A few days in the past information leaked out throughout a number of platforms (as reported here) revealing that British satellite tv for pc broadcaster Sky was about to introduce help for top dynamic vary to its service from Wednesday, Could 27. 

This leaked data, although, was lacking a few key bits of knowledge. One was a precise checklist by {hardware} model variety of which Sky Q receivers will be capable of deal with the brand new HLG HDR content material that’s arriving through the brand new Sky Nature channel on Wednesday. The opposite was any point out of Sky’s HDR plans with regard to the jewel in its content material crown, sport.

Sky has been in contact since my first story printed on Saturday to say that whereas it doesn’t intend to share a full checklist of appropriate Sky Q {hardware} till Wednesday, it does have a goal in thoughts for launching stay HDR sports activities broadcasts. And that focus on is an enormous one: the 2021 Summer time Olympics.

The Olympics have been moved to 2021 from this summer season, in fact, in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. However whereas this may need been a crushing if comprehensible blow for sports activities followers desperately searching for some stay sport to maintain them going by means of lockdown measures, it appears to have thrown up a possibility for Sky to kick off its stay HDR sports activities protection with the largest sporting occasion on the planet.

Although it’s value noting that the BBC normally exhibits all stay Olympics protection within the UK, so possibly Sky will simply be carrying the BBC’s HLG HDR feeds?

The 2021 Olympics aren’t scheduled to start out (Coronavirus allowing) till July 23 2021, so if Sky is, because it states in its newest official replace, concentrating on that for its stay HDR broadcast debut, then it might appear that Sky subscribers with appropriate TVs and Sky Q receivers shouldn’t anticipate to see any stay HDR Sky sport broadcasts forward of that date. Which means there gained’t be any HDR protection of the 2020-2021 soccer (soccer) season – except, possibly, Sky exhibits the occasional sport in HDR as a trial. 

This may increasingly come as a disappointment to Sky subscribers who’ve been ready for HDR since Sky first announced it was working on it way back in February 2018. However hopefully the HDR Sky Authentic exhibits and blockbuster films Sky is promising so as to add earlier than Christmas will nonetheless give AV followers a lot to get pleasure from on high to the 11 hours of HDR content material (5 one-hour episodes of Gangs Of Lemur Island, one hour-long episode of Pridelands: Wilderness Reborn and 5 one-hour episodes of Malawi: Wildlife Rescue) arriving on Wednesday.

Control my Forbes Channel or Twitter feed for an additional replace on which Sky Q receivers can and might’t deal with HDR within the subsequent couple of days.

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