Netherland’s-based 4K newcomer Insight will launch its all-UHD service in the next few days on Russia’s Tricolor DTH platform. The channel is already broadcasting from SES Astra’s 19.2 degree orbital slot, and will shortly start transmissions over India. Insight is firmly set on an expansion curve and while CEO Mariam Zamaray says she wants the […]
Movie industry professional membership association SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) used its Annual Technical Conference (SMPTE 2015) to publish its High Dynamic Range report which encompasses the work of some 170 top experts in the field. “HDR is a rapidly emerging and much-debated technology with the capacity to make a greater impact […]
Last week, India’s Star Gold broadcast a Hindi movie, Bajrangi Bhaijaan, in Ultra-HD. The telecast was carried by the 4K channels on offer from DTH platforms Videocon d2h, TataSky and Airtel Digital TV. Star India’s EVP and GM of its Hindi movie services, Hemal Jhaveri, says the broadcaster will now air every new Hindi movie […]
PT. Graha Pratama Sejahtera (GPS), a leading system integrator based in Indonesia, has launched a bouquet of 14 television channels on AsiaSat 4 at 122ºE. The services, uplinked by GPS’s facilities in Jakarta, are distributed via AsiaSat 4 in C-band to satellite TV operators in Indonesia. With these new services, AsiaSat 4 has significantly expanded […]
Further details of the first Ultra High Definition (4K) broadcast in Turkey available to the end consumer have been revealed by partners involved in the exercise – TRT 4K – Mediapro Turkey-Turksat and Samsung. Seven Ultra HD cameras were used during the production of UEFA Europa League A Group Fenerbahçe- Ajax match on October 22. […]
AsiaSat has confirmed the launch of its first Ultra-HD television channel – 4K-SAT – at 122°E on AsiaSat 4, marking a new era for AsiaSat’s satellite broadcasting services in the region. This new UHD channel will be available free-to-air across more than 50 countries and regions within AsiaSat 4’s enormous footprint, spanning from New Zealand […]
Paris-based satellite operator Eutelsat used the Munich ‘Mediadays’ annual event to announce an Ultra-HD cooperation with German public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) which is part of the ARD consortium of public broadcasters in Germany. The third ‘partner’ in the project is the Munich Technical University (IRT). The partners presented a six-minute TV film on the […]
High dynamic range (HDR) TV sets, offering enhanced brightness for a broader palette of light outputs and sparkling highlights, will soon be commonplace in the global ultra-high-definition (UHD) TV market. According to critical information and insight source IHS, unit shipments of HDR TVs are expected to grow dramatically from 2.9 million in 2016 to 32.6 […]
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation TRT4K Channel is to broadcast a football match in 4K for the first time, breaking new ground in TV broadcast and Turkish football history. The 4K live production of the Fenerbahçe versus Ajax UEFA Europa League match to be played in Fenerbahçe Şükrü Saracoğlu Stadium on 22 October 2015 Thursday, […]
Premium movie player and server specialist Kaleidescape has launched a new product line – Encore – the centrepiece of which is the Kaleidescape Strato Movie Player, which the company says is the world’s first 4K Ultra HD high-dynamic-range movie player for the home. The Encore line also includes the Kaleidescape Alto Movie Player, a new […]