Popular TV host Rabi Lamichhane launched first 4K TV channel in Nepal. The new TV channel named ‘Galaxy 4K’ announced with the press conference organized at Kathmandu, Nepal in 23 Feb, 2020. Rabi Lamichhane is in the role of Managing Director at Galaxy TV.
Few days back Lamichhane left the News24Nepal and started the new journey with first 4K television in Nepal. Lamichhane mentioned that the TV will broadcast programs relating public voice, entertainment and news related contents.
Galaxy 4K is going to broadcast popular TV serials like Crime Patrol, Ko Bancha Crorepati, The Innovation, Sidha Kura, Ramayan, Saregama and other several programs. As presented in the press conference Rajesh Hamal will host Ko Bancha Crorepati, Rabi Lamichhane’s will host Sidha Kura, Deepak Raj Giri will host Crime Patrol, Navaraj Parajuli will host Forever, Ramesh Prasain will host Laal Mohar, Mahabir Pun will host The Innovation and Vijaya Kumar will host Sambandha.
Before the Galaxy 4K TV channel in Nepal, no any channel exist in the domain of 4K category. And this is new beginning in the TV broadcasting technology in Nepal.
In the press conference public figure were present including Rajesh Hamal, Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bansa Acharya, Kedar Ghimire, Deepak Raj Giri, Indira Joshi, Kali Prasad Baskota, Ramesh Prasai, Bijay Kumar Pandey and several other iconic persons of Nepal. Live video of the press conference can be accessed with this link.
What is 4K?
4K resolution technically refers to a horizontal display resolution of approximately 4,000 pixels.
Pixel is the smallest unit (dot shape) in the screen of any display unit like TV , computer monitor or mobile screens.
When certain pixel light-up in combination, several patterns or graphics visualized in the screen. In this way, the more pixel your screen have, the more smooth picture you will get.
Digital television and digital cinematography commonly use several different 4K resolutions. In television and consumer media, 3840 × 2160 is the dominant 4K standard, whereas the movie projection industry uses 4096 × 2160.
4K viewing is high in quality since it has more pixel in the TV screen compared to other versions like HD version which have 1920 × 1080 pixel dimension.
You can simply calculate the pixel in 4k or full HD TV. If your TV is 4K then it has 3840 × 2160 pixel ratio. That means the TV has 3,840 horizontal pixels and 2,160 vertical pixels, for a total of about 8.3 million pixels. If your TV if full HD, then your TV has 1920 × 1080 pixel ratio. That means the TV has 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high for a total of about 2.7 million pixels.
In Nepal, most of the TV channel stream video quality of SD (720 × 576 pixel ratio), HD (1280 x 720 pixels ratio) or Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels ratio) at maximum. In this way, the Galaxy 4K is first TV channel in Nepal who will send 4K videos to your TV.
Is your TV compatible for Galaxy 4K?
To view 4K videos streamed by Galaxy 4K TV, your TV should support or should have 4K display. Means, if your TV is ‘Full HD’ then you can watch Galaxy 4K programs but cannot take full advantage of Galaxy 4K videos. And this also equally apply vice-versa. Means suppose your TV has 4K display and if you watch TV shows from News24Nepal (as of now) then your video quality will not be like as Galaxy 4K.
In these case downscaling and upscaling algorithm works to fit the HD video in 4K TV and 4K video in HD TV respectively.
