Ligue 1: PSG - Monaco (29/01/2017) "Accessible to Canal+ and Orange subscribers in 4K" (Canal+)

"The Sunday night game (Paris Saint Germain - AS Monaco, Matchday 22 of Ligue 1 on 29/01/2017 at 21:00) will be available to subscribers of the broadband offers Orange and Canal+ in 4K,", said François-Charles Bideaux, production director for sport for the Groupe Canal+, to News Tank Football on 27/01/2017. This will be the first broadcast of a Ligue 1 game in 4K defition.

Canal+, the domestic broadcaster of Ligue 1 for the 2016-2020 period, uses "a model of simulcast production. We produce the whole game in Ultra HD, and the HD signal is converted from the 4K signal," said the director of Canal+. The broadcast of the Ligue 1 game on Sunday evenings (21:00), in collaboration with the LFP, will be done in Ultra HD (4K), Canal+ had announced on 12/01/2017.

"We have been working on this (4K technology) for more than a year with a series of tests. First choosing all the technical equipment (cameras, video mixers, etc.), and then making editorial decisions, the position of cameras for the best rendering of Ultra HD in these tests, etc. To determine to what mode of production worked…