Ed Kellie of Escapade Productions tells us he plans to use UHD and VR to make Steve Backshall’s 1 mile vertical climb for Comic Relief a truly immersive – and terrifying – experience. [bitsontherun 2KkdtXEJ-hLYU43gg]
Bertrand Loyer of St Thomas Productions shares his experience of shooting in 4K UHD since 2009 and how HDR brings a whole new dimension to what can be achieved. [bitsontherun SHpy5CyN-hLYU43gg]
Prashant Chothani updates us on another year shooting and broadcasting in UHD and explains how you do find work-arounds to all that data heavy lifting. [bitsontherun 3YDjIYZH-hLYU43gg]
Martin Dohrn DoP Terramater Factual Studies says shooting in 4K UHD HDR changes the way you look at the light and how you can use it. [bitsontherun U9zRxDBL-hLYU43gg]
Vanessa Case and Andrew Jackson of Blue Ant and Plimsoll, relate their experience of capturing hundreds of hours of 4k UHD natural history in their grand, two-year, Camp Zambia production. [bitsontherun YgAuCLhl-hLYU43gg]
BBC Worldwide – the main commercial arm of the Corporation – has agreed a co-production deal with one of China’s largest providers of Internet value added services, Tencent for Planet Earth II, marking the first time BBC Worldwide is co-producing a documentary with a video platform in China. Narrated by David Attenborough and produced by […]
Satellite operator SES has agreed a capacity deal to launch the new C4K360 Ultra HD channel across North America aboard its SES-1 satellite. C4K360 joins SES’s 4K Ultra HD distribution neighbourhood hosted on three satellites (SES-1, SES-3 and AMC-18) at the centre of the orbital arc over North America. Tailored to young audiences, C4K360 offers […]
Satellite operator Eutelsat Communications and global broadcast service provider Telespazio, a Leonardo-Finmeccanica (67 per cent) and Thales (33 per cent) joint venture, are strengthening their longstanding strategic partnership with a new agreement that sets the stage for growth of higher resolution video channels at Eutelsat’s Hotbird video neighbourhood. In addition to pursuing transmissions of Standard […]
The reticence of pay-TV platforms to commit to carrying nascent 4K UHD services is leading to programming pioneers to turn to OTT delivery as they wait for operators to refine their business models, according to panellists in the ‘Here Come the UHD Channels’ session in the Sony 4K Ultra HD theatre at MIPCOM. Rian Bester, […]
Nela Pavlouskova of the Museum Channel says innovation is its DNA as it now provides a 4K UHD linear service having pioneered in both HD and 3D. [bitsontherun 6qvy7Ya7-hLYU43gg]