Super Hi-Vision Footage Sent Over the Internet from U.K. to Japan
Some might consider a concert by The Charlatans to be a wasteful way to showcase cutting-edge technology. Not Japanese public broadcaster NHK, though, which will be filming the British alt rockers for the first public demonstration of its new Super Hi-Vision broadcast system Wednesday. This new "super HD" specification pumps out images at a staggering 7680-by-4320 pixels. That's 16-times the ...
In the consumer electronics world, all eyes are focused on the upcoming broadcast switch to a digital signal coming early next year. Why, then, is Japan's NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratory working so hard to develop the next video format, a "super" high definition format called Super Hi-Vision? Isn't it enough that we're all going to be viewing programming of startling video quality ...








