Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland will start broadcasting its Ultra HD channel ‘RTL UHD’ to German viewers from April 28th, via SES’s HD platform HD+. The Ultra HD channel will begin with the live transmission of the Formula 1 race from Baku, Azerbaijan, and will subsequently broadcast 17 races of the 2018 season, while distributing all the […]
Sharp used the pre-IFA Global Press event last week to announce the price of its Aquos 70” display – at measly €11,199 for European buyers. The units will be in stores by the end of April. The displays were announced at Berlin’s IFA show last August, and Sascha Lange, Sharp’s VP/Marketing & Sales, said the […]
The BBC has streamed a full Rugby League match between the York City Knights and Catalans Dragons live in UHD and High Dynamic Range on BBC iPlayer Beta, marking the first time the broadcaster has streamed a live event in the format. Writing in the BBC Technology and Creativity Blog, Phil Layton, Head of Broadcast […]
LG Electronics has launched its 2018 TV line-up with an array of new and innovative OLED and SUPER UHD models. For 2018, LG has introduced new TV products featuring the company’s ThinQ artificial intelligence (AI) technology and advanced α (Alpha) processor which itssays will lead the way in solidifying LG’s position in the global market […]
Advanced Television reports on Sony’s UHD HDR Theatre at MIP TV. On our .tv streaming channel you can watch interviews and learn from the creative experience of practitioners talking about UHD HDR location shooting, deployment for drama, editing and grading, storage and workflow and an update from NHK on their 8K roadmap. Advanced Television TV […]
Canadian multiplay telco TELUS is claiming to have once again raised the bar for TV in Canada with the launch of 4K HDR on its Optik TV IPTV service. Already the only TV provider in Western Canada to offer live and On Demand 4K content, TELUS is now the only one to support 4K HDR, […]
Satellite operator SES is now beaming a dozen Ultra-HD channels to viewers in the US. According to Steve Corda, SES’ VP/Media Platforms, and speaking at the recent NAB event in Las Vegas, more than 30 cable and IPTV operators are now taking its UHD signals, and Verizon FiOS and Frontier Communications are testing 4K carriage […]
Sky Deutschland will launch the advanced Sky Q service next month. Sky Q will be available to all its pay-TV subscribers in Germany and Austria, with Sky+ Pro subscribers receiving the upgrade at no extra cost. Sky Q will also be offered automatically to all new Sky customers. Unlike in the UK and Italy, where […]
Travelxp, the 4K global travel channel reaching over 75 million homes, has launched a new food-driven show and added three new destinations to its globally popular ongoing series. Nisha Chothani, Director – Travelxp, said, “I am delighted to announce the launch of a unique new show, Thali – The Great Indian Meal, celebrating different, unusual […]
Ultra-HD is making significant progress around the world (channel count up 27 per cent) in particular over the past six months, according to data from Eutelsat presented at last week’s MIPTV programming market in Cannes. Claudia Vaccarone (Eutelsat’s Director of Global Market Research) told delegates that Eutelsat was carrying about 33 per cent of the […]