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Ericsson chosen by KT SkyLife for UHDTV expansion

by Tom Allen

South Korean satellite pay-TV provider KT SkyLife has chosen to use Ericsson technology in its UltraHD service. Ericsson’s HEVC encoders will be used in KT SkyLife’s fifth UltraHD channel.

All 4 Original Content

by Tom Allen

4oD was Channel 4’s catch-up service until last March, when it was rebranded to ‘All 4’. Keith Underwood, director of strategy and technology at the broadcaster, discussed the decision, and what it meant. Channel …

Fragmentation and Standardisation Challenge Media Industry

by Tom Allen

The first panel of the day was titled ‘Threats to the UK media and tech industry’. It was chaired by MD of Decipher Nigel Walley. Panelists were Channel 4 CTO Orpheus Warr; media consultant …

Turkcell Uses Ericsson in LTE Broadcast Trial

by Tom Allen

Ericsson and Turkcell have worked together to deliver a live streaming mobile experience, using LTE Broadcast, in Turkey. The demonstration took place at a basketball game, and was part of Turkcell’s deployment of Ericsson’s …

Imagine Eases Cost of Video Delivery

by Tom Allen

Today’s HTTP-based (OTT) networks run in parallel with traditional video transport networks, which can become costly and difficult to maintain. At the INTX show in Boston, Imagine Communications showed a new unified distribution technology …

Tags:Broadcast| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 23 - Issue 19

LTE Supporters Form Alliance for LTE-B

by Bob Raikes

At the TV Connect conference in London recently, Hans Agardh of Qualcomm was attending to talk about the new LTE Broadcast Alliance. We caught up with him in a phone conference. LTE Broadcast (LTE-B) …

Tags:3G & 4G| Broadcast| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 19

BBC White Paper Meets Mixed Reactions

by Tom Allen

The UK government has been debating the future of the BBC for several months (talks that we have reported on have revolved around the whether the licence fee is still relevant, and the iPlayer), …

Ateme Drives Live UHD in Spain

by Tom Allen

Ateme’s Titan compression system was used by Spanish public broadcaster RTVE to broadcaster the ‘Parsifal’ opera from Teatro Real last month, in UltraHD. The broadcast used both satellite and terrestrial networks. The signal was …

RTP Promises Euro 2016 in 4k

by Tom Allen

Portuguese broadcaster RTP has announced that it will launch an UltraHD channel this year, in preparation for the Euro 2016 football tournament. Eight matches will be shown live, including the opening and closing games …

Freenet TV Launches Initial T2 Offering

by Tom Allen

Freenet, which took over Germany’s Media Broadcast in March, will launch several channels on the DVB-T2 platform this month. Initially RTL, ProSieben, Sat.1 and VOX will be broadcast as a package (at 1920 x …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB-T & T2| Germany| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 17

Sphericam Debuts Baseball-sized VR Camera

by Chris Chinnock

European start-up Sphericam has announced that it’s going into full-scale production in the U.S. this summer with the a 360˚ VR camera capable of live streaming in 4K. The camera, called Sphericam 2, is …

Nokia Offers New VR Solutions: Shows Live VR Experience

by Chris Chinnock

At NAB, Nokia Technologies announced new solutions to complement the company’s OZO virtual reality (VR) camera, including live VR broadcasting, 3D stitching, and a VR player software development kit (SDK). The new tools and …