The Low Carbon TV (LoCaT) project set benchmarks in early 2022 with research claiming perhaps unsurprisingly that DTT is a significantly less power-hungry content delivery mechanism than OTT video and IPTV networks. Faultline had expected broadcasters to use this data as a sustainability stick with which to beat IP video competitors and the telcos nibbling at spectrum, yet two years whizzed by with relative silence on LoCaT – until this week when an ambitious UHD roll-out plan was declared by France Télévisions. The 2024 Paris Olympics is the pièce de resistance for the broadcaster’s free-to-air (FTA) UHD plans, but the forthcoming Summer Olympics Games are not where the UHD buck starts, or finishes. France Télévisions has announced that its France…