4K TV is on its way, and many of the current problems are rapidly being solved, says Pete Putman, president of Roam Consulting and a frequent participant in SMPTE organised events. In a SMPTE ‘hot button’ paper, released to coincide with the opening of NAB, he says that 4K television now represents a “meaningful substance […]
Envivio has announced a new multiprocessor software approach for real-time 4K Ultra HD HEVC (H.265) compression using Envivio Muse encoding software. By distributing HEVC encoding across multiple server nodes, this architecture is designed to provide the power to perform high quality Ultra HD compression on industry-standard servers—enabling seamless migration to HEVC and cost-effective, scalable deployment […]
Intelsat, a provider of satellite services, along with partners BT Group, Ericsson, Sony and Newtec, will demonstrate the next iteration of a true 4K Ultra High Definition Television, end-to-end video transmission over satellite to the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada during the 2014 NAB Show. The demos will take place at Intelsat’s […]
Later this month, on April 27th, Pope Francis will canonise two previous pontiffs as saints in a lavish ceremony in St Peter’s Square, Rome. The event will be broadcast live in 3D by Sky Italia and carried on the 3D channels of BSkyB and Sky Deutschland, and also beamed around the world to cinemas in […]
Parks Associates has revealed new research predicting 4K TVs will follow a similar, but faster, growth pattern as HDTVs, which have reached 82 per cent of US broadband households after 15 years on the market. The research “4K Today: Bringing Ultra HD to Market” predicts 4K TVs will reach mass-market pricing in the next 2-3 […]
The December 23rd – February 2nd New Year/Chinese New Year period saw record sales of LCD TVs in China with 8.26 million units sold, an increase of 3.6 per cent over last year. According to IHS Technology, the sales have
Olympic sponsor Panasonic will use the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as a guinea pig for its new 8K high definition broadcast. Panasonic Senior Vice President Shiro Nishiguchi said, “Japanese broadcaster NHK is really committed to introducing 8K; we are working very closely with them.” Adding that, “The difficulty rather than shooting in 8K is distributing, especially […]
Last week Qatar Satellite issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a fast-track build for a second satellite, Es’HailSat-2. Es’HailSat-1 is already in position, and is a joint venture satellite with Eutelsat operating from 26 degrees East. Qatar’s plan is to have the new satellite in position by the end of 2016. Ali Ahmed al-Kuwari, […]
Visitors to next month’s NAB show in Las Vegas will be the first to see Orad’s new ‘Blend 4K’ unit which they describe as the world’s “first ever 4K channel in a box”. Orad says its new Blend unit offers a 4K clip server in XAVC and XAVC-S formats. The ultra HD XAVC uses level […]
BBC presenter and economics journalist Andrew Neil told delegates to the SES ‘Satellite Monitor’ event in London that Ultra HD “was the next big thing”. Neil was the founding chairman of Sky TV (in 1988) and was instrumental in the merger between Sky and British Satellite Broadcasting in 1990. An economist by training, he is […]