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 […]
There were strong calls from satellite executives, speaking at CASBAA’s Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, to pull their fingers out and start transmitting in Ultra-HD, even with the less than perfect transmission protocols currently in place. Thomas Wrede, VP/broadcast systems at SES, while confirming that Ultra-HD would likely be a mass-market proposition by 2019-2020, also […]
Technology trade association the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has announced updated core characteristics for Ultra High-Definition (UHD) TVs, monitors and projectors for the home. As devised and approved by CEA’s Video Division Board, these characteristics build on the first-generation UHD characteristics released by the CEA in October 2012. These expanded display characteristics (CEA’s Ultra High-Definition […]
EBU, the provider of the live sports delivery platform to broadcasters worldwide, is carrying over its satellite capacities worldwide of all World Cup matches in HD format and also all of the 4K television production of the 2014 tournament in Brazil. The 4K live coverage includes the matches on June 28th (Round of 16), July […]
The BBC has started its Ultra-HD closed trials from the World Cup tournament in Brazil. The BBC Research & Development department has partnered with Arqiva for the trials that will use the latest DVB-DASH profile IP. In a blog post Phil Layton, Head of Broadcast & Connected Systems at the BBC, outlined what the trials […]
Many of the world’s broadcasters are looking to the next stage in transmission, namely so-called Ultra-HDTV (usually called 4K). But NHK, Japan’s public broadcaster, is making a huge show in Brazil of its ultimate plan, which is to see 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ start broadcasting in 2020. NHK is capturing some of the current FIFA World […]
This summer’s football World Cup is proving to be the most accessible in the tournament’s history, with broadcast and streaming services available on up to 5.9 billion screens globally. This is according to research firm Ovum, which reveals that PCs, tablets, and smartphones are providing alternatives to conventional TV viewing, accounting for 57 per cent […]
Findings from market research and consulting firm NSR’s newly released Global Direct-to-Home (DTH) Markets, 7th Edition suggest that by 2023, nearly 300 Ultra-HD TV channels will be broadcast globally by DTH operators, with Ultra-HD present in every region worldwide within the next decade. This exceptional growth will
Satellite operator SES’s new CEO, Karim Michel Sabbagh, in a major speech at the CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum in Singapore, said that despite pay-TV DTH being challenged in some markets by IP-based and OTT supply of programming, there remained many reasons to be optimistic (about satellite). “The consumer is jumping into 4K,” he said. “Simulcasting […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that Eurovision – the European Broadcasting Union’s (EBU) distributor of premium sports and news events – is broadcasting the 2014 FIFA World Cup to audiences throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia in Ultra-HD and HD via SES satellites. Eurovision is distributing matches live in Ultra HD to its […]