All UHD articles
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Industry Trends
UWA roundtable debates standards and market barriers to UHD adoption
IBC2024: A roundtable session on UHD TV brought together a wide range of experts to discuss the importance of standards and factors that can promote or hinder the adoption of the format in European and Asian markets.
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Video
Sustainability – energy efficiency, spanning devices to delivery systems
Measure, model, improve. In this session on understanding and improving energy consumption within the media and entertainment ecosystem – we have two papers looking beyond the consumer device to assess the complete energy cost of delivering a streaming service, one considers the implications of new UHD features and the other ...
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Technical Papers
Evaluating the energy impact of different dimensions of UHD
The UHD standard introduces improvements in video quality across several dimensions. Although the first to be adopted commercially was the increase in resolution, features such as high framerate and dynamic range, wide color gamut and increased bit-depth offer important gains in the quality of experience of the end user. Nevertheless, ...
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Daily News
Clipbox collab beween Qvest and Vidispine serves up newsroom efficiencies
The latest version of Qvest’s clipbox is the first studio server to fully support a new renderless workflow powered by Web Render Engine (WRE) from Vidispine (Stand 7.A15). For newsroom editors and operators, this promises improved collaboration and reduced production delays.
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Daily News
Ross Video offers pro switching for smaller operations
Carbonite Ultra Solo is a compact UHD production switcher designed to enable smaller operators to deliver professional switching.
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Thought Leadership
AV1: Helping to meet growing expectations for higher-quality streaming
The Alliance for Open Media (AOM) shares some of the challenges of the growing demand for UHD-quality streaming services and how the adoption of the new AV1 codec can help deliver new capabilities in storage and distribution.
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News
Industry titans to discuss future of UHD at IBC roundtable event
The UHD World Association (UWA) will host a UHD-focussed roundtable event for C-suite leaders in the media, tech, and broadcast sectors during IBC2024, on Sunday 15th September.
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Daily News
Vizrt reveals duo of PTZ3 cameras
The PTZ3 Plus and PTZ3 UHD Plus cameras from Vizrt deliver HD or UHD quality, 20-30x zoom, AI tracking, and, in a world first, embedded FreeD camera tracking data via NDI|HX.
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Daily News
Ophit delivers video signal conversion on a plate
The WMC series of wallplate video signal converters will be unveiled by Ophit at IBC2024. These multi-format video signal converters enable high-speed data transmission via an HDMI 2.0 TMDS-compatible optical output signal, delivering UHD/4K resolution at 60Hz without signal degradation.
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News
Champions League Final to be upscaled for UHD viewers
Warner Bros. Discovery has confirmed that the 2024 UEFA Champions League Final, taking place between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund at Wembley tomorrow (1st June), will be available in UHD HDR, scaled up from its HDR feed.
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Daily News
Amagi Dynamic for live event playout is launching at IBC
A live event playout system, Amagi Dynamic, is set to be unveiled at IBC. Designed to manage multiple simultaneous live events, Amagi Dynamic operates independently of any specific channel while providing substantial cost savings and unmatched operational flexibility.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: The Open
The 151st Open takes place at Royal Liverpool, 16-23 July with EMG in charge of pretty much all broadcast technical facilities, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Daily News
Sony’s HXC-FZ90 paves pathway to 4K production
Sony’s new HXC-FZ90 system camera is designed to enable an easier 4K migration pathway for studio and event production companies.
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Industry Trends
Behind the Scenes: Wimbledon 2023
The Championships, Wimbledon 2023 may feature more UHD and High Dynamic Range coverage than ever this year but it’s the volley of editorial firepower being served up that is the real story of the Championship’s technical production, writes Adrian Pennington.
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Daily News
Sweden’s Sappa picks Appear and Magine Pro
Sweden-based telecoms and TV services provider Sappa selected media processing and delivery technology specialist Appear and Magine Pro, a B2B managed services platform for OTT, for its OTT linear distribution media workflow including fully on-premise transcoding.
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News
Warner Bros. Discovery unveils Max streaming service
Warner Bros. Discovery is to launch streaming service Max in the US on May 23, which will combine content from its existing services HBO Max and Discovery+.
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Industry Trends
8K and UHD: ‘Don’t Focus on the Numbers - Focus on the Quality’
The webinar, Webinar: 8K content — dead or alive? covered a lot of ground, concluding that while 8K may still be in the gestation period, there is much to be said for the technology as a whole.
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Daily News
Synamedia flags World Cup beIN partnership
Synamedia revealed how its SaaS-based solution and Cognacq-Jay Image’s team of experts enabled beIN to add a 4K UHD channel to its OTT platform, beIN Connect, to stream the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
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Video
The John Logie Baird lecture: The state of video technology and the next 5 years
IBC2022: VR, 8K, 4K, 3D, HDR, Codecs, Broadcast and Streaming …. the history of video technology has hits, misses and slow burns but innovation has been a constant. We have seen the rapid move to IP across all areas, but what can we expect for the next five years? What ...