Eutelsat Communications launched two new Fashion TV Ultra HD channels at its Hotbird video neighbourhood. Fashion TV's new Ultra HD channel, FTV UHD, and the 4K TV channel Travelxp 4K concluded multi-year contracts with Eutelsat to leverage Hotbird's penetration into cable and IPTV networks across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. FTV UHD debuted on Hotbird on 23 December, while Travelxp 4K starts broadcasting from January. Both channels selected HEVC encoding with 10bits of colour depth (one billion colours), at 50 frames per second.