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We enjoyed this event which was very interesting. Thomas Wrede of SES was a congenial and energetic host. UltraHD and HDR in particular are hot topics and there was some useful information. The SAT>IP initiative is also an interesting one – it would be fascinating to understand why it is not really implemented by an … Read more
The final speaker was Hyung Lim from DMT in Korea, although the firm also has offices in the US. DMT has developed a new box, 4SeTV which allows the merging and playback of four different streams of video so that users can, for example, watch four different sports programmes at the same time on a … Read more
Hyperpanel is a software company from France and is working on SAT>IP and Laurent Jabiol introduced the company. The firm was founded in 1986 and was the creator of MediaHighway. It was the first company to develop MHEG, HbbTV, Cas-2-DRM and SAT>IP software. It has 35 million DTV licences worldwide. Hyperpanel has a new operating … Read more
Patrick Molin is from MStar in Taiwan. The company was only formed in 2002 by some engineers from TSMC and started with simple chips, but quickly got into TV SoCs and was one of the survivors that eventually took the market. It was the first company to develop a global DVB chip, which was a … Read more
The final speaker in the SAT>IP session was Seung Joon IM from “I DO IT” and he talked about a new flat antenna for SAT>IP. Joon set up the company after leaving LG and it is based in Korea. There are many parabolic antennas in the market, but flat antennas have been widely used in … Read more
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 done in Europe, although there are sales in Asia and North America. Triax believes there are 142 million DTH households in … Read more
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 network – even as early as the LNB). Tom Christophory is from SES and is the “technical guru” behind SAT>IP and … Read more
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 and OTT services. In real life, broadband-free regions still exist, but even in areas with broadband, network saturation occurs. How can … Read more
The first ingredient in the Physical Layer transmission standard for next-generation TV broadcasts is now an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) “Candidate Standard,” marking an important milestone in the process to develop the ATSC 3.0 standard, the Advanced Television Systems Committee announced today. The ATSC’s Technology Group developing ATSC 3.0 has voted to approve the … Read more
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 and 30 FTA channels. The service has grown from 2 to 20 pay channels, and has gone from 37,000 subscribers after … Read more
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 process for the development of the different versions of HbbTV. (For those readers who don’t know HbbTV – it’s a specification … Read more
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 in 55″ and above. He also said that there have been a lot of UltraHD trials and people really could see … Read more
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