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KOREA TURNS ON 5G NETWORKS Three Korean wireless operators, Korea′s SK Telecom (SKT), KT Corp and LG Uplus,
SPORTS STREAMER DAZN EXPANDS TO BRAZIL
of 5G smartphone rollout starting in March of this year. KT Corp has been recovering from a disruption caused by a fire in one of its Seoul headquarters, but according to Korean business news outlet Pulse (pulsenews. co.kr), KT is nonetheless preparing frequency transmission for its commercial 5G service that is up to 20 times faster than the long-term evolution network. US operator Verizon launched a limited commercial 5G service last October.
activated 5G networks on 1 December. SK Telecom 5G service has launched in Seoul and six other cities, and expects to launch the 5G service nationwide by the end of 2019. Its first services will be aimed at the corporate sector with the supplying of routers and other customised services. LG Plus has been aggressively installing 5G base stations across the country in anticipation
Sports streaming service DAZN is launching in Brazil in March. The news came hot on the heels of DAZN’s announcement of a launch in Spain later this year. Catering to Brazil’s national obsession, the ‘Netflix for sports’ has acquired exclusive rights for all Copa Sudamericana football matches from 2019 from CONMEBOL, South America’s football governing body. DAZN will also show all Serie A TIM and Ligue 1 games exclusively until 2021, with more rights acquisitions to be announced soon. Prior to launch, DAZN is offering select Serie A TIM and Ligue 1 matches free via Facebook and YouTube. Simon Denyer, CEO of DAZN Group, said: “Launching in Brazil with such significant rights is a huge moment for DAZN, cementing us as the fastest-growing sports broadcaster in the world. We’ve expanded our footprint to nine countries on four continents in just over two years, and that is only the beginning.” DAZN is available in Japan, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Canada, Italy and the US.
MY PROPRIETARY TECHNOLOGY SENSE IS TINGLING Can you patent an artistic technique? Sony Pictures thinks so.
According to a story broken by industry news site Deadline Hollywood, Sony has applied for patent protection for the process it employed in its new film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse . The film’s animation design and style, which uses CG techniques enhanced with manual touch-ups by human (yes, real human) artists has been widely praised. Deadline summarised Sony’s application to the U.S. Patents & Trademarks Office, which claims “unique rendering and compositing technologies that can artistically modify the smooth shading of a surface via ‘stylised quantisation’. Those technologies can add specific patterned-controls over the break-up of light hitting skin and also integrate half-tone dots and hatched lines”. Also outlined in the application were a new type of ink-line software, a machine-learning
component that predicts the position of lines on the next frame, and “stylised abstractions of reality” constructed with new shading tools. Whether Sony’s claim is a good old fashioned big studio marketing stunt, or an animation revolution in the making, FEED would love a behind-the-scenes peek!
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