Advanced Television

Ultra-HD/4K

Sky Q to be priced this week

Sky will unveil its pricing structure for its new SkyQ Ultra-HD set-top box during its latest quarter’s results announcements on January 29th. Analyst reports suggest the new ‘all in’ pricing model will start above the current £90 per month for Sky’s all-embracing top-level sports & movies bundles. Equity analysts at investment bank Nomura suggested to […]

January 25, 2016By Chris Forrester

46% new TV buyers plan 4K purchase

Consumer advisory service FatWallet’s annual TV Buyer Survey reports 26 per cent of Americans will buy a new TV this year (that number increases significantly to 40 per cent for those with children and 35 per cent for those under age 30). Of those, 25 per cent will buy new TVs during Super Bowl sales […]

January 22, 2016

UHD: HDR/WCG to become mainstream

Supplies of Ultra-HD displays equipped with High Dynamic Range (HDR) and Wider Colour Gamut (WCG) functionality will start shipping into retail stores this spring. A report in Display Daily from highly regarded industry analyst Chris Chinnock says that HDR and WCG displays will rapidly become mainstream. He states: “Nearly every UHD TV in 2016 will […]

January 22, 2016By Chris Forrester

IHS: “We’re upgrading 4K forecasts”

Paul Gray, principal analyst at IHS Technology, admitted to delegates at a major London conference that the specialist research business has had to upgrade its forecasts on European 4K sales. Despite telling delegates to the Hollywood  IT Society and Media & Entertainment Services Alliance, held at the Dolby London HQ, that UHD sales would be […]

January 21, 2016By Chris Forrester

Amino unveils 4K/HEVC range

Hybrid TV device and cloud solutions specialist Amino has confirmed the availability of the new Amino 6 Series, a comprehensive range of 4K Ultra HD and HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) Hybrid TV Devices to spearhead operator rollout of next generation entertainment services. According to industry analysts IHS Electronics and Media, strong growth in demand for […]

January 21, 2016

Vivicast 8th UHD channel on SES

Vivicast Media is now transmitting an all-Ultra HD channel across North America. Named UHD-1 it is being delivered from SES-3, a satellite designed to feed channels and programming into the USA’s cable head-ends. Vivicast Media says it continues to add new UHD content and titles to the rich programming line-up of feature films, television series, […]

January 21, 2016
By Chris Forrester



Harmonic, AsiaSat launch new UHD channel

Harmonic, a specialist in video delivery infrastructure, and AsiaSat, Asia’s premier satellite operator, have announced a partnership to launch a new Ultra HD channel 4K-SAT2/HVN’, AsiaSat’s second free-to-air UHD channel on AsiaSat 4 at 122 degrees East for Asia-Pacific. Launching on the new channel on March 1st will be 4K video content from Harmonic’s broad […]

January 20, 2016

Rogers lines up 4K NHL

Fresh from delivering the first-ever live 4K sports broadcast in North America on January 14th, Canadian communications and media company Rogers is claiming another first – producing and broadcasting the first-ever NHL game in 4K. The game will be a Hockey Night in Canada telecast produced by Sportsnet and available to Rogers customers with NextBox […]

January 19, 2016

4K PVR from Bell

Canadian multimedia company Bell is raising the 4K stakes by confirming that its Fibe TV customers in Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and Québec City can now purchase Bell’s new 4K Whole Home PVR, which it describes as the most advanced 4K PVR available today. The new Fibe TV 4K Whole Home PVR is the smallest available […]

January 19, 2016

ATEME powers Globo Play 4K

Latin America commercial TV network Globo has deployed ATEME’s TITAN stream processing system to power 4K content on its new OTT multi-screen services. The newly-launched Globo Play services are available on Smart TVs, PCs, smartphones and tablets. The first TV shows to benefit from this UHD resolution will be the 2014 mini-series Dupla identidade, followed […]

January 19, 2016