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BBC reaches 489 million adults worldwide every week
Broadcaster is on track to reach half a billion people globally next year
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MediaTek launches first commercial TV chipset to support VVC for H.266 content
Pentonic 2000 will power next-generation flagship 8K TVs that are expected to launch in Q2 2022
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FORTA brings 12 new members to UHD Spain
Spanish regional networks to be inaugurated into UHD association at the 4KHDR Summit
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EBU delivers UHDTV recommendations
EBU R 153 and EBU R 154 aim to address the lack of common baseline for UHDTV exchange format
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The future of live sports: 4K UHD, immersive audio and personalised content
As video service providers and broadcasters compete for eyeballs, Harmonic's Stephane Cloirec explains why providing the best possible user experience is an excellent way...
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ITV connects with Virgin Media O2 on enhanced prominence, advertising
ITV’s live channels and the ITV Hub will also be made available through Virgin TV’s upcoming IPTV service
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Disney Plus adds IMAX Enhanced aspect ratio for Marvel titles
Streamer is collaborating with DTS to give more of its content enhanced audio and visual technology
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How to deliver quality adverts in a ‘make or break’ Christmas year
Shelby Akosa, VP global growth, creative and production at Peach, shares her thoughts on how advertisers and content creators can get ahead of advertising’s...
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Sky Sports to stream BOXXER Series in 16:9
Free stream will be available via the Sky Sports mobile app
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Study: Piracy falling in Spain, but economic impact still over €2 billion
The report, carried out by GfK, found that of the €2.416 billion of damage reported, film suffered estimated losses of €322 million, football €231...
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RTL Group launches targeted digital advertising solution for European broadcasters and streamers
Jointly-owned sales and services company, TechAlliance, will combine operations from RTL’s ad-tech company Smartclip and Yospace with Singtel’s Amobee
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BBC One begins rolling out in HD across England
BBC is aiming to launch the channel in HD across all platforms by end of 2022
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Vewd and Vestel partner on SaaS smart TV solution for pay-TV operators
The companies have come together to develop what they call a "Turnkey solution positions operators of all sizes to win the retail smart...
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Recovering the satellites: Sky raises smart TV ceiling with Sky Glass
No more satellite dishes or set-top boxes: Sky Glass will mark the first time that consumers can access Sky TV services without the traditional...
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British consumers prefer streaming to pay-TV
Roku’s The Streaming Decade report shows that British viewers are evolving away from pay-TV to streaming content, creating new advertising opportunities for content providers
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Disney Plus will become world’s largest SVoD player by 2025
A new report from Digital TV Research suggests that Disney Plus will surpass Netflix to become the leading global SVoD player in terms of...
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Synamedia achieves 8K real-time encoding with ‘zero compromise’
The team at Synamedia built compression algorithms by leveraging the full codec toolset, which meant there was no need to split the 8K signal...
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World’s largest IMAX opens with No Time to Die
Screen is wider than a Boeing 737 and weighs more than 500 pounds
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China launches new 4K/8K satellite to support Beijing Games
China Media Group is planning to launch what it calls the world's first 4K+ HD, 24/1 TV channel dedicated to the Winter Games later...
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M2A Media, InSync partner on ‘world first’ cloud-based live frame rate converter
Converter makes it easier for broadcasters to accept content in any frame rate and convert it to a high-performance feed for local output, regardless...
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Conviva: European streamers seeing ‘spinning wheel of death’ less often
According to company's latest report, in Q2 2021 video start failures were down 12 per cent in Europe overall
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Euro 2020 reaches cumulative global audience of 5.2 billion
On average, matches during the tournament reached audiences of more than 100 million fans
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BritBox launches on Roku
The "British Netflix" is now available on Roku streaming players and Roku TV models
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Feature: Are independent voices becoming lost in streaming TV shuffle?
Navdeep Saini, co-founder and CEO of DistroScale, parent company of DistroTV, looks at the Covid content collapse, where the streaming market is headed, and...
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2020 Paralympics ‘set to break all broadcast viewing records’
Live coverage from 21 disciplines across 19 sports, more than ever before, will be made available to broadcasters by Olympic Broadcasting Services
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Germany’s DFL Supercup streams in 9:16 on TikTok
It was the first time the event had been broadcast in the 9:16 format
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Euro 2020 scores more streams than the Olympics
UEFA Euro 2020 traffic peaked at 35 Tbps on the Akamai paltform versus a peak of 10 Tbps during the Olympics
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Could Freeview get an HD upgrade?
Consortium of investors is said to have pledged to make "substantial payments" to the government if it decides to auction the Freeview licence
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BT Sport gets into Hype Mode for new Premier League season
New feature includes enhanced graphics around key plays, players and shot speeds
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Discovery: More than 372 million viewers across Europe watched Tokyo 2020
Discovery presented Tokyo 2020 in 50 markets in Europe featuring 11 national productions and coverage in 19 languages
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SeaChange enables enhanced data analytics with AWS
SeaChange will leverage AWS artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) services to gain a deeper understanding of end-user engagement
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Brazil’s Globo tests 8K at Tokyo 2020
Globo partnered with Intel on the tests, with 8K HDR standard images reaching 33 million pixels
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BARB adds smartphones to four-screen viewing data
"Collecting smartphone data from our panel means that we can now report on people rather than devices," said BARB.
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Ofcom: Netflix more popular with UK viewers than pay-TV
Broadcast TV’s share of all adults’ total viewing dropped from 67 per cent in 2019 to 61 per cent
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ProSiebenSat.1 launches UHD channel
New channel kicks off with UHD coverage of the Bundesliga match between Borussia Mönchengladbach and Bayern Munich
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Discovery reports three-quarters of a billion streaming minutes during first week of Tokyo 2020
The broadcaster has also reported increases in linear viewing, particularly in the Nordic markets
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Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony ‘first mainstream 8K rip on pirate sites’
File, which includes 8K HLG and 22.2 surround sound, appears to have been taken from Japanese broadcaster NHK
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Sky dumps One, takes it to the Max
Broadcaster to replace Sky One linear channel with two new brands
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Advertising technology: A TVBEurope explainer
Watch TVBEurope's interview with Google's Justin Gupta as we try and decipher the terms and technology of advertising technology
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NASA upgrades the ISS for 4K UHD
The agency hopes to begin streaming live events from the International Space Station in 4K
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Ofcom launches full assessment into BBC Three’s linear return
The assessment now has six months in which to conduct a BCA into the proposed television channel before issuing both a proposed and final...
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How the BBC produced Euro 2020 in UHD HDR for iPlayer
For BBC One HD, the feed was downscaled to 1080i25