Le Corsaire. Photo: SES

[Via Satellite 03-29-2016] SES, in collaboration with European culture channel Arte, will be broadcasting the Le Corsaire ballet live in Ultra-HD from the Vienna State Opera via the orbital position Astra 19.2 degrees east. The Ultra-HD live broadcast will begin at 19:00 CET on April 2.

SES will broadcast the ballet Free-to-Air (FTA) on the UHD1 demo channel, launched jointly by HD+ and Astra in September 2015. The show can be received with Ultra-HD screens equipped with High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC) decoders. SES Platform Services, a subsidiary of SES, will manage the live-encoding and satellite uplink.

“The high resolution of Ultra-HD emphasizes the visual quality of the ballet. The sets, the dancers’ movements and their costumes look very vivid from every angle,” said Alain Le Diberder, program director at Arte.