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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Canadian communications and media company Rogers, the US National Basketball Association and UK broadcaster BT Sport are set to deliver the first live NBA game in 4K. Rogers’ Sportsnet brings Canadians the Toronto Raptors vs. the Orlando Magic on January 14th, live from The O2 Arena in London. Rogers’ cable customers can tune their NextBox […]
Satellite operator SES says its channel growth has exploded over the past year, rising by 11.3 per cent. It is now carrying 7,268 channels and says its strongest growth “is in emerging markets”. Growth is also occurring in HDTV broadcasting, and SES says that its Ultra-HD confirmed channel count now amounts to seven channels with […]