Alticast to announced that its ongoing innovation partnership with Videotron is helping to achieve a milestone for the Canadian pay-TV industry – the first availability of 4K set-top box on a commercial basis throughout a cable system operator’s entire service footprint. Leveraging Alticast’s expertise in middleware and UI enablement, the illico 4K Ultra HD PVR […]
Owners of the latest Sony 4K TV sets and living in Florida, New York and parts of California, could view a test screening of an international football match that took place more than a month ago. The match, between Mexico and Senegal, was played at Miami’s Marlins Park on February 10th, and captured with more […]
Various Eurovision units have followed up a successful 4K test from Kitzbühel, Austria a few weeks ago by setting up a similar showcase at the recent 2016 IBU Biathlon World Championships in Oslo –Holmenkollen. 4K cameras were placed at the venue in order to produce Ultra High Definition resolution content (clips) featuring sharp and crisp […]
French pay-TV operator Canal+ Group, a leading provider of premium channels, is partnering with quad-play operator Orange to launch its latest set-top box with a complete Ultra-HD offering including: Live events: Top rugby and football matches with a new UHD experience Original productions in UHD A selection of UHD movies, series and documentaries Content will […]
Sky will launch UHD TV on Sky Q by summer says Nick Herm, director of strategy, Sky. The pay broadcaster will also be adding voice control, he said. Herm said Sky is looking to offer a range of different products to cater for an ever more fragmented audience with widely varying viewing habits. He told […]
Media commentator Andrew Neil has predicted that Sky’s new premium-level pay-TV offering Sky Q will be the development that kick starts the market for Ultra HD TV. Delivering a ‘State of the Industry’ keynote address at the SES Satellite Monitor event in London, Neil, the launch Chairman of the original Sky DTH service in the […]
The March 12th Italian Serie-A football match between Inter Milan and Bologna at the San Siro Stadium was captured in Ultra-HD and High Dynamic Range (HDR). The coverage was provided by Italian outside broadcast specialist DBW Communications on behalf of TV rights-holders InFront Sports & Media. Ultra-HD and HDR is being described as the ‘next […]
SES is now in 317 million homes worldwide. Presenting its numbers in at the Satellite Monitor event in London, the satellite operator said HD content has tripled in Europe over the past five years, with SES serving 78 per cent of HD homes. The company expects to see more than the 30 Ultra-HD channels predicted […]
Famed movie director Ang Lee (Life of Pi, Hulk) says he is filming his next project in Ultra HD, 3D and High Dynamic Range (HDR) as well as using an ultra-smooth 120 frames/second format. The project, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, will be previewed at NAB next month in an April 16 Keynote during SMPTE’s […]
Panellists at the Satellite 2016 trade event in Washington last week confirmed their faith in 4K/Ultra HD, but some of them also admitted that 8K transmission could be closer than most people think. Richard Bullock (strategic project manager at Ericsson) told delegates that enquiries from broadcasters had quietened down over the past year since the […]