivity and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled devices will drive revenue growth for the US consumer tech industry to a record $422 billion (€377.4bn) in retail revenues in 2020 – nearly 4 per cent growth over last year, according to a Consumer Technology Association (CTA) report. Unveiled at […]
TiVo has announced TiVo Stream 4K at CES, an easy-to-use streamer with live TV and Cloud DVR from the Sling TV app, plus a number of other content services. TiVo said the service will “give consumers the power to create the bundle they want across multiple entertainment sources using a smart, intuitive interface making it […]