Theatre drives Spain’s first live Ultra HD broadcast


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Juan Fernandez Gonzalez

| 22 April 2016




Spain’s Ultra HD industry is taking Teatro Real live on 4K for few hours in a pilot satellite-DTT experience.



4k teatro realThe country’s public broadcaster RTVE, satellite operator Hispasat and DTT company Cellnex will be the three main forces behind the 4K experience. But the live broadcasting will also rely on Albalá Ingenieros, Kinépolis, Hurí, Ovide, EVS, Dolby, Ericsson, Samsung, Abacanto Soluciones, SAPEC, Hewlett Packard and ATEME.

The transmission of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal in 4K at the Kinépolis cinema in Madrid will be carried over satellite through Hispasat’s infrastructure, and, thanks to Cellnex, the Ultra HD signal will be received through DTT in some areas of the country’s capital and Barcelona.

RTVE will handle the project's production, technical coordination and execution, and Albalá Ingeniores has supplied the optical infrastructure to Abacanto to transport the signal from various locations to the broadcasting centre.

Although it’s the first live 4K experience in Spain, the same player previously joined forces to develop Ultra HD technology in the country and other parts of the world. Indeed, Hispasat was the first satellite operator to broadcast in 4K in Latin America via its Hispasat 30W-3 satellite.