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CRITERION COLLECTION TO LAUNCH ITS OWN VOD SERVICE
The Criterion Collection is starting its own on-demand service in spring next year. The brand is renowned for its high-end releases of artistically and historically significant films. The Criterion Collection had been available on Turner’s classic film service FilmStruck, until FilmStruck abruptly shut down last month. The loss of an online Criterion Collection service was met with dismay by film-makers and film enthusiasts worldwide. “We are incredibly touched and encouraged by the flood of support we’ve been receiving since the
letters and newspaper articles, and raised your voices to let the world know how much our mission and these movies matter to you.” The new Criterion Channel will continue with the same types of programming and series that had been available on FilmStruck. The new service will be wholly owned and controlled by the Criterion Collection. The service aims to open in the US and Canada at launch, with additional territories rolled out later. The Criterion library will also be available through a new WarnerMedia consumer platform, which is due to launch in late 2019.
announcement that FilmStruck is shutting down,” announced the Criterion Collection on its official website. “Our thanks goes out to everyone who signed petitions, wrote
NHK LAUNCHES FIRST 8K TV CHANNEL
NHK began regular 8K broadcasting this month. On 1 December the Japanese public broadcaster launched two new channels, one broadcasting in 4K, the other in 8K. “I believe this will be the world’s first 8K TV channel,” said NHK senior producer, Mika Kanaya, in an interview earlier this year at MIPCOM. The 8K channel will kick off with specially produced 8K content, including concerts by three major European orchestras – the Berlin Philharmonic, the Vienna Philharmonic and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. The 8K channel will broadcast 12 hours and ten minutes of 8K content each
day, while the new 4K channel will broadcast 18 hours of content. 8K, or Super Hi-Vision, offers a resolution 16 times that of HDTV (7680x4320 pixels) and higher frame rates, including 120, 60 and 59.94fps. NHK’s Super Hi-Vision format also features 22.2 channel immersive audio, which includes top, middle and bottom speakers, in addition to left and right and surround, as well as a LFE (low frequency effects) speaker. broadcast infrastructure in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, including 8K coverage of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. NHK has been aggressively developing its 8K capture and
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