Exclusive Ultra HD content broadcast in the Hot Bird 4K1 channel operated by Eutelsat Communications continues to expand and diversify with new input from SPI International and Anixe HD Television. SPI International, operator of more than 30 TV channels on four continents, and German broadcaster Anixe are both displaying original new content at the Anga […]
France Télévisions, which is currently trialling UHD transmissions at the Roland Garros Tennis Open, has confirmed that the test channel will now air for the entire duration of June. Following the retransmission of the tennis tournament on both Fransat’s dish TV offering and Paris DTT network, in partnership with TDF and Eutelsat, the France Télévisions […]
Elemental Technologies is a leader in Software Defined Video and it has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner. At TV Connect in London, Advanced Television talked to John Nemeth VP EMEA. [bitsontherun 5UwyCT52-ni7dlelE]
NanoTech Entertainment, an expert in bringing the 4K Ultra HD experience to consumers has released a version of its UltraFlix 4K Ultra HD network on the MAC OS X operating system with support for the 5K iMac. Aaron Taylor, NanoTech VP of Sales and Marketing noted “The 27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display is the […]
France’s Canal+ has confirmed that it is to screen the forthcoming UEFA Champions League Final on Saturday June 6th between Barcelona and Juventus in Ultra High Definition. The broadcast will be via Astra craft situated at 19.2°E in partnership with SES and also OTT. The initiative is in line with the group’s year-old policy of […]
While just about everyone agrees that 4K/UHD is the ‘next big thing’ for broadcasters wishing to capitalise on viewers’ lust for everything that’s bigger and brighter, the fact remains that standard definition transmissions still dominates in most parts of the world. A detailed report from Northern Sky Research (NSR) explains the position. Looking at the […]
Andy Quested, Head of HD and UHD at the BBC, has suggested that any entry by the broadcaster into providing UHD/4K content needn’t necessarily be in the form of a ‘traditional’ channel service. Speaking at the Futuresource Consulting New Content Horizons conference in London, Quested – who stressed that the Corporation didn’t have a UHD […]
illuminate has completed a digital restoration of the iconic TV series, The X-Files. Retransferred from the camera-original negative, the show’s entire 201 episodes have been reassembled in HD using illuminate’s proprietary iConform technology. All nine seasons of The X-Files have now been released on Netflix. iConform, illuminate’s proprietary software, was used to automatically edit together […]
ATEME has been selected to provide the primary live video encoding platform in 4K HEVC (H265) during the French Tennis Open. The images are being broadcast during the two week tournament on the Fransat platform, which provides the distribution of the French free to air broadcasting service (TNT) by satellite (EUT5°W), and can be viewed […]
June 1st marked 80 years since the start of Japan’s NHK public service international transmissions. The international service, which began with radio broadcasts in 1935, today conveys the latest stories from Japan and Asia to the world via television, radio, and the Internet. NHK used the occasion to broadcast a variety of domestic and international […]