It's pretty clear to me that, like the Olympics or the World Cup, the Superbowl is always going to be a test-bed for new technologies. Next year in Tokyo, NHK will be broadcasting in 8K, and have recently launched an 8K channel (they got Warners to rescan 2001 in 8K for their launch).
Some of these technologies will stick - others will go in an expensive dustbin alongside 3D TV. See also 360 degree cameras of dubious value. And is anyone still using "Eyevision" - aka bullet time from The Matrix? (To answer my own question, there are techniques with 3D modelling that allow you to switch from one camera angle to another that these days don't need about 100 in between cameras to get the effect). Since each network only gets the Super Bowl once every four years, they obviously want to make the most of it technically, and so throwing in a few 8K cameras is worth doing. But it's worth noting that not every camera is in 4K either. I know that in the UK, the two broadcasters who regularly use 4K for Premier League football (Sky and BT), only do some games, and don't have as many camera angles - or they have to upscale HD for some shots. The same was true for 4K at the World Cup last summer - many fewer camera positions. For what it's worth, I tend to think that investing in a decent sound system is the best way to up the quality and really envelop you, rather than work out if you can even get a 100" TV into your home! Adam On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:14 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: > just a ramble..... But Tom suggested CBS using 8K for archival purposes. > I'm sure they are using them to 'keep up with the curve and figure out how > to use them and the associated data they produce'. > > I was having a work discussion on Friday night with one of our technology > managers. I work at an engineering company and we design and manage the > construction of mineral processing facilities, hydroelectric plants, and > other such things. Engineering usually takes 2-3 years and construction > and commissioning takes 5 years (partly overlapping the engineering). At > the end of commissioning when we 'handover' the facility to the owner, we > also hand over the engineering data (drawings, specification documents, and > manuals in the 'old' days, but now models and other electronic data). It > is growing to a crapload of data this days. > > I find this SD/HD/UHD/4k/8k topic to be very interesting and parallel. > Someone (with the deep pockets) has to use the bleeding-edge technology to > capture the data and store it the best they can. BBC obviously tried to > learn about streaming it as well at 4k -- a great exercise to learn. who > knows what video formats will 'rule' in 5 years. Do we all remember > DIVX? my DVD player does. > > other parallel topics: financial systems programmed in COBOL. Science > software programmed in FORTRAN. 1990/2000 stuff in Java. > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 6:43 PM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 7:19 AM Doug Eastick <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Thanks Adam. That's a great BBC article. >>> >> >> Going back to the original post, CBS could well be using 8K cameras for >> archival purposes. Obviously all Super Bowls from the pre-HD era are in SD >> and there is no format for better resolution. Maybe 8K will be the industry >> standard and CBS will be able to stream a recording of the game in that >> format. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
