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Sky D expands UHD and Dolby Atmos coverage for Bundesliga matches

August 19, 2025 10.15 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

German pay-TV broadcaster Sky Deutschland will show more Bundesliga matches in UHD/HDR and Dolby Atmos than ever before, including Friday evening games for the first time.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, TV Tagged With: Alessandro Reitano, Arkin Kol, Bundesliga, Dolby Atmos, HDR, Sky Deutschland, UHD Edited: 21 August 2025 08:33

Paramount+ to launch premium and ad-tier plans in DACH

March 24, 2025 09.50 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Paramount+, the global streaming service from Paramount, will debut two new subscription tiers in Germany, Switzerland and Austria (DACH) this year.

Filed Under: Editor's Choice, Newsline, Platforms, Streaming Tagged With: 4K, Axel Springer, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Vision, Full HD, HDR10+, Lee Sears, Marco Nobili, Paramount, Paramount+, UHD, Visoon Edited: 26 March 2025 14:26

Insight TV first 4K HDR channel on Sunrise’s TV neo OTT app

May 10, 2019 10.57 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Insight TV will be the first 4K UHD HDR channel to launch on Sunrise’s new TV neo max OTT app.

Filed Under: Newsline, OTT, TV, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, Apple TV, Insight TV, Sunrise, Switzerland, UHD Edited: 10 May 2019 11:08

TDF expands UHD trial on DTT

December 15, 2018 13.53 Europe/London By Robert Briel

The French media authority CSA has authorised TDF to operate a third pilot channel to broadcast in Ultra High Definition (UHD/4k) in Île-de-France, Nantes and Toulouse.

Filed Under: Newsline, Terrestrial, TV, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, CSA, DTT, France, TDF, UHD Edited: 17 December 2018 10:42

Smithsonian Networks launches premium OTT SVOD service

December 14, 2018 09.51 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Smithsonian Networks is launching Smithsonian Channel Plus, a new ad-free subscription on-demand streaming service featuring over a thousand hours of content.

Filed Under: Newsline, On Demand/VOD, OTT, TV, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, Smithsonian Networks, UHD, US Edited: 14 December 2018 09:51

200m homes have an Ultra HD TV set

December 9, 2018 16.27 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The number of homes worldwide using an Ultra HD TV has now passed the 200 million mark, according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics’ Connected Home Devices service.

Filed Under: Newsline, Research, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, 8K, Strategy Analytics, UHD Edited: 10 December 2018 10:49

Insight TV‘s 4K UHD content now streams to Windows devices

October 30, 2018 11.53 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Insight TV has announced that its 4K UHD content is now available to stream on all Universal Windows Platform (UWP) devices.

Filed Under: Newsline, OTT, TV Tagged With: 4K, Graeme Stanley, Insight TV, Intel, Streaming Video, UHD, Windows Edited: 30 October 2018 11:53

Third of video subscribers claim UHD impacts choice of video services

October 11, 2018 10.55 Europe/London By Julian Clover

Men aged between 25 and 34 are the most interested in the availability of Ultra High Definition (UHD), according to a new IHS Markit survey.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: IHS Markit, UHD, Ultra HD Edited: 12 October 2018 11:14

Italian operas from RAI to air on Funbox UHD platform

September 21, 2018 09.01 Europe/London By Robert Briel

SPI has formed a strategic deal with Italian public broadcaster RAI to bring Italian operas to Filmbox UHD platform.

Filed Under: Newsline, TV, Ultra HD Tagged With: 4K, Funbox, Italy, RAI, SPI, UHD Edited: 21 September 2018 09:01

4K STB global installed base reached 31 million units in 2017

September 20, 2018 14.25 Europe/London By Broadband TV News Correspondent

The global installed base for 4K Set-top Boxes have grown to 31 million units, at the end of 2017, compared to only 3 million units in 2015, according to Data’s.

Filed Under: Newsline, Research, Set-Top Boxes, Ultra HD Tagged With: $k, Dataxis, UHD Edited: 20 September 2018 14:25

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