The French Tennis Open 2021, state of play in UHD
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 […]
In-Depth: Ultra HD and the Future of Terrestrial Broadcast TV in France
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 […]
UHD services come in all sizes
Since the latest update this week of the B2C services, the UHD Service Tracker now tracks almost 300 service providers in the world that offer Ultra HD video content to their customers (B2B) or subscribers (B2C). The B2C services went from 189 to 209 in six months with a few services that we are aware of but […]
What’s in a name
By Sam Matheny Ultra HD Forum Board Member, CTO & Executive Vice President at the National Association of Broadcasters. In Act II, Scene I of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet both asks a question and answers it with a profound statement, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell […]
Bang for the Bit – Benefits of HDR
The Ultra HD Service Tracker list business to consumer (B2C) and business to business (B2B) TV services around the world that offer Ultra HD video content. Now, Ultra HD covers a few different spatial formats. The most well-known in main-stream parlance is 4K resolution, but 8K resolution is also under the ‘Ultra HD’ banner, as is 1080p […]
The most popular distribution networks for Ultra HD
The Ultra HD Forum’s Service Tracker lists Ultra HD services available directly to consumers as well as channels that are offered as a B2B service to IPTV and cable operators for distribution to their subscribers. The B2B channels may be delivered in various ways, and are often done by satellite, but because they use multiple […]
