Foxtel 4K: guide

Foxtel’s new 4K channel has launched at Channel 444 for Foxtel Platinum HD or Foxtel Sports HD customers with an iQ4.

It will screen looped content ahead of its formal launch on Sunday with the Bathurst 1000 Live.

4K resolution is around 4 times the quality of 1080 HD pictures and 20 times the resolution of SD.  It requires a compatible TV and a new iQ4 set top box.

Patrick Delany, Foxtel CEO, said, “The engines are revving and wait is over – this weekend Foxtel in 4K will immerse racing fans in an incredible pit-side experience as the colour and spectacle of Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 roars to life and leaps into living rooms across Australia like you’ve never seen it before.

“This history making step in Australian broadcasting is just one of a host of new innovations that Foxtel is launching that set the gold standard for in-home entertainment, and even more are on the way with new announcements coming every month.”

Tech site EFTM has a list of the first week of programming, a mix of sport, music documentaries and a Tom Cruise film on Saturday night.

Sunday 7 October
10.10am-11.10am – Bathurst 1000 Top Ten Shootout (Replay)
11.10am-5.30pm – Bathurst 1000 Race (Live)
5.30pm-7.30pm – The Rolling Stones – Havana Moon (Stones Concert in Havana Cuba, their first concert there – Filmed in 2016)
7.30pm-7.55pm – Wild Wild East (S1E1 – Foxes) (Documentary)
7.55pm-8.30pm – X Ambassadors (American Rock Band)
8.30pm-10.15pm – The Big Wave Project (Documentary about the worlds biggest waves)
10.15pm-11.10pm – Machine Gun Kelly (US Rapper)
11.10pm-Midnight – Animal Empires (S1E1 – Family) (Documentary)

Monday 8 October
8.10am-8.35am – How It’s Made (S15E1 – Skateboard Wheels, Baklava & Galactoboureko, CO2 Scrubbers, Honeycomb Candles)
8.35am-9.30am – Brazil Untamed (S1E1 – Monkey Garden)
4.05pm-5.00pm – Borns (Music)
5.00pm-6.00pm – Spy in the Wild (S1E1 – Love) (Documentary)
6.00pm-6.55pm – One Wild Day (S1E1 – Deserts) (Documentary)
7.30pm-8.30pm – Planet Earth II (S1E1) (Documentary)
8.30pm-9.20pm – Deadly Australians (S1E1 – Forests) (Documentary)
9.20pm-10.15pm – Deadly Australians (S1E2 – Wetlands) (Documentary)
10.15pm-11.10pm – Raw Sremmurd (US Hip Hop Duo)

Tuesday 9 October
4.00pm-5.00pm – Matt Kearney (Music)
5.00pm-5.55pm – Wild Japan (S1E1 Honshu)
5.55pm-7.00pm – Take That: Live in Hyde Park (2016)
7.00pm-7.30pm – How it’s Made (S15E2 – Nuno Felt, Drum Crushers, Kimichi & Parquet Floors)
7.30pm-8.30pm – Planet Earth II (SqE2 – Mountains)
8.30pm-9.20pm – Macro Worlds (S1E1 – Winter is coming)
9.20pm-10.15pm – Macro Worlds (S1E2 – Meadow of Horror)
10.15pm-Midnight – Sting: Live at the Olympia Paris (2017)

Wednesday 10 October
4.00pm-5.00pm – Brazil Untamed (S1E2 – Bird Paradise)
5.00pm-6.00pm – Spy in the Wild (S1E2 – Intelligence)
6.00pm-6.55pm – One Wild Day (S1E2 – Grasslands)
6.55pm-7.30pm – Olly Murs: Live From Hyde Park (Music)
7.30pm-8.30pm – Planet Earth II (S1E3 – Jungles)
8.30pm-9.20pm – Big Beasts: Last of the Giants (S1E1 – The Americas)
9.20pm-10.10pm – Big Beasts: Last of the Giants (S1E2 – Australia and Asia)
10.10pm-11pm – Animal Empires (S1E2 – Rebuilding an Empire)
11.00pm-11.30pm – Corrine Bailey Rae: Live from Hyde Park (Music)
11.30pm-Midnight – How It’s Made (S15E4 – Thermoplastic Fire Helmets, Basketry Sculptures and Coffee Roasters)

Thursday 11 October
4.00pm-5.00pm – Brazil Untamed (S1E3 – Peccary party)
5.00pm-5.50pm- Wild Japan (S1E2 – The Southwest Islands)
7.30pm-8.30pm – Planet Earth II (S1E4 – Deserts)
8.30pm-10.30pm – Elvis Costello: Detour Live at Liverpool (2015)
11.30pm-Midnight – How It’s Made (S15E5 – Office Chairs, Vinobrew, Reconditioned Sander Drums, Lithographs)

Friday 12 October
4.00pm-5.00pm – Brazil Untamed (S1E4 – Jaguar Den)
5.00pm-6.00pm – Spy in the Wild (S1E3 – Friendship)
6.00pm-6.55pm – One Wild Day (S1E3 – Jungles)
7.30pm-8.30pm – Planet Earth II (S1E5 – Grasslands)
8.30pm-10.00pm – Flats (2017)
10.00pm-10.30pm – Wild Wild East (S1E2 – Rivers)
10.30pm-11.35pm – British Summer Time 2016 (Concert featuring Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Take That at Hyde Park)
11.35pm-Midnight – How it’s Made (S15E6 – Fireplace Bellows, Calissons and Driving Watercraft)

Saturday 13 October
4.00pm-5.00pm – Brazil Untamed (S1E5 – Cat Country)
6.00pm-6.55pm – Wild Japan (S1E3 – Hokkaido)
6.55pm-8.30pm – Space’s Deepest Secrets
8.30pm-10.20pm – Eric Clapton: Slowhand at 70
10.20pm-11.10pm – Big Beasts: Last of the Giants (S1e3 – Africa)
11.10pm-11.45pm – Pharrell Williams: Live from Hyde Park
11.45pm-12.10am – How it’s Made (S14E7 – Artist Brushes, Def Tank Heaters, Game Tables, and Art Glass Wall Sconces)

Sunday 14 October:
4.05pm-5.00pm – Brazil Untamed (S1E6 – Amazon Monkeys)
6.10pm-7.00pm – Shark Bait (2017 Documentary)
7.00pm-8.30pm – Muse: Live at Rome Olympic Stadium (2013)
8.30pm-10.40pm – Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise Movie)
10.40pm-11.40pm – Animal Empires (S1E3 – Invasion)

 

Access to Foxtel’s 4K channel requires an iQ4 set top box, compatible HDMI cable and compatible 4K TV. Any other connected equipment must also be compatible with Foxtel’s 4K UHD Standard. Available to customers with Sports + HD packs starting in October 2018. For more info see Foxtel.com.au/compatibility. Foxtel and some services not available to all homes.

New Satellite customers that purchase either the Sport + HD tiers, or the Platinum HD pack, as well as the iQ4 will automatically receive the 4K channel as part of their subscription. Current Satellite subscribers with Sport + HD, or Platinum HD, will also automatically gain the 4K channel as part of their subscription. However they will need to be sure they have our iQ4 set top box, compatible HDMI 2.0 cable and a compatible 4K TV in order to enjoy Foxtel’s 4K content. Any other connected equipment must also be compatible with Foxtel’s 4K UHD Standard.

Following the Great Race, Foxtel’s 4K channel will continue to bring subscribers a host of 4K content including The Rolling Stones: Havana Moon, documenting the classic rock band’s historic concert in Havana, Cuba; The Big Wave Project, Tim Bonython’s award-winning masterpiece on the art of big wave riding; the musical genius of Pharrell Williams: Live from Hyde Park, nature documentaries, Spy in the Wild, Planet Earth II, and Deadly Australians.

Over the next 12 months, Foxtel’s selection of unique 4K content will continue to grow, including the Australian 4K debut of live Cricket, which kicks off with the November 4, Australia v South Africa, as part of the Gillette One Day International (ODI) Series followed by every Australian men’s international ODIs and T20 matches plus every men’s Australian Test match on home soil along with a selection of BBL matches.

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