Moving the Ultra HD Industry Forward: A Tale of Two Consortiums

The Ultra HD Forum has many member companies active in France. For this first newsletter, we asked two vendors from the encoding side to tell us how they perceived the French market from a UHD perspective. Harmonic’s View on UHD Innovation in France Harmonic has contributed to UHD technology innovation in France for many years, […]

by Guy Ducos, HDR Business Development, PHILIPS IP&S (Ultra HD Forum member by way of FAVN) While France is working toward Terrestrial Broadcast Modernization for 2024, several French broadcasters have expressed their ambition to augment their terrestrial distribution offer with one or more HbbTV 2.0 services. Indeed, several new opportunities can arise from this approach: […]

The 2021 French Open was shown with some UHD component technologies by at least 16 commercial services that we counted, representing a 100% increase over last year. The tally of services was provided by Harmonic and Yoeri Geutskens (@UHD4K). The proportion of HDR operators decreased with examples such as Sky Sports using only SDR, unlike […]

We attended a full-day symposium held in Paris in June after several postponements due to the sanitary situation. The day was structured around three roundtables, first on the Terrestrial TV of today, then Terrestrial TV during the pandemic, and most importantly for us, the third one on tomorrow’s terrestrial TV in France. The hot innovation […]

Powered by SMPTE Original Air Date: Wednesday 21 July 2021 | 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM (EDT) Interop is a key issue in Ultra HD technology from glass (camera) to glass (screen), and the Forum with its member companies has had this focus right from the start and over the last six years we have […]