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Funbox UHD Channel Goes Live

by Bob Raikes

Sony Pictures International (SPI) has added an UltraHD application to the Amazon Fire TV and also made the UltraHD channel on the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite neighbourhood at 13º East fully active. The channel on …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 41

LDM Product Roundup – Vol 23 No 40

by Bob Raikes

Inneos said at the Ceatec show that it has developed a consumer-ready optical extender capable of delivering HDMI 4K60, 4:4:4 color with support for HDR and other advanced features on a single fibre, over …

Tags:Ceatec 2016| Field Monitors| HDMI| Large Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 40

Google Supports Dolby Vision in Ultra Puck

by Bob Raikes

Google had a busy week at its Pixel developers’ conference this week and said it would start to deliver video content in UltraHD to its ‘Google Play Movies & TV’ service in November. The …

Tags:4k| Google| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Streaming Dongles| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 39

UHD in India Set for Growth

by Yvette Raikes

A report from US research firm Grand View Research says that the global 4K STB market will reach $7.18 billion by 2024, with growing UltraHD viewing contributing to this. Over the next eight years, …

Tags:4k| India| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 39

UHD Comes to Sky Germany

by Yvette Raikes

As promised, Sky Deutschland’s On Demand service will offer films in UltraHD from this month. These can be downloaded overnight onto the 1TB hard disk on the Sky+ Pro box, which has three times …

Tags:Germany| Large Display Monitor| Sky| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Globo Launches 4K HDR VOD

by Yvette Raikes

Latin American commercial TV network, Globo, is using ATEME’s Titan to run its 4K HDR VOD offering, the first in Brazil. Content with UHD resolution is available on Globo’s OTT multi-screen platform, which includes …

Tags:4k| HDR - High Dynamic Range| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

DVB Expecting HDR Decisions Soon

by Bob Raikes

DVB held its ‘same procedure as last year’ press conference on the first day of IBC. Peter MacAvock is the newly elected chairman of the DVB to replace Phil Laven. MacAvock started by introducing …

Tags:Broadcast| DVB| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

More, Better, Faster!

by Bob Raikes

Over the last couple of years, I have checked out almost all of the companies at IBC that were talking about UltraHD. This year, that simply wouldn’t have been possible as everybody was talking …

Tags:Broadcast| HDR - High Dynamic Range| HFR - High Frame Rate| IBC 2016| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

IBC 2016 Round Up

by Bob Raikes

ABox42 is a German STB maker that started by being more flexible than the global brands in making relatively small designs and production runs, which suits the many small cable vendors in Germany and …

Tags:360 Degree Cameras| Colour Critical Monitors| HDR - High Dynamic Range| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| OTT Video| Semiconductors| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| STBs| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

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 …

Tags:Broadcast| HD+ (Germany)| IBC 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Satellite| SES| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Netflix Boosts UltraHD in Australia

by Milos Pavlovic

A Samsung VP in Australia has said that a big factor in driving Samsung UltraHD TV sales in the region is the availability of UltraHD content from Netflix, with around 15% of content available …

Tags:Large Display Monitor| Netflix| UltraHD| Vol 23 - Issue 37