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HPA Tech Retreat Extra to Focus on VR, AR and MR

by Alan Spencer

Registration has opened for the 2017 HPA Tech Retreat UK, the event being run in association with the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. The event attracts a wide audience that gathers together …

Tags:Back Panel| Broadcast| Events| Large Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 15

Harmonic Powers Globosat’s Groundbreaking IP Broadcast Workflow

by Isaac Oburu

Harmonic, the worldwide leader in video delivery infrastructure, today announced that Globosat, Latin America’s largest content and program creator, is using Harmonic’s Spectrum™ X advanced media server system and Harmonic MediaGrid shared storage system …

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Bosnia Ministry Issues New DTT Tender

by Alan Spencer

The communications and transport ministry in Bosnia, has released an international tender for the supply of digital microwave links for the second phase of public broadcasting digitisation for the country. Suppliers have 40 days …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Terrestrial (DTT)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

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BBC Calls for Priority Listing

by Alan Spencer

In the UK, a senior BBC executive has said he wants BBC shows to be given priority listing in EPGs., especially over Sky and Netflix programmes. James Purnell, director of radio and education at …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| OTT Video| STBs| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 11

Hulu to Launch Six Extra Channels this Spring

by Alan Spencer

Hulu is adding to the channels it will offer on its upcoming live TV streaming service by adding six original brands from A+E Networks to the platform, to be launched in spring this year. …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 10

Hisense to Establish American Internet-TV Operation Centre

by Bob Raikes

Hisense said that it has nearly 25 million users of its Internet TV services (21.11 million in China) and plans to build an operation centre in the US to help boost coverage from 2.6 …

Tags:Broadcast| China| Hisense| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Netflix| OTT Video| TVs (TV Sets)| USA| Vol 24 - Issue 09

Complex TV Production to be Democratised?

by Bob Raikes

A company called Cinamaker has said that it would show a multi-camera video streaming technology that is claimed to allow the easy creation and broadcasting of multi-camera TV shows at SXSW. A tablet can …

Tags:Broadcast| Content Creation| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 24 - Issue 09

NBC Sports Using IP Routing

by Chris Chinnock

Sports Video Group (SVG) hosted a seminar on “Going Live with IP Workflows” at the NBC Sports Studios in Stamford, Connecticut. The idea was discuss how IP is being used today in live sports …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| SMPTE| TV Production| Video over IP (VIP)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

DVB UHD Phase 2 Now an ETSI Standard

by Bob Raikes

The DVB, which coordinates the technical side of broadcasting in Europe and, increasingly globally, has announced that ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) has published the DVB Video & Audio Coding Specification as an ETSI …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB| Large Display Monitor| Standards| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Elemental Reveals UltraHD Pitfalls

by Isaac Oburu

Elemental has released a white paper on optimising quality for UltraHD quality that is available to download freely. The company said that ensuring quality needs new measurement and processing technology and also points out …

Tags:4k| Broadcast| Codecs| Elemental Technologies| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 24 - Issue 08