BT Sport in 4k UHD - BT TV customers only
Heya,
Just wanted to mention that BT appear to be the first to bring a 4k Ultra HD channel to market here. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php...t-top-box.html http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/7...announced.html It will be delivered via IPTV, using BT Openreach's Fibre Multicast service. To order the service a customer must have a minimum downstream speed estimate of 44Mb/s. The stream itself is expected to require in the region of 20-30Mb/s. I've no idea where Sky or VM are as far as 4k goes. VM are, I believe, still using MPEG2 for their broadcast channels, while Sky are using MPEG4 AVC, and both deliver at 1080i only. Both would need, obviously, to deliver a new STB, and for Sky satellite bandwidth is expensive - an entire Astra transponder delivers 43.88Mb/s for picture, sound, data, everything, so not much room left on a transponder once a 4k channel has been placed there. In VM's case they are both doing work to use their existing network capacity more efficiently, and they are progressively rebuilding networks that are a little short of capacity, largely to supply additional bandwidth for IP services and replace restricted return path components with components that are field upgradeable to full DOCSIS 3.1 high-split return path. I doubt either will be that far behind, but both might allow BT a moment in the sun given 4k is still quite niche, and whether either are going to rush an STB refresh is debatable. |
Re: BT Sport in 4k UHD - BT TV customers only
With the exception of PPV movies and possibly a little On Demand what else would VM have to show no wonder they aren't rushing into it.
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Re: BT Sport in 4k UHD - BT TV customers only
SKY will be releasing their new PVR soon. Google Project Ethan. Will support 4k delivered over the internet, rather than satellite, if rumours are to be believed
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