GrayMeta, an AI powered metadata company, has announced the integration of its Iris Media Platform by Sky UK across their UHD content workflows to drive quality control. Sky in now using the GrayMeta Iris Media Platform for all their UHD, HDR and IMF content workflows. Sky QC operators are now able to monitor the technical metadata […]
Multiplay operator Altice Europe has agreed a content partnership with Amazon Prime Video which will see the US SVoD service’s original creations available on French pay-TV service SFR. Content such as The Boys, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Good Omens, The Man in the High Castle, and the upcoming Carnival Row, will be accessible shortly to […]
The 5G era is set to drive the next wave of growth in video streaming, with 78 per cent of US consumers indicating they will expand this activity as they adopt the next-generation wireless standard in smartphones and home-networking solutions, according to a survey conducted by IHS Markit Digital Orbit. When asked to name which […]
Sky will start offering programming from Love Nature, the all-4K channel which is owned by Canada-based Blue Ant Media, later this year the channel will broadcast as part of Sky’s ‘on demand’ service and to UK, Germany and Italian subscribers. However, with precious few UHD channel transmissions available, will this move start something of a […]
Organisers of the Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan have suggested that Asia’s first tournament will set new standards in rugby broadcast production, providing a record global footprint and attracting new fans and showcasing the sport in higher quality than ever before, with 8K coverage being offered to the Japanese domestic market via NHK, and […]
Fans of wildlife and nature will soon have access to hundreds of hours of 4K TV on demand as Blue Ant Media’s ‘Love Nature’ content is set to come to millions of Sky homes across the UK and in Europe later this year. With awe-inspiring content filmed across 40 countries, Love Nature makes more original […]
TCL, one of the world’s best-selling and America’s fastest-growing television brand, has announced pricing and US availability of its new TCL Roku TV models within the company’s all-new 8-Series, as well as the popular 5- and 6-Series. In 2019, both 8- and 6-Series Roku TV models are adopting Quantum Dot (QLED) colour technology for even […]
LG Electronics has revealed the results of an experiment in collaboration with Realeyes – the emotion AI company – to analyse the physical and emotional responses to its 2019 OLED TV versus its 2013 LED TV, the latter representing the most common type of TV in homes across the UK. To inform the experiment, LG […]
Just about every original programme and commissioned series on Netflix is made under their ‘4K obligations’. Indeed, the OTT streamer is so tough on film and programme-makers that it will not permit original material to be shot on one of the industry’s most popular cameras, the ARRI Alexa. The rules affect ARRI’s highly-regarded Alexa cameras […]
Samsung and KT (the former Korea Telecom) report they have successfully trialled broadcasting 8K signals using Ka-band frequencies from Korea’s Cheollian satellite and then re-transmitted the images terrestrially. The pair say they used H.265 compression and DVB-S2x as the transmission method, and decoded the signals in HDMI real time and fed into a Samsung 82” […]