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LUTs for Single Stream SDR-HDR Live Production used for the Olympics Shared with the Industry by NBCU

December 22nd, 2022
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Early live Ultra HD transmissions, including HDR, have been at the bleeding edge for over five years. One unfortunate side effect has often resulted in subpar SDR for consumers that didn’t have access to an HDR-capable set. With global events that include dozens of cameras and complex workflows, it is not commercially viable to maintain […]

Climbing the Ultra HD OTT ladder

October 18th, 2022
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By Thierry Fautier, Past President of the Ultra HD Forum, VP Strategy at Harmonic. I will provide in this blog some personal insights and observations on the Ultra HD OTT market, looking at it from different perspectives: services worldwide, special events, characteristics of production and distribution, devices, interop, and challenges remaining. Version 3 (major updates […]

Newest Version of ATSC 3.0 System Standard Addresses HDR Emission

May 26th, 2022

The ATSC “System Standard” (Document A/300) is the central guiding document in the ATSC 3.0 suite of standards. Updated annually, it details the most recent versions of the ATSC 3.0 standards in force for that year and provides general informative guidance about the standards. The latest version,  ATSC A/300:2022-04 “System Standard,” passed the ATSC membership […]

What’s new in the UltraHD Forum’s Guidelines v2.6?

April 19th, 2022
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With the NAB Show this year, we hope to return to the normal pace of new developments in the TV business. Despite COVID, UHD has continued to grow both in the number of channels and services delivering UHD video (as you can see in our ever-growing Service Tracker) and in the development of new technologies […]

Brazil adopts TV 3.0 with many component technologies described in the Ultra HD Forum’s Guidelines

March 29th, 2022
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After a lengthy and challenging Call for Proposals (CFP) for a next-generation digital TV system called “TV 3.0”, the Brazilian Terrestrial Television System Forum (SBTVD) recently finalized the technical evaluation phase. The SBTVD Forum has thoroughly tested and evaluated different technologies for distributing current and future formats up to 8K resolution to broadcast and OTT […]

UHD Coverage of the UEFA 2020 Football Championship

December 12th, 2021
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There are many ways to slice and dice a market, for example, whether to count affiliate networks or not. We focused here just on services that picked up a feed directly from the IBC and, as with our Service Tracker, that also have a recognizable commercial brand that viewers can interact with to watch the live […]

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