<Tr> <Td> FullHD+ </Td> <Td> 2160 × 1080 </Td> <Td> 18: 9 </Td> </Tr> <P> In the United States, 1080p over-the - air are currently being broadcast experimentally using ATSC 3.0 on NBC Affiliate WRAL - TV in North Carolina, with select stations in the US announcing that there will be new ATSC 3.0 technology that will be transmitted with 1080p Broadcast television, such as Fox Affiliate WJW - TV in Cleveland . All other broadcast television stations do not broadcast at 1080p as ATSC 3.0 is currently in experimentation and in test trials while all major broadcast networks use either 720p60 or 1080i60 encoded with MPEG - 2 . There is no word when any of the major networks (even though NBC currently has an Affiliate broadcasting at 1080p experimentally) will consider airing at 1080p in the foreseeable future . However, satellite services (e.g., DirecTV, XstreamHD and Dish Network) utilize the 1080p / 24 - 30 format with MPEG - 4 AVC / H. 264 encoding for pay - per - view movies that are downloaded in advance via satellite or on - demand via broadband . At this time, no pay service channel such as USA, HDNET, etc. nor premium movie channel such as HBO, etc., stream their services live to their distributors (MVPD) in this format because many MVPDs, especially DBS and cable, do not have sufficient bandwidth to provide the format streaming live to their subscribers without negatively impacting their current services . </P> <P> For material that originates from a progressive scanned 24 frame / s source (such as film), MPEG - 2 lets the video be coded as 1080p24, irrespective of the final output format . These progressively - coded frames are tagged with metadata (literally, fields of the PICTURE header) instructing a decoder how to perform a 3: 2 pulldown to interlace them . While the formal output of the MPEG - 2 decoding process from such stations is 1080i60, the actual content is coded as 1080p24 and can be viewed as such (using a process known as inverse telecine) since no information is lost even when the broadcaster performs the 3: 2 pulldown . </P> <P> In June 2016, Germany commenced terrestrial broadcasts of eight 1080p50 high - definition channels, using DVB - T2 protocol with HEVC encoding; a total of 40 channels will be available by March 2017 . </P>

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