Satellite operator SES saw its new president/CEO, Karim Michel Sabbagh make a keynote speech, one of his first opportunities to outline his vision for the company, and the broadcasting industry. Sabbagh was speaking at IDATE’s Digiworld event in Brussels on May 13th. Sabbagh explained that while satellite delivery of ‘one-to-many’ transmissions was a logical, and […]

Technicolor has confirmed an agreement with Tata Sky, India’s leading DTH service provider, to provide 4K set top boxes in volume early 2015. This agreement is the result of a long, strategic relationship with Tata Sky dating back to 2005, and a Technicolor 4K roadmap of solid technical innovation including 4K trials that have gone […]

Concurrent, a specilaist in multi-screen video delivery and media data intelligence solutions, has released a new version of its multi-screen origin server software which features support for Ultra-HD video content and the HEVC video compression standard (H.265). The company’s latest software enables service providers to stream the highest quality video content to a growing population […]

Ultra-HD TV household ownership will grow from less than 10 per cent of homes in the US for the next four years to 33 per cent of homes by 2020 according to a Strategy Analytics Connected Home Devices (CHD) service report. David Watkins, Service Director, Connected Home Devices commented: “Demand for Ultra-HD TVs is exceeding […]

Netflix is now streaming content in 4K with the second season of its original drama House of Cards. In a blog post, Netflix said that although its catalogue of Ultra-HD content is currently small, it expects to add more 4K content and increase the number of devices it can be accessed on later this year. […]

Sky Deutschland last week carried a test transmission of a Bundesliga football match in Ultra-HD. The match, between Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, was carried on an Astra satellite on April 26th, and carried at 50 fps and using the new High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) compression algorithm. Six 4K cameras were used and another […]

Elemental Technologies, a supplier of software-defined video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, has announced that the Vienna State Opera, one of the world’s most famous performance institutions, will use Elemental video processing solutions to stream the world’s first live production in 4K high-efficiency video coding (HEVC) delivered via MPEG-DASH over the Internet. Set for 7 […]

NanoTech Entertainment has announced that 4K Studios, a NanoTech subsidiary, has entered into a global distribution agreement with Footprint Media, an international Entertainment Company and the owner of High 4K.  Under the agreement, UltraFlix, NanoTech’s all 4K Ultra HD IPTV and OTT streaming video service, will immediately add 70 new 15-minutes General Entertainment episodes to […]

Industry trade bodies the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) and DEG: The Digital Entertainment Group have joined forces to release an educational video created to help US consumer electronics retailers explain the benefits of Ultra High-Definition Television (Ultra HDTV) to consumers and ultimately drive sales of the emerging technology. The one-minute video is