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Triax LNBs Can Support SAT>IP

by Bob Raikes

Peter Lyhne Uhrenholt is from Triax and he spoke about LNBs that can directly support SAT>IP. Triax is from Denmark and has been around for more than 65 years. Most of its business is …

The second day started with more technical content on broadcast and then moved into a session on SAT>IP. We have been reporting on the concept (where satellite-supplied content is put straight into a home …

Satellite Can Push UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was Gregory Beaurin of Quadrille in France and he looked at the issues for delivering multimedia content over satellite as satellite TV companies have to be able to add On Demand …

HDPlus Wants to Move to Support UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Georges Agnes runs the SES HD Plus initiative in Germany and he talked about the plans for UltraHD and multiscreen. HDPlus has a platform that costs €5 per month to get 20 pay channels …

HbbTV Changing to Match Multiscreen

by Bob Raikes

The final session of the first day covered service and platform initiatives and the first speaker was Laurent Etienne, the CTT of HTTV, a French middleware company. He has been involved in the standards …

Samsung Likes BBC Proposal for Broadcast HDR

by Bob Raikes

John Adam of Samsung was the next speaker and he gave the “set makers’” point of view. He said that consumers are buying UHD sets and that is also driving the growth of sets …

EBU Updates on Standards for UltraHD

by Bob Raikes

Yvonne Thomas is from the EBU and she looked at standards for UltraHD. She said that the aim with UltraHD, as Mark Twain said is to “please some and astonish the rest”. The main …

Exciting Times for UltraHD – and UK Politics!

by Bob Raikes

It has been an interesting week. I spent a couple of days in Luxembourg at the SES Partner day. There was, of course, lots of talk about UltraHD and HDR and I got my …

UltraHD Topic is Hot

by Bob Raikes

The next speaker was our own Bob Raikes, who outlined that the panel and TV set industry is already geared up for UltraHD and quoted the recent comment from DisplaySearch’s Paul Gray that by …

New Developments in Modulation and Demod Allow Higher Bandwidths

by Bob Raikes

Peter Nayler is from STMicroelectronics There will be more than 3 billion connected people by the end of this year around the world. In rural areas other, wired technolgies, are not able to deliver …

SES Sees Continued Growth

by Bob Raikes

Daniel Biedermann is SVP of corporate development at SES and he started by saying that there are a lot of national satellite initiatives for making satellites, partly attracted by Chinese money and interest, so …

SES Looks To the Sea, the Land and Into Space

by Bob Raikes

The first speaker was Karim Michel Sabbagh of SES, the relatively new President and CEO of SES who said that the aim of satellite is to be on the sea, on the land and …