IHS Markit’s Paul Gray, principal analyst for consumer devices, says that Q4 shipments last year for larger-sized 4K/UHD displays have shown “incredible acceleration” over previous quarter-year periods in 2016, and significantly ahead of 2015 shipments. IHS says that
BT Sport will remain the exclusive UK home of all UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League football. Following a competitive auction process, BT has secured the rights until the end of the 2020/21 season that for the first time brings together exclusivity across all live games, highlights and in-match clips of both competitions. BT will […]
Following the approval by the DVB Steering Board for TS 101 154 V2.3.1 – ‘Specification for the use of Video and Audio Coding in Broadcasting Applications based on the MPEG-2 Transport Stream’, ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has officially published the DVB specification as an ETSI standard. The timely move by ETSI facilitates the necessary […]
US TV set manufacturer VIZIO has unveiled its all-new 2017 VIZIO SmartCast E-Series collection. Highlighted by 4K High Dynamic Range models for the 55” class screen sizes and above, the collection also includes Full HD and Ultra HD models, ranging from 32” – 80” class sizes. All E-Series models feature Chromecast built-in, the easiest way […]
SES has announced that six more US cable operators have joined its Ultra HD trials, while some of the first cable providers to participate are nearing the historic launch of consumer Ultra HD packages across the country. A new wave of Ultra HD trial agreements has been signed with cable operators from coast to coast, […]
Satellite operator SES has confirmed that US multichannel video programming distributor (MVPD) Frontier Communications has begun testing 4K Ultra HD content delivery using SES’s fully-managed Ultra HD distribution platform. Frontier is the latest MVPD to join SES’s milestone trials aimed at accelerating Ultra HD delivery to homes across North America. SES has a growing number […]
Dolby Laboratories and LG Electronics have announced that the LG G6 smartphone will be the first mobile phone to support Dolby Vision high dynamic range (HDR) technology. Additionally, Netflix, and Amazon will be the first streaming services to deliver content in Dolby Vision to mobile devices around the world. “We are revolutionizing mobile entertainment for […]
SES turned in a solid set of results for its Q4 and full year, and in an extremely positive move saw its all-important backlog of contract expand from €7.4 billion in 2015 to €8.1 billion last year. Reported revenue of €2.068 billion (up 2.7 per cent) and contributing to a net profit of €962.7 million. Its […]
Vodafone Spain is launching a new 4K TV service with five TV channels (10 by year end ) and VoD content for subscribers with convergent packages, like Vodafone One. The five new channels are Odisea 4K, Festival 4K, FunBox UHD, Insight TV and Slow Channel – and one 4K transmission of the best football match […]
LG Electronics has announced the launch of its 2017 Super UHD TV lineup featuring Nano Cell display at its R&D Center in Seoul. Alongside the thin LG Signature OLED TV W first unveiled at CES in January 2017, LG has high hopes that its dual premium strategy for TVs will expand its market share in […]