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Dutch Satellite Pay-TV operator Canal Digitaal will Broadcast the FIFA World Cup 14 June to 15 July 2018 from Russia in 4K via a dedicated transponder on Astra 23.5 degrees East, the operator's primary home.
Canal Digital will be delivering the FIFA World Cup matches live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) to all subscribers of Canal Digitaal from 14 June to 15 July, following an agreement with satellite operator SES and Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO/NOS the rights holder to the event.
Live, yes live, so not with an 24 hour delay like the 4K Olympics coverage.
The 4K broadcast of the World Cup Football was initiated by Dutch public broadcasters NPO and NOS, which are 'keen to enable soccer fans to enjoy an enhanced viewing experience. As innovative front runners, NPO and NOS also see this UHD transmission as an opportunity to better understand the requirements to boost the uptake of this new TV technology in Dutch homes'.
A clear reversal of position from the last time NOS had the opportunity to not lead the pack but simply follow the norm. It refused to air in the default and long established norm of 16:9 standard definition, instead cropping its coverage to the 4:3 format. It clearly has grown since the Portugal Europena Cup of 2004. A special widescreen channel was set-up to serve cable and Digital Terrestrial viewers.
NPO/NOS supplies the signal to Canal Digitaal which compresses and encrypts the signal. KPN Broadcast in Hilversum uplinks the signal to transponder 211 on the Astra 3A satellite. This transponder is additional capacity available to M7/Canal Digital on a temporary lease.
SES Video and its services division MX1, last week announced would enable Israeli public broadcaster IBPC to air the World Cup in 4K.
M7 Group the parent company to Canal Digitaal makes use of the latest generation encoders made available by Harmonic Inc. for this transmission. This implies your TV should have an DVB-S2 satellite receiver with HEVC 4K decompression on-board as the operator suggest using an 4K TV with an appropriate CI+ module and smartcard.
M7 operates several pay-tv platform in a number of Europen countries DCI Form has reached out too M7 asking if it will offer a similar service in other territories.
M7 is pleased to have been able to concluded this deal with the Dutch public broadcaster, whose satellite distribution it has managed for many years. Canal Digitaal being the country's only direct to consumer satellite platform. Only last year the first competing provider Joyne started broadcasting.
"We are very happy to join this unique experiment of NPO/NOS and quite pleased with the support provided by SES and Harmonic to enable high quality UHD transmissions via the orbital position of Astra 23.5 degrees East, says
Bill Wijdeveld, VP Business Development at M7 Group. He adds: "This is also a great opportunity to showcase the unrivalled quality of satellite as a carrier for UHD live broadcasting and we trust our Canal Digitaal subscribers will appreciate this chance to watch the World Cup matches in such superb picture and sound quality."
Ferdinand Kayser, CEO of SES Video, added: "Thanks to M7, Dutch soccer fans will be able to follow each match and cheer on their favourite players in crystal clear picture quality, and we are very proud to enable the delivery of such an immersive viewing experience. Sports events have always been great strikers for new technologies, and this UHD broadcast of the FIFA World Cup perfectly illustrates that trend".
The last major Football Cup tournament EURO 2016 in France was also covered in 4K. At that time Flemish p[ublic broadcast VRT hosted a dedicated 4K channelfor the event. That channel was carried by Dutch Telco KPN but only as part of a limited closed user trial. Making FIFA 2018 the first World Cup tournament to see full and regular 4K coverage.
Canal Digital will be delivering the FIFA World Cup matches live in Ultra High Definition (UHD) to all subscribers of Canal Digitaal from 14 June to 15 July, following an agreement with satellite operator SES and Dutch Public Broadcaster NPO/NOS the rights holder to the event.
Live, yes live, so not with an 24 hour delay like the 4K Olympics coverage.
The 4K broadcast of the World Cup Football was initiated by Dutch public broadcasters NPO and NOS, which are 'keen to enable soccer fans to enjoy an enhanced viewing experience. As innovative front runners, NPO and NOS also see this UHD transmission as an opportunity to better understand the requirements to boost the uptake of this new TV technology in Dutch homes'.
A clear reversal of position from the last time NOS had the opportunity to not lead the pack but simply follow the norm. It refused to air in the default and long established norm of 16:9 standard definition, instead cropping its coverage to the 4:3 format. It clearly has grown since the Portugal Europena Cup of 2004. A special widescreen channel was set-up to serve cable and Digital Terrestrial viewers.
NPO/NOS supplies the signal to Canal Digitaal which compresses and encrypts the signal. KPN Broadcast in Hilversum uplinks the signal to transponder 211 on the Astra 3A satellite. This transponder is additional capacity available to M7/Canal Digital on a temporary lease.
SES Video and its services division MX1, last week announced would enable Israeli public broadcaster IBPC to air the World Cup in 4K.
M7 Group the parent company to Canal Digitaal makes use of the latest generation encoders made available by Harmonic Inc. for this transmission. This implies your TV should have an DVB-S2 satellite receiver with HEVC 4K decompression on-board as the operator suggest using an 4K TV with an appropriate CI+ module and smartcard.
M7 operates several pay-tv platform in a number of Europen countries DCI Form has reached out too M7 asking if it will offer a similar service in other territories.
M7 is pleased to have been able to concluded this deal with the Dutch public broadcaster, whose satellite distribution it has managed for many years. Canal Digitaal being the country's only direct to consumer satellite platform. Only last year the first competing provider Joyne started broadcasting.
"We are very happy to join this unique experiment of NPO/NOS and quite pleased with the support provided by SES and Harmonic to enable high quality UHD transmissions via the orbital position of Astra 23.5 degrees East, says
Bill Wijdeveld, VP Business Development at M7 Group. He adds: "This is also a great opportunity to showcase the unrivalled quality of satellite as a carrier for UHD live broadcasting and we trust our Canal Digitaal subscribers will appreciate this chance to watch the World Cup matches in such superb picture and sound quality."
Ferdinand Kayser, CEO of SES Video, added: "Thanks to M7, Dutch soccer fans will be able to follow each match and cheer on their favourite players in crystal clear picture quality, and we are very proud to enable the delivery of such an immersive viewing experience. Sports events have always been great strikers for new technologies, and this UHD broadcast of the FIFA World Cup perfectly illustrates that trend".
The last major Football Cup tournament EURO 2016 in France was also covered in 4K. At that time Flemish p[ublic broadcast VRT hosted a dedicated 4K channelfor the event. That channel was carried by Dutch Telco KPN but only as part of a limited closed user trial. Making FIFA 2018 the first World Cup tournament to see full and regular 4K coverage.
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