Bill Baggelaar, SVP Post Production Technologies, Sony Pictures, has suggested that his role “and passion” at the studio is to help bring innovation and new equipment as much as possible to productions, whether they be features or television products. “This is for the purpose of allowing us to tell stories more compellingly in creative ways,” […]
Bertrand Loyer talks about being a UHD early adopter – using 4K since 2009 – for Saint Thomas’s wild life and natural disaster shooting. He says UHD and particularly HDR is an evolution in the viewers relationship with the screen with ‘as the eye sees’ pictures for the first time and ability to naturally follow […]
Espial and Tele Columbus have jointly announced a successful initial phase to an ongoing field trial of Tele Columbus’ next-generation, 4K ultra high definition ready video service, known as “Advanced TV,” based on key Espial video solutions and integrated by the Espial Elite systems integration team. Conducted in select households within their footprint, the impact […]
Event organiser Reed MIDEM has revealed that Japan has been named the MIPCOM 2016 Country of Honour. MIPCOM, the world’s entertainment content B2B trade event, takes place in Cannes, France, from 17-20 October 2016, with senior Japanese government officials suggesting the status will allow the country even greater scope to showcase its work in 4K […]
Prashant Chothani, CEO of TravelXP based in Mumbai has shot 4K UHD all over the world for his international travel channel and speaks about how UHD changes the creative approach, the challenge of data wrangling in the field and the work arounds needed as you wait for standards to settle. [bitsontherun pDgOsWsN-ni7dlelE]
Anthony Geffin, seasoned UHD natural history producer, talks about the realities of UHD capture, data handling in the field and successful adaptation. [bitsontherun O46Cq2FZ-ni7dlelE]
David Royle, EVP Programming for the Smithsonian Channel, talks about its commitment to capture everything in UHD and the positive reaction of its distributors and viewers. [bitsontherun c8XaxT6a-ni7dlelE]
Speakers at a MIPTV 4K Ultra HD Conference session on the opportunities for drama and high-end theatrical screenings agreed on the suitability of the genres for the format, but agreed that a range of technical and production challenges needed to be addressed. Andy King, Head of Technology Television at the BBC, noted that standards were […]
Japan’s plans for the introduction of 4K and 8K transmissions were explained in detail at MIPTV’s dedicated UHD sessions in Cannes, April 4th. There are already some 4K test transmissions on air, notably from SkyPerfecTV, but MIPTV delegates heard (from Yoshiharu Kashima, NHK’s senior manager/programming, that its transmissions would start on August 1st 2016, and […]
Daniele Gauna, Senior Sport Production Technology Consultant with Infront in Italy, told delegates at the MIPTV 4K Ultra HD Conference that with the popularity of football in the country it made the sport a natural platform to carry out tests of 4K technology. Its first such test had taken place in the San Siro stadium […]