French PSB group France Télévisions is launching France TV Sport UHD 4K, a new 24-hour channel debuting at the Roland-Garros tennis open. Operated in partnership with the Fédération Française de Tennis, the 4K channel will give free access to the top matches played on the Philippe Chatrier centre court during the two-week long event. Fourteen […]
BT is making the 2019 UEFA Europa League Final and the UEFA Champions League Final available for anyone in the UK to watch whether on TV, online or on mobile. Both finals will be available for free on the BT Sport website, on the BT Sport YouTube channel and via the BT Sport App for […]
Mumbai-based Travelxp’s 4K HDR version launched earlier this week on Deutsche Telekom’s Magenta TV package. Travelxp is very much ‘all 4K’ and for the past year or so has been shooting only in HDR thus giving viewers the true ‘Wow’ factor. “‘One world and no boundaries’ has always been the core philosophy of Travelxp. The […]
The Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) is providing a testing ground for new audio technology that is transforming the way content is produced and consumed. The EBU and its technology partners are mounting a parallel production of the event, mixing and transmitting it live with Next Generation Audio in the MPEG-H Audio format. The content is […]
IABM has released its latest Buying Trends Report. The report analyses the financial performance of media companies for the six months to December 2018 and qualitative analysis based on pre-NAB Show 2019 buying trends survey data. Revenue growth has improved from 5.3 per cent to 9.3 per cent while profit growth remains negative at -2.4 […]
SES is holding its annual ‘Industry Days’ event at its Luxembourg HQ and is using the event to showcase how satellite can handle 8K content. SES says this is the first-ever demo of 8K-by-satellite being transmitted directly to an 82” flat-screen 8K set (from Samsung) with a built-in satellite receiver capable of decoding the signal. […]
Sweta Dash, president of market research consultancy Dash-Insights, and writing in Display Daily, has said there is a “massive” amount of LCD capacity coming into production over the next 3 years, particularly from Chinese factories. “There is a race for revenue and profit growth as competition is accelerating and price pressure is increasing,” she said, […]
Hub’s inaugural study on entertainment technology, Entertainment in the Connected Home, shows that even though ownership of new connected devices in the US is high, many who own them don’t use most of their core capabilities. Highlights from the study include: 1) Half of TV homes is the US now have a 4K set – […]
Chinese cellular giant Huawei, which last week was widely reported to planning to enter the TV market with displays equipped to operate on 5G and be capable of receiving 8K signals, has declared the reports were wrong. “We don’t do TV’s,” said an unnamed source quoted by CGTN Digital. But then came the potential contradiction, […]
French PSB France Télévisions is to stream more than 100 hours live in 8K over 5G, in association with Orange during the upcoming Roland-Garros tennis open (May 26th-June 9th). Images will be transmitted from the Philippe-Chatrier centre court and the 8K UHD live premiere will be tested in partnership with industry majors from the USA, […]