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Digital TV News · 02-10-10, 02:00 PM

The BBC has come up with a broadcasting first, streaming Super HD footage – a technology developed by Japanese broadcaster NHK – of a Charlatans gig from the UK to fans in Japan.The so-called Super Hi-Vision picture makes HD look like a poor cousin in comparison, coming with a resolution of 7680 x 4320 – [...]

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TheCoder · 02-10-10, 06:12 PM

Isn't it strange that the BBC should be using British licence payers money to be sending this to fans in Japan ?????

Surely they should of supplied a few uk testers with the required equipment and then broadcast it to those instead. Wouldn't that of made a much more newsworthy item (at least in the UK).

lincsat · 02-10-10, 11:35 PM

Saw a report on "Click", they didn't even have a monitor of sufficient resolution in the control room. The Camera operator was Japanese, suggesting that NHK brought the equipment and personnel from Japan, maybe NHK even paid for the trial. They mentioned using 300Mbit of internet bandwidth to stream the trial, so now you know why any browsing of sites, especially in Asia was slow that day

cupid stunt · 03-10-10, 09:10 AM

Surely you would only see a difference on larger tv's say 50" upwards ?

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Digital TV News Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1,397 Thanks: 0 Thanked 8 Times in 8 Posts	BBC makes historic Super HD broadcast The BBC has come up with a broadcasting first, streaming Super HD footage – a technology developed by Japanese broadcaster NHK – of a Charlatans gig from the UK to fans in Japan.The so-called Super Hi-Vision picture makes HD look like a poor cousin in comparison, coming with a resolution of 7680 x 4320 – [...] More: BBC makes historic Super HD broadcast

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TheCoder Underground Crew Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Undrground Posts: 2,149 Thanks: 15 Thanked 1,691 Times in 933 Posts	Re: BBC makes historic Super HD broadcast Isn't it strange that the BBC should be using British licence payers money to be sending this to fans in Japan ????? Surely they should of supplied a few uk testers with the required equipment and then broadcast it to those instead. Wouldn't that of made a much more newsworthy item (at least in the UK).

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