May 17 2017
This year’s festival season kicks off with a bang, with Sky Arts broadcasting a major music festival live and in Ultra HD for the very first time with Sky Q. The channel will be the exclusive home to the 2017 Isle of Wight festival, with live TV coverage from headline acts including David Guetta, Rod […]
May 16 2017
The UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League finals will be available for absolutely anyone to watch on TV and online, with the former also set to be shown in 360° virtual reality, 4K UHD on YouTube and 4K UHD with Dolby Atmos in a series of broadcast firsts for the biggest game in world […]
May 16 2017
LUXEMBOURG, 16 May, 2017 — SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) and LG Electronics (LG) will demonstrate OLED TV’s cutting-edge 4K High Frame Rate (HFR) broadcast at the tenth SES Industry Days conference in Luxembourg on 16 and 17 May. The 4K HFR content will be transmitted live via an ASTRA satellite at […]
Apr 10 2017
Cairo-based satellite operator Nilesat is to invest $300 million in a new satellite (and its launch costs), Nilesat 301. Further details on its build and launch plans are not yet available. The report comes fresh after news that Nilesat is to ‘partner’ with New Delhi-based Tata Communications in a new service for delivering regional media […]
Apr 5 2017
Marco Pellegrinato, Director R&D & Innovation at Italy’s RTI – Mediaset Group, has suggested that the country could adopt an interim HD HDR phase between 2018 and 2022 over digital terrestrial television prior to moving to Ultra HD HDR. Speaking during a panel session on ‘Italy is Busy with Ultra HD’ in the Sony 4K […]
Apr 4 2017
Samsung Electronics and Rakuten Wuaki, a leading provider of 4K high dynamic range (HDR) movies and video-on-demand (VOD) content, announced the expanded availability of Samsung’s TV PLUS service at MIPTV (Marché International des Programmes de Télévision) in Cannes. With this announcement, Rakuten Wuaki, partnered with Samsung, becomes the first VOD service to sell newly released, […]
Apr 4 2017
Fashion TV has launched a dedicated Ultra High Definition channel, FTV UHD, on Eutelsat’s HOTBIRD at 13° East. Fashion TV is leveraging HOTBIRD’s position to offer exclusive Ultra HD content to cable and IPTV networks across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. FTV UHD uses HEVC encoding with 10 bits of colour depth (one […]
Mar 14 2017
UK commercial broadcaster ITV will produce a daily highlights package of horse-racing action from this week’s Cheltenham Festival in Ultra HD and 360° video. The content will be posted at 7pm each day on ITV’s Facebook and YouTube pages during the festival (March 14th – March 17th). Production company VR City will capture the footage […]
Mar 2 2017
The UHD Alliance, that vast consortium of content producers, electronics manufacturers and TV makers, is making sure that 4K HDR video can have some high quality standards for the next generations of ultra HD smartphones, laptops, PCs and tablets. The organization is doing this through a new spec that’s basically a mobile device version of […]
Feb 1 2017
LUXEMBOURG, 1 February 2017 – SES S.A. (NYSE Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) continues to lead High Definition TV (HDTV) development representing the largest HD and Ultra HD (UHD) platform. In 2016, the number of HD channels on the SES fleet grew by 7% to 2,495 channels. Today, 33% of all the 7,538 […]
Jan 10 2017
The new generation of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Ultra High Definition (Ultra HD) televisions, boasting more than 8 million pixels and rich lifelike colours, deep blacks and bright whites, will bring a whole new viewing experience into the home. The 4K HDR Ultra HD Logo provides assurance to consumers, as well as content producers, broadcasters […]
New Broadcast 2040+ research
BBC to switch off all SD satellite channels
ITV2/3/4 HD FTA
Successful launch of EUTELSAT HOTBIRD 13F satellite
PBS America has launched on Freeview PlayITV will rebrand main channel as ITV1
Channel 4 HD coming to 104
ITV Hub will soon no longer be available on some Freesat devices
Freeview channel changes & closures“Protect traditional TV & radio” say the British people as Broadcast 2040+ campaign launches
May 24 2017
HDR will overtake 4K by 2020
High dynamic range (HDR) features will be on some HD television sets and help boost 4K’s momentum. ABI Research forecasts that HDR TV shipments will grow at a 41 per cent CAGR and reach 245 million units in 2022. 8K TV sets are still years away from permeating the global market, with market hype currently […]
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By Expat • 4K UHD, High Dynamic Range (HDR) • Tags: Dynamic Tone Mapping, HDR, Ultra HD HDR