Select 4K AFL games

AFL games will be broadcast in 4K ultra high definition for the first time next season, with Foxtel CEO Patrick Delany declaring that the new format will be used for select games as the pay TV broadcaster prepares to launch a “Netflix of sport’’ offering.

Mr Delany, speaking at the Telstra Vantage conference in Melbourne, said that some, but not all games will be broadcast each weekend in 2019 at 20times the resolution of standard definition.

“Cricket is easy to do ... It’s expensive, but easy,” he said. “There aren’t a lot of 4K cameras in Australia. But there are enough to do one game (per weekend). Once we move into the regular season of AFL and the NRL, we’ll do it for selected games and we’ll build it up and get more cameras hopefully.”