Thaicom’s CEO Suphajee Suthumpun says her company’s Thaicom-8 satellite will launch 1H/2016 in order to further expand Thailand’s broadcasting industry, and will be placed at the company’s ‘hot spot’ orbital position at 78.5 deg East (along with Thaicom-5 and 6). “The satellite will also allow us to meet the Ultra-HD demands for Thailand and the […]
The RVU Alliance, which develops and promotes the RVU Remote User Interface (RUI) standard, has announced a major feature expansion with the launch of the RVU Certification program for Ultra HDdevices, along with a significant expansion of the RVU membership roster. RVU is a client/server protocol which allows a central server to provide a consistent […]
Technicolor has confirmed the availability of what it claims is the world’s first “high-frame-rate” 4Kp60 (60 frames per second) STB,. Available for both Cable and Satellite networks, Technicolor is gearing up to deliver the most immersive 4K experience. Along with its work on High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Colour Gamut technologies, Technicolor is building on […]
Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, has announced a partnership with AJA Video Systems that will provide 4K enhancements to its K2 Dyno Replay System. Grass Valley is integrating AJA’s Corvid Ultra and TruScale scaling hardware into the K2 Dyno to drive real-time pan and zoom to allow HD extraction from 4K acquisition with DynoZoom. With […]
UK-based technology consultancy Futuresource is forecasting a speedier than anticipated take-up of 4K Ultra-HD TVs. Futuresource say that TV set vendors can expect that 4K sets will account for 5 per cent of global sales of flat-panel displays, and rising to 42 per cent by 2018. “Besides attractive pricing, the industry is hoping that the […]
Next-generation Ultra-HD broadcasting has commenced in Korea. U-max, an Ultra-HD cable TV channel, recently went on the air and started broadcasting four hours of Ultra-HD programming five times per day, including documentaries, cartoons and live concerts. “We started broadcasting in ultra HD for the first time worldwide, after a test run last July,” said Minister […]
Sony anticipates Ultra HD TV sales will increase four-fold in 2014 and also aims to hold a 10 per cent global share in LCD TV shipments. The company has said it aims to ship roughly 20 million LCD TVs and estimates that its overall Ultra HD TV shipments will increase four-fold in 2014, with Ultra […]
Russian pay-TV broadcaster NTV Plus is looking to launch a 4K service later this year, or early in 2015. Oleg Kolesnikov, NTV’s Technical Director, says the recent 4K test transmissions carried by NTV Plus at the Sochi Winter Olympics were a huge success, proving that end-to-end signals could be carried successfully. NTV Plus carried the […]
A documentary shot in Ultra HD/4kTV by Rai Strategie Tecnologiche in collaboration with Eutelsat has been given its first screening to industry experts and media in Rome. Directed by Lina Wertmüller, the documentary – Roma, Napoli, Venezia… in un crescendo rossiniano – exploits the exceptional image quality of 4K to display the artistic and cultural […]
“Ultra-HD broadcasting is the next stage for us on a journey of trying to use the new 4K technology. We started by testing what we could do inside the ground, with the cameras and could we get the cameras to talk to the Outside Broadcast trucks. Gradually we are building on that experience to try […]