Sky has confirmed the launch of what it describes as the UK’s most comprehensive Ultra HD service on Sky Q Silver, available to customers from August 13th. Offering a line up of Premier League football, exclusive blockbuster movies, natural history documentaries and gripping dramas, it says viewers will be brought to the heart of the […]
Prashant Chothani, CEO of Mumbai-based travel and lifestyle channel TravelXP says it will launch a UHD version this coming October. Chothani, a regular at MIPtv and MIPCOM, has already shot around 100 hours of UHD programming and is looking to add another 50 or so hours with the emphasis on High Dynamic Range material. He […]
OTT technology product and service provider NeuLion has participated the first time ever, in collaboration with premium global sports brand UFC and through the production support of DirecTV, the option of watching a live stream of UFC 200: Cormier vs. Jones 2 in 4K. The headline fight was called off following the news that Jones […]
SMPTE’s latest newsletter has a major report on High Dynamic Range technology as part of the shift towards 4K/Ultra HD. Although written prior to the July 5 news that the ITU had issued its fresh REC 2100, writer Michael Goldman, in a piece headlined, “Acquisition HDR” praises the industry’s efforts to acquire 4K “as broadcasters […]
The ITU has announced – and confirmed – the REC-2100 enhanced standard, and which builds on the ‘REC-2020’ standard for high-dynamic range (HDR) broadcasting. “[HDR] represents a major advance in television broadcasting. HDR brings an incredible feeling of realism, building further on the superior colour fidelity of ITU’s Ultra-High Definition Television Recommendation BT.2020. ITU’s Radiocommunication […]
The June 30th quarter-final of the Euro 2016 football tournament between Portugal and Poland marked the kick-off of seven consecutive matches that Rai, Italy’s national public broadcaster, and Eutelsat are offering Italian TV homes in Ultra HD. The pair say the initiative marks Rai’s most ambitious foray into Ultra HD, which represents the next big […]
Brazilian pay-TV operators NET and Claro TV have confirmed that the Opening Ceremony of the forthcoming Rio Olympic Games will be made available in 4K Ultra HD. In partnership with the SporTV channel, the experimental transmission will be made available to subscribers with compatible set-top boxes. The broadcast marks the second time that NET and […]
A TV station in Raleigh-Durham is being used to test the next-generation Ultra-HD concept, complete with High Dynamic Range and Wider Color Gamut technologies, all as specified in the USA’s ATSC 3.0 plan. WRAL-TV, owned by Capital Broadcasting and an affiliate station of NBC, is using Harmonic’s broadcast encoders powered by Harmonic’s PURE Compression Engine. […]
Swisscom TV2.0, the leader of the Swiss digital TV market with over 1.4 million subscribers, has deployed the Cisco Ultra High Definition (UHD) Live Encoding solution for its UHD viewing experience for the European Football Championship 2016. With Cisco’s live encoding solutions in place, Swisscom can offer its subscribers immersive, 4K content, including live sports, available for 24-hour programming. Swisscom […]
HEVC Advance, an independent licensing administrator, hasy announced that Warner Bros has become both a Licensor and Licensee of the HEVC Advance HEVC/H.265 Patent Pool. As a Licensor, Warner Bros will make its essential patents available through the HEVC Advance patent pool, which provides a transparent and efficient licensing programme for HEVC/H.265 essential patents. As […]