Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) has bought 90 4K video camcorders for its news-gatherers from Panasonic Business. Panasonic initially provided RTS with its AJ-PX 270 Micro P2 units to test along with models from competing brands, to replace their ageing equipment. The field reporters on the RTS editorial team had been using the same camcorders for […]
ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the ATP World Tour carried out a live 4K v 1080p HDR test at the Nitto ATP Finals, the season ending finale held in November 2017 at The O2, London. The test was designed to see side-by-side, the two production formats in a live tennis environment, as part of […]
LG Electronics, co-developer of the ATSC 3.0 next-generation television broadcast standard, has confirmed that all LG 4K Ultra HD TVs now on the market in South Korea already incorporate ATSC 3.0 tuning circuitry. At CES 2018 in Las Vegas, where the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) officially released the new suite of standards, LG announced […]
While CES very much focuses on the hardware needed to best display 4K (and perhaps even 8K) content, the production end of the value chain is also looking to boost availability of 4K programming. Stuart Smitherman, president of Vivicast Media, says that a year or so ago Ultra HD was very much about scenic landscapes […]
Excitement about emerging technologies and the resilience of historically leading categories will drive the US consumer technology industry to a record-breaking $351 billion in retail revenues ($266 billion wholesale) in 2018 – 3.9 per cent higher than 2017, according to research from the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The latest edition of CTA’s semi-annual industry report, […]
Kazuo Hirai, Sony’s CEO, speaking at CES in Las Vegas, was an able and enthusiastic spokesman for his TV division stressing it was very much here to stay. “We have really shifted our product focus to more high-end [products] with 4K and OLED and from a profits point of view it is now a very […]
Haier, a global player in consumer electronics and appliances, has announced an expanded partnership with Google to launch multiple series of Google Android TV products globally in 2018. “Haier is expanding on the success of Haier Chromecast built in televisions, by taking the next step and enhancing our partnership with Google on a global basis,” […]
20th Century Fox, Panasonic Corporation and Samsung Electronics have announced updates to the associated certification and logo programme for the open, royalty-free dynamic metadata platform for High Dynamic Range (HDR), called HDR10+ which they initially announced in September 2017 at IFA. The HDR10+ platform will soon be made available to content companies, ultra-high definition TVs, […]
Amongst the slew of giant screens, all Ultra-HD and usually HDR or Dolby Vision-equipped, few expected South Korean electronics giant Samsung to do much at CES 2018 that was truly spectacular. But it managed to pull a massive rabbit out of its box of tricks and showcased a truly exciting development for TV – and […]
Funai Electric, the exclusive North American licensee for Philips consumer televisions and home video products, has confirmed that Technicolor HDR will be integrated into US market 2019 Philips televisions in conjunction with the launch of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard. Work is underway to include HDR in the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, expected to be […]