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Animal Planet Claims First 60fps UltraHD Programme

by Tom Allen

Animal Planet (owned by Discovery) claims to have the first TV series to have been shot and post-produced in UltraHD at 60fps. The series, Too Cute, is about kittens and puppies. It consists of …

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Broadcom Drives Free’s UltraHD STB

by Tom Allen

Free, a French company that has developed an UltraHD Android STB, is powering the box with a Broadcom chip. The Freebox uses a BCM7252 SoC and can show streamed, terrestrial, VoD and recorded content. …

Ateme Claims to Double HEVC Processing Speed

by Tom Allen

Ateme has developed a new transcoder that is claimed to double HEVC file processing speed. The Titan File is applicable to both large and small screens; it ‘improves…video quality and bandwidth efficiency’ of content …

Netflix Future Proofs Programming With 6k Recording

by Tom Allen

Netflix, according to The Hollywood Reporter, has shot season three of its original programme, House of Cards, in 6k resolution. Netflix apparently used cameras from Red to accomplish the high-resolution challenge, with Encore handling …

Free’s Android Box Plays UltraHD Content

by Tom Allen

Free, a French company, has launched the ‘Freebox Mini 4k’ – a gateway/set-top box that runs Android TV and can play UltraHD content. It consists of two units: a server and a player. The …

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TV Panels Get Bigger and More Feature-Rich

by Tom Allen

Sources at Innolux and AUO expect UltraHD TV panels to represent more than 30% of 50″+ LCD units shipped this year – a trend seen in December. Innolux also expects its wide colour gamut …

Nvidia Reaffirms Move to Gaming Products With Streaming Console

by Tom Allen

Nvidia has hit back at Razer’s Forge TV (Razer Strikes Nvidia’s Shield) with its own Android-based game-streaming set-top box: the Shield Android TV Console (doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue – TA). It is …

ZTE Hard Codes to Lower CPU Load

by Tom Allen

A new quad-core set-top box, running Android 4.4, has been launched by ZTE worldwide. The B760H plays both IPTV and OTT content using dedicated hardware. 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless communication is also supported.

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Witbe Supports UltraHD Conformance Testing

by Tom Allen

Witbe, which monitors the quality of experience for service providers’ and content owners’ IP video, has added UltraHD support to its product offering. The company is now able to perform lab testing and live …

Panasonic Goes All-Out With UltraHD

by Tom Allen

More information has been revealed about Panasonic’s 2015 UltraHD TV lineup for the European market. At CES this year we saw the company’s new flat TV, the CX850 (Panasonic is Big on B2B), which …

DirecTV Warns Over OTT Margins

by Tom Allen

DirecTV added 149,000 subscribers in Q4’14, the company has said, ending the year with 20.35 million US subscribers. 903,000 subscribers joined the company in Latin America. CEO Mike White cautioned that OTT margins are …

IOC Has ‘No Plans’ for UltraHD in Rio

by Tom Allen

The Internal Olympics Committee has said that it has ‘no plans” for UltraHD TV broadcasts during the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro. Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcast Services, said, “There is no …