World Premiere of New Technology at Roland-Garros 2013 Tennis Tournament

The French Tennis Federation (FFT) and France Télévisions, the official broadcaster and executive producer of the Roland-Garros Tennis Tournament, are pleased to jointly inaugurate the new "Ultra High Definition" television format during this 2013 edition of the French open.
This new format, also called '4K', delivers an image four times superior to the current high definition TV. As was the case seven years ago for High Definition, it is again at Roland-Garros that this "world first" will take place during the second week of the tournament, with the live multi-camera capture of the competition on the Philippe Chatrier court.

This innovation, a major step for live television production, will be visible in a showroom of France Télévisions, located on the ground floor of the Philippe Chatrier court in the RG LAB. RG LAB visitors will be able to experience the quality of 4K images in either live viewing or replay. Experts will be available on site to answer questions from the public about this new technology.

Always committed to innovation, the FFT and France Télévisions are very proud to be once again presenting the latest technological developments in television on the occasion of the Roland-Garros tournament. For this project, the FFT and France Télévisions have joined forces with AMP VISUAL TV for image capture, ATEME for the digital compression of the signal and EUTELSAT for satellite broadcasting.