While there’s a sense of growing enthusiasm for 4K/Ultra-HDTV transmissions from equipment vendors, display manufacturers, satellite operators and perhaps even some well-heeled early adopters, some experts are urging caution while almost pleading for various industry elements to pull their fingers out in order not to disappoint the public.

The market for Ultra-HD TV panels reached a significant new benchmark in March when global shipments exceeded 1 million units for the first time, driven by vastly increased deliveries from the industry’s three largest makers of the high-end panels, according to a report from IHS Technology.

Blackmagic Design has today announced that its URSA Mini 4.6K and URSA Mini Pro cameras were used to produce a live YouTube broadcast during this year’s Ultra Music Festival (UMF). For the first time at the UMF, DJs on the Main Stage were captured and broadcast in stunning 4K.

Designed for events, staging and rental applications, the PT-RQ32K develops 27,000 centre lumens at 5120 x 3200 resolution.

The Ultra HD Forum, a global advocacy body with a mission to facilitate the adoption of UHD and related technologies, announced today that its membership has grown significantly, as the industry ramps up for UHD commercial deployments. The Ultra HD Forum’s membership has tripled to 20 member companies from the original founding charter members who included Dolby Laboratories, Ericsson, Harmonic, LG Electronics, NeuLion, and Sony.

UK based 3D Visual Enterprises has acquired 100% of Meduza Systems LLC, the Irvine, CA based award-winning developer of the 3D cameras, the Meduza TITAN and the Meduza MK1, it was announced today by Chris Cary, CEO of the newly formed combined company, re-named Meduza Systems Ltd.

A report in Display Daily from highly regarded industry analyst Chris Chinnock says that HDR and WCG displays will rapidly become mainstream. He states: “Nearly every UHD TV in 2016 will support the basic HDR-10 level of HDR. Most will have HDMI 2.0a connectors to be able to read static metadata, which is part of HDR-10.”

After extensive research and testing of various encoding solutions, Bern-based telecommunications service provider, Swisscom, has selected Rohde & Schwarz to provide ultra high definition (UHD) encoding facilities for the upcoming Russia 2018 soccer championship.  

UEFA has selected the UEFA Champions League semi-finals between Manchester City and Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid and Bayern Munich for the first European demonstration of the newly launched Nokia OZO 360 virtual reality camera in a sporting environment.

UEFA has delivered the world’s first uncompressed UHD remote production trial during the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship Final, held in Poland in June, in collaboration with Snell Advanced Media (SAM) and system’s integrator, Gearhouse Broadcast. During the Championship final game, the IP system – which replaced a traditional OB set up - delivered live camera signals from the Marshal Józef Piłsudski Stadium in Krakow, Poland to UEFA who were located at BT Sport’s facility at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, around 1600km away, ready for live edit and playout.

More than 5,000 people watched the Champions League final match in 3D at the cinema, in a unique and pioneering initiative taken by TV3 to cinemas across Catalonia. A total of 22 cinemas in 17 cities offered the only 3D images of Barça’s victory that were available in Spain, in a broadcast by TV3 and by TV3HD channels in parallel to that of television. Six cinemas in Barcelona city, as well as cinemas in Mataró, Terrassa, Gavà, L’Hospitalet and Badalona sold out all available tickets. Overall, 75% of seating space in all cinemas that broadcast the match in 3D was filled.

FC Barcelona were on the receiving end of a heavy 0-4 defeat in Munich, as the Blaugrana were outclassed by a Bayern side full of hunger, desire and discipline. Thomas Müller opened the scoring on 25 minutes with a close-range finish, and Mario Gomez doubled the hosts’ advantage with a similar finish just four minutes after the half-time break. Arjen Robben made it three with less than 20 minutes remaining before Müller rounded off a superb night for the Bavarians with his second of the evening on 82 minutes. For this year at least, Barcelona’s UEFA Champions League dreams are all but over.

Today UEFA will produce the 2015 UEFA Champions League final in Berlin live in 4K. The match will be broadcast live from the world-famous Olympiastadion in Berlin in stunning ultra-high definition, and the production company TopVision will use Sony’s new HDC-4300 4K/HD live production camera.

NAB Show in Las Vegas will see the world premiere of two new 4K 50/60p slow-motion replay servers. Slomo.tv will show at their booth SL6321 the RED ARROW and BlackJack 4K - two new product family members that push the boundaries of slow-motion replay servers even further. With these new products the company once again sets new standards

At the 9th of December 2015 Broadcast Solutions held its Broadcast Innovation Day at the company’s headquarters in Germany. During the event visitors had the chance to witness the world premiere of two new members to the slomo.tv product family. With BlackJack 4K and Arrow 4K the company once again sets a new standard in slow motion servers. Initially planned for this years’ NAB show both products were shown for the first time at the Broadcast Innovation Day and are available immediately.