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UHD Channel in Scandinavia!

by Isaac Oburu

Danmon Group has finished building Scandinavia’s first UHD TV channel: ViaSat Sport. The channel is now transmitting selected live sport events in UHD to viewers throughout the Nordic region. Danmon also built an additional …

Russia’s Tricolor Tv First to Launch Eutelsat’s New ‘smartbeam’ Multiscreen Video Delivery Service

by Isaac Oburu

Tricolor TV, operator of one of the world’s fastest-growing TV platforms, and Eutelsat Communications announce they are collaborating on deploying the first network in Russia to use SmartBeam, Eutelsat’s new multi-screen video delivery solution. …

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Eutelsat Result 29/07/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

Eutelsat reported full year 2016 net profit of €348.5 million ($390 million), down 2% YoY from €355.2 million ($398 million). Turnover was €1.5 billion ($1.7 billion), up 3.6% YoY from €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion). …

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Tricolor Uses Eutelsat’s SmartBeam

by Tom Allen

Eutelsat and Tricolor TV are working together to deploy a network in Russia using SmartBeam, Eutelsat’s new multi-screen video delivery tool. SmartBeam uses a small satellite receiver, acting as a local CDN, to receive …

UHD Will be Helped and Hobbled by OTT

by Tom Allen

NSR has examined the UltraHD market and shared its forecast for the future, in a new report. There is a debate ongoing about the long-term prospects for the format, with some expecting it to …

25% of US Homes Are Cable-Free

by Tom Allen

As many as 25% of US TV households do not own a cable or satellite subscription, according to GfK. Households with a resident between 18 and 34 are most likely to have cut the …

Eutelsat Broadcasts Football in UHD

by Tom Allen

Eutelsat has begun to broadcast the final seven matches of the UEFA European football tournament in UltraHD. Several partners are showing the matches, including Rai in Italy, which is using V-Nova’s Perseus codec. The …

Clear Channel Expands National Adshel Live Network

by Isaac Oburu

Clear Channel UK has announced plans to expand their national Adshel Live network to 1,000 screens. The Out of Home media owner, which currently operates 600 Adshel Live units, a network of state-of-the-art digital …

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Live UHD Delivered Over Satellite

by Tom Allen

Several companies worked together at the CommunicAsia 2016 show, to deliver live HDR UltraHD TV over satellite. The demonstration took place on MEASAT’s stand. It used HEVC-encoded content at 50fps, with 10-bit colour, broadcast …

Is UHD Worth the Investment?

by Tom Allen

NSR has shared more details from its ‘UltraHD via Satellite’ report (More Satellite UHD Expected Over Next Decade), asking, “Will UltraHD boost the bottom line?” NSR previously forecast that there will be around 300 …

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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.

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 …