At the end of the week in Luxembourg SES company - one of the largest operators of satellite TV - broadcast the first video transmission quality Ultra HD (3840 x 2160 pixels) encoded in the standard HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding). Last year for the same purpose coding used was MPEG-4 AVC (H.264). The new standard was reportedly capable one and a half times to increase coding efficiency. After all, even for HEVC-codec, the flux was 20 Mbit / s.
Test broadcast was carried out in the standard DVB-S2. As a hardware platform for encoding and transmission of solutions used Harmonic - ProMedia Xpress, and Broadcom company- BCM7445. The emergence of commercial channels broadcast-quality Ultra HD is needed to stimulate the transition of consumers to new television sets.