Japanese Send 7680 x 4320 Pixel HD Signal Via Satellite, Could Be In Our Homes Within 10 Years

Just last year experts thought the transmission of such massive bandwidth signals were 15-20 years away, but Japanese broadcaster NHK recently was able to transmit 7680 x 4320 pixel, 33 megapixel frames via H.264 compression and 16 Kyrion encoders. Put it this way, this video if uncompressed, would require 200GB of bandwidth for just one minute of video. A whopping 10TB per hour!

While this amazing feat drastically reduces the time it'll take to get such high quality picture into our homes, the amount of computing power required to achieve this level of compression still needs to be drastically reduced. Think set-top box reduced. But while 1 year ago, we thought it would take 15-20 years to achieve this, NHK figures it'll only be 10-15 years until we're watching 7680 x 4320 pixel ultra-HD resolution on our home theater TV's. That level of picture quality is truly frightening!

Via Rapid TV News

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