Eutelsat is partnering with Asian satellite provider ST...

Eutelsat is partnering with Asian satellite provider ST Teleport to deliver a 4K TV channel on the Eutelsat 70B satellite that reaches Southeast Asia and Australia, the companies said Friday. Content for the 4K feed is encoded in High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) by Ateme and Thomson Video Networks at 50 frames per second with 10-bit color depth, the companies said. They will display the feed at the Eutelsat stand at CommunicAsia 2014, which begins Tuesday in Singapore, using a Samsung 65-inch UE65HU7500 TV, they said. The channel also can be received by 4K TVs equipped with DVB-S2 demodulators and HEVC decoders, they said. Content to be shown will include documentaries and cultural and sports programming, they said.