Spanish broadcast infrastructure company Cellnex Telecom is launching a cloud-based 4K distribution platform as part of project called PLEASE. The project aims to boost the development of UHD content by making a distribution platform available using a cloud-based system to support UHD TV resolution through the MPEG-DASH standard. The platform will also use the H.265/HEVC […]
Advanced Television talks to Mariam Zamaray, CEO of TV Entertainment Reality Network (TERN), about INSIGHT TV, its newly launched all 4k UHD channel. INSIGHT is a factual entertainment channel available via SES satellite to over 60 million homes . As well as providing maximum bit-rate and FPS picture quality, INSIGHT aims to put the viewer at the centre of […]
Last week, Sky CEO Jeremy Darroch stated that Sky in the UK would start Ultra-HD transmissions later in 2016. Documentation issued at his press conferences talks about UHD at 3840 x 2160 pixels. He declined to give a specific start date, but he was enthusiastic in saying that Sky’s introduction of its all-new Sky Q […]
November 22nd saw Eutelsat transmit a major tennis final in Ultra-HD. The event was the Grande Sfida 4 at Palapanini in Modena, promoted by the Italian TV Supertennis channel and broadcast live in UHD via the Eutelsat satellites. For the first time, John McEnroe, Mats Wilander, Sergi Bruguera and Henri Leconte were shot live in […]
As consumers already know buying an Ultra HD TV is an expensive process. But a US research group says that the costs might be significantly more than viewers realise. The problem comes in the form of the household’s electricity bill. The USA’s influential National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), in a detailed report on the impact […]
November 21st will see the first ‘El Clásico’ of the season when Real Madrid play Barcelona. Satellite operator SES will transmit the live game in Ultra HD. The signals will be broadcast from the Astra 1L craft at 19.2 degrees East. The transmission is part of the UHD technical tests being conducted by SES, Movistar+ […]
Telefonica’s pay-TV platform Movistar+ will air this weekend’s El Clásico match between Real Madrid and Barcelona in 4K for some of its fibre pay-TV subscribers. The pilot broadcast, the first time the match has been aired to the ounlic in 4K, will be available to FTTH subscribers owning a Samsung Ultra HD smart TV that […]
A meeting of the DVB Steering Board has approved the Commercial Requirements for the next phase of Ultra High Definition Television, paving the way for the technical work on the specification to progress. The path to UHDTV was set in the ITU in 2012 with a potential list of new features for future television (ITU-R […]
ATEME has announced that that Basmedia, a centralised and decentralised playout service provider, is launching the HEVC Ultra-HD service “Festival 4K”, using TITAN Live. TITAN Live is a virtualised software-based encoder-transcoder, with support for HEVC, H264 and MPEG2. TITAN Live supports resolutions from mobile devices to 4K-UHD. “Basmedia is always searching for innovative partners to […]
The DTG UK UHD Forum and German TV Platform are joining forces to continue testing Ultra HD TVs, receivers, content and connectivity as new services develop. German TV Platform is the German counterpart to the DTG, the UK collaboration centre for innovation in digital media technology, with its own industry group dedicated to Ultra HD […]