If full HD resolution isn’t enough for you, then how about 16 times the resolution of full HD? Japan’s national public broadcasting organization NHK has been working on so-called Ultra HD technology for years, and now it’s ready for the first big test in public.
NHK is planning public screenings of some events at the London Olympics next year in Ultra HD resolution (7,680×4,320 pixels) – not… → Read More
The Super Hi-Vision TV Japanese national TV broadcaster NHK and Sharp recently showed isn’t the only impressive piece of technology NHK is working on. Take their Super Hi-Vision camera, for example, which boasts a 33-megapixel image sensor. → Read More
Can you imagine owning a TV with 16 times the resolution of HDTV (or, in other words, about the same resolution as IMAX)? That’s 7,680×4,320 pixels, and today Sharp (in cooperation with Japanese national TV broadcaster NHK) showed a 85-inch LCD TV boasting that spec, also known as Ultra HDTV or Super Hi-Vision. → Read More
Japanese telecommunications powerhouse NTT and public broadcaster NHK have been working on the so-called Super Hi-Vision standard for years, and now the companies announced [JP] they succeeded in testing international transmission of video in this format over the Internet. → Read More
NHK isn’t just Japan’s national TV broadcaster, but it’s also developing some pretty cool technology on its own. One example is a “millimeter-wave TV camera”, which takes images of objects (or people, for that matter) by using radio waves instead of visible light. The camera makes it possible to see objects “hidden” behind fog or plywood, for example, in the images. → Read More
If you ever thought full HD delivers pictures in awesome resolution (1,920×1080), think again. Because Japanese national TV broadcaster NHK is working on a camera and display system that boasts 16 times the resolution of full HD, namely 7,680×4,320 pixels. In other words, the format makes it possible to produce pictures four times as wide and four times as high as full HD. → Read More
Japan’s national TV station NHK and technology giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (better know as NTT) have developed a technology allowing users to interrupt watching online content on one device and resume the playback later on a different device. → Read More
Japanese national TV broadcaster NHK demonstrated an amazing projection system at the CommunicAsia, a Tech expo currently taking place in Singapore. NHK used 2 Lcos projectors (8,000 lumens) and a screen measuring 6.6 x 3.7 meters to demonstrate their 33 megapixel, 8K video projection technology (7,680 x 4,320 pixels). The ultra-high-definition format produces pictures four times as wide and four… → Read More
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