Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

Sony scores with 4K World Cup screening

Sony – together with a range of technical partners – is claiming a new milestone in live sports entertainment with the world-first screening July 4th in 4K Ultra High Definition of the France versus Germany World Cup quarter final match at the Vue multiplex at Westfield, London. Sony and Vue Cinemas were working with technical […]

July 7, 2014By Colin Mann

India to get Ultra-HD

Videocon’s d2h pay-TV service is to offer consumers 4K/Ultra-HD transmissions, and says it is determined to be first to the India market and ahead of TataSky, Dish TV and the other DTH suppliers. Videocon d2h has some 11 million subscribers, and the market is anticipating it mounting an IPO this year. Videocon d2h currently supplies […]

July 4, 2014By Chris Forrester

DVB approves UHDTV HEVC delivery profile

A significant step in the road to Ultra High Definition TV services has been taken with the approval of the DVB-UHDTV Phase 1 specification at the 77th meeting of the DVB Steering Board. The specification includes an HEVC Profile for DVB broadcasting services that draws, from the options available with HEVC, those that will match […]

July 4, 2014

Samsung drops download service

Samsung is closing its own download video and audio rental and purchase businesses in North America. It has already disabled its own Samsung Video & Media Hub on July 1st in the US, although Samsung’s ‘Smart Hub’ on-screen options will continue to offer viewers and users access to iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu and other service […]

July 3, 2014By Chris Forrester

NRJ Hits trials Ultra-HD in Paris

French pay-TV music channel NRJ Hits has commenced two-weeks of Ultra-HD broadcasts on the Paris DTT network using DVB-T2 standard – with part of the tests being authorised by TV regulator CSA and handled by TDF. “It is the first time a French channel can trial UHD broadcast in real conditions through all the broadcasting […]

July 3, 2014From Pascale Paoli-Lebailly in Paris

Sony, IDC for U-HD World Cup in Vue cinemas

Sony and Vue Cinemas will be working with technical partners IDC, Eutelsat and DSAT Cinema to deliver a World Cup quarter final match and the final in Ultra-HD on 4th and 13th July, at Vue’s state-of-the-art multiplex in Westfield, London. The two matches will be streamed live via satellite from the iconic Estadio Jornalista Mario […]

June 27, 2014

European 4K readiness: Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden ahead

Akamai Technologies, a provider of cloud services for delivering, optimising and securing online content and business applications, has released its First Quarter, 2014 State of the Internet Report. Based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the report provides insight into key global statistics such as connection speeds, overall attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, […]

June 27, 2014

Envivio, Globosat deliver 4K World Cup to S. America

Showing the promise of 4K TV to early adopters of next generation TV technology, Envivio has announced that Globosat, a leading content provider to cable, satellite and IPTV operators in South America, has added Envivio as one of Globosat’s partners to broadcast live the quarter, semi-final and final 2014 World Cup games in Ultra-HD. “4K […]

June 27, 2014

BBC Ultra-HD broadcast for Commonwealth Games

In what it says could be a watershed moment in the history of broadcasting, BBC Research and Development is to broadcast certain elements of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games live in Ultra-High Definition (UHD) at a public showcase in the host city. The special R&D production will be shown live in the Glasgow Science Centre […]

June 26, 2014

RTVE launches 4K DTT channel

Spain’s TV pubcaster RTVE has launched a pilot 4K Ultra-HD channel, La pasión del Prado, a documentary channel that broadcast a 50 minute documentary shot in 4K based on the history of the Madrid gallery and the works of art housed there. To produce the documentary, TVE has used the latest compression technologies under the […]

June 26, 2014From David Del Valle in Madrid