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SES Updates on UltraHD and Company Development

by Bob Raikes

Ferdinand Kaiser is the CEO of SES and his talk was called ‘Meeting the exponential demand for content’. There is a forecast of 3% CAGR in the use of bandwidth for video. 70% of …

Thoughts from IBC on the Broadcast Industry

by Bob Raikes

I know that I am famous among some of my long term readers and subscribers for starting my editorials with a comment that “this has been a busy week”. Well, this one has been …

SES Has 16 UltraHD Channels

by Isaac Oburu

First half numbers for SES shows it now has 16 commercial UltraHD channels, from 0 last year. The Luxembourg-based satellite operator reports that its portfolio of 2,422 HD channels represents 32.7% of its total …

Tags:Channels| Large Display Monitor| SES| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 30

US Cable Operators Trials UHD With SES

by Isaac Oburu

Cable operators in the US are testing the UltraHD platform and receiving HEVC IP set top boxes from SES. The cable operators are Cable America in Missouri, Golden West Telecommunications in South Dakota, MTC …

SES Tests HLG HDR

by Tom Allen

SES has launched a new 24/7 UltraHD test channel, which will be used to transmit HDR content using Hybrid Log Gamma (HLG), Analyst Comment HLG is the proposed scheme for HDR from the BBC …

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 …

SES to Transmit First Ultra HD Channel in the Nordics at 5 Degrees East

by Isaac Oburu

SES S.A. announced today that Viasat will use SES capacity to broadcast its first Ultra HD (High Definition) channel.The channel, called Viasat Ultra HD, will be launched after the summer in Sweden, Norway, Denmark …

Tags:SES| UltraHD & 4K

IPTV Costs SES Cable and Terrestrial

by Tom Allen

SES has announced that it is now serving 317 million homes worldwide, including 156 million in Europe. 5 million new homes were added in the past year, and there has been 23% growth since …

SES Broadcasting Ultra HD

by Isaac Oburu

Satellite operator SES has announced it is now carrying eight Ultra HD channels. SES also said that it had signed an agreement to buy RR Media and to absorb its business with SES Platform …

Tags:4k| Large Display Monitor| SES| UltraHD (4KTV)| Vol 23 - Issue 08

SES Result 26/02/2016

by Dhruv Dayal Gupta

SES reported full year 2015 net profit of €674 million ($741 million), a 5% YoY increase. Turnover for the same period was €2 billion ($2.2 billion), a 5% YoY increase. The Mobility segment increased …

Tags:Financial Data| Large Display Monitor| SES| Vol 23 - Issue 08

HD+ Records 11.3 Percent Growth in Subscribers in 2015

by Isaac Oburu

SES S.A. announced today that its German HD platform HD+ recorded an 11.3 percent increase in subscribers in 2015. HD+ had 1.84 million subscribers at year-end 2015, compared to 1.65 million at year-end 2014. …

Tags:HD+ (Germany)| SES

SES TV Channels Grow by 11.3% in 2015, Outperforming the Industry

by Isaac Oburu

SES S.A. announced the transmission of a record number of TV channels on board its satellite fleet as of 31 December 2015. SES’s TV channel count grew by 11.3% to 7,268 channels during 2015, …

Tags:Channels| Satellite| SES