MIPTV to Feature Extensive 4K Ultra HD Program

PARIS: There will be an extensive program dedicated to 4K Ultra HD at this year’s MIPTV, including the 4K World Premiere Screening of NHK’s new Asian Fantasy series Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit.

With full 4K projection, MIPTV will host 12 conference sessions and a keynote speech on Tuesday, April 5, delivered by Bill Baggelaar, the senior VP of technology at Sony Pictures Entertainment. Baggelaar will discuss the challenge of producing high-quality Ultra HD episodic drama on time and on budget.

Delegates will also have the opportunity to watch the first episode of Moribito on Monday, April 4, during the MIPTV Opening Party. Atsushi Ochi, senior producer at NHK, said: “It took three years of filming to adapt the original 12-volume Moribito novel to 22 episodes of drama for television. 4K technology helped to visualize the grand scale of the original story in a very colorful and vivid way.”

Other companies presenting new Ultra HD content during the conferences include Atlantic Productions, BBC, DJazz, Eutelsat, Globo TV, Insight TV, In Front Sports, Orange, Paramax, Pearl TV, Red Bull Media, Saint Thomas Productions, SkyPerfect TV, Sky Italia, Travel XP and UHD-1.

Chris Forrester, the 4K Ultra HD program’s executive producer, said, “By any measure this is the biggest gathering of top line broadcasters and program producers to showcase the most spectacular examples of 4K content and the latest news on Ultra HD transmission.”

The official Knowledge partner of the MIPTV 4K Ultra HD program is Sony Corporation (Japan).