TOKYO—When the 2021 Tokyo Olympics Opening Ceremony begins, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK will achieve a major milestone on its roadmap for 8K UHDTV as it presents the international spectacle to ...
Tokyo 2020 was always supposed to be about broadcasting in 8K. It’s there but it’s been overtaken by other things. Back in 2008, while the world was watching the Beijing Olympics, Japanese broadcaster ...
The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is full of firsts—first Olympics with virtually no fans in the stands, first time the year on all the signage does not match the year it’s actually taking ...
SAN FRANCISCO—Digital video technology provider Bitmovin has announced that Globo in Brazil used its encoding technology to deliver 8K streams from the Tokyo Olympics. Using Bitmovin, Globo debuted ...
Japan’s NHK was not the only broadcaster to test 8K during Tokyo 2020, Brazil’s Globo also trialled 8K streams via its GloboPlay app on Samsung TV sets. Both the Opening and Closing ceremonies as well ...
As broadcasters are trying to transition over to 4K Ultra HD, some networks are already looking at the next phase of high definition television. Despite 4K content barely being picked up, broadcasters ...
8K 60FPS HDR streams aren't easy, with the encoding servers that Intel provided were powered by 4 x Xeon 8380H processors -- each of these CPUs has 28 cores and 56 threads. Each individual encoding ...
With around one and a half years to go until the Tokyo Olympics, Japanese broadcaster NHK is readying for what will inevitably be a watershed point for 8K. But the cameras that will be used, ...