Super Hi-Vision, also known as SHV, Ultra HDTV, 8K, and simply 4320p, is the future of high-def video. With a whopping 16 times more pixels than even 1080p, SHV is dangerously sharp, with lenses and TVs having to be freshly invented to do it justice. The tech is likely a decade away from wide adoption (and even then, probably not in the States), but progress is being made swiftly: The BBC and Japan’s NHK teamed up this week for the first SHV broadcast to be made over the Internet, a performance by British band The Charlatans.
SHV, proposed as the next standard by the BBC, NHK, and Italy’s RAI, is highly experimental–when it was demonstrated back in 2003, it used 16 separate HDTV cameras to capture the demo video. These days, there are three cameras, all developed by NHK, that can handle the video’s insane 7680 x 4320 resolution, but for this broadcast, the NHK had to create a customized lens and a 103-inch plasma screen for viewers. Even that screen doesn’t quite have the pixel density to display the video properly.
SHV won’t show up in the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
Found by Cinàedh.
TV is dead. Nobody is making decent content for it anymore. If you want information and entertainment, books and radio is the future.
#21,
iNTER..
Content IS being made.
But,
Figure that 4-6 corps own 100% of all of the broadcasters.
IF’ a private company MAKEs something, they submit it to the CORP or BUY TIME to show it.
YOU PAY BIG MONEY, or the corp BUYS it from you.
Its SHOWN only on the channels THEY WISH..
If its worth MONEY, they show it on SAT/CABLE..NOT broadcast TV.
NOW,
If you are a programmer, and have some ambition…MAKE a program for the net that works LIKE a radio.. 1 BROADCAST over a large area and Anyone can see it..
Insted of the Current Internet, where 1000 people have to LOG to a site, and watch 1 server FIGHT to keep up, while you watch TV.
Or, lets FAIL this..
Insted, lets make a WIRELESS broadcast, 1 way. IF it glitches on your side..NOT MY PROBLEM..Just like REAL TV.
#22 ECA,
I like the way you are thinking, but getting the current internet to act like a broadcast network is a tough one. At multiple levels it’s been designed as a point-to-point network – from the physical links between routers to IP and the streaming mechanisms sitting on top.
Multicast capable networks do exist, but I’ve never seen anything that wasn’t either experimental or contained within a private corporation’s network.
My networking is very rusty though and you got me wondering.
Personally I like the idea of wireless ‘broadcast’ network – we do have wifi but this is very limited in terms of bandwidth and power. Like water and air, the electromagnetic spectrum is owned by fat corporations and malignant governments. The few crumbs they give us is not enough to transmit over long distances.
Anyway, sorry for my rambling and thanks for your post.
#23…
WOW..
someone gets it.
SHV won’t show up in the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
Or any other 3rd world country.
(Do I always have to add the obligatory political snark here?
I’m guessing the TVs that could view this use lots of power. They should be banned, along with HDTVs above a certain size.
Since it hasn’t been mentioned, I will: This super-hi-def stuff is a way to differentiate movie theaters from home hi-def setups and could keep them financially viable for many years.
#27
So would adapting Laser projection..and 3 color Laser would be CHEAPER.
Households would never have this… we might go 4K, but that’ll be it. As it’s been said here in comments, HD is just about enough, and the bandwidth needed to stream it will be obscene (not to mention the power requirements to light up all those pixels).
BUT there are applications for something that high resolution, digital cinema, digital IMAX, film production definitely, you always want to work in higher resolution than it’s being shown in for quality’s sake.