KPN’s User-experience of HDR During the UEFA Euro 2020
UEFA Euro 2020 in Ultra HD User experiences on KPN iTV by Dolf Schinkel TV Architect, KPN Version 1.0, November 2021 Introduction The Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO broadcast the European Championship football from 18 June 2021 in Ultra HD, with 4K resolution using High Dynamic Range. KPN, a TV distributing Telco, made the Ultra HD […]
Forum Vendor Analysis of the French Market
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, […]
ARTE Launches a New HbbTV 2.0 Test Service for Live UHD Streaming Available to Industry Partners
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 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 […]
