The “clásico”, the first live sporting event to be broadcast in Spain on UHDTV

Movistar+ will offer the possibility of enjoying the most anticipated match in 4K for its customers with fiber optics.

Ultra High Definition is beginning to take its first steps in Spain in terms of broadcasting live events. Next Saturday, Movistar+ will offer the possibility of enjoying Real Madrid-Barça in UHD 4K.

The “classic” will be available on dial 444 for Movistar+ customers who access their television offer through Fiber Optic (both 30 and 300 Megas), who have contracted any of the packages that include Canal+ Liga HD (Football package and Premium HD packages), and who have a Samsung Smart TV UHD television from the 2015 range compatible with the “Movistar+ Ready” functionality.

This functionality allows Movistar+ users to enjoy their television service without a decoder, since it is integrated into the television itself. In this way, each user enjoys a complete Movistar+ experience, of the highest quality, with less equipment in their home, cables and using the television remote control itself. “Movistar+ Ready” is available for most Samsung Smart TVs from the 2014 and 2015 ranges.

Ultra High Definition allows you to display images four times more detailed than a traditional HD broadcast. Through this technology, which offers images of more than 8 million pixels, you can enjoy images with a depth and contrast not achieved until now. In addition, thanks to the use of 50 frames per second, instead of the 25 used in traditional HD, a great improvement is obtained in the sensation of real movement.

This quality cannot be achieved without important technical requirements for signal processing and transport. These requirements are particularly demanding for live events. Therefore, to ensure that the signal arrives with the highest quality from the broadcast location to the television, state-of-the-art coding equipment will be used. Thomson Video Networks.

Mediapro, which will be in charge of the production of the signal and its distribution throughout the world, will take advantage of this important sporting event to test different 4K cameras on the market and test the performance possibilities of other components in the workflow such as mixers, servers or slow motion and repetition systems. In this last case, Mediapro will once again trust in the technology of EVS.

Football in 4K at the Movistar flagships

Movistar+ wants to celebrate its first Clásico in 4K and is organizing viewing in its Madrid and Barcelona Flagships from two 78” curved Samsung UHD televisions in a special pass for clients and media in which attendees will be able to enjoy the first Madrid-Barcelona of the season in 4K.