NHK brings forward Ultra-HD start date
Japan’s public broadcaster is targeting to start test transmissions of its advanced Ultra-HDTV format by 2016, some four years earlier than originally planned.
NHK’s director general for engineering, Dr Keiichi Kubota, delivered the news at a London demonstration of Super-HDTV held at London’s Olympic Park.
NHK, along with the BBC and other partners, are using the 2012 Olympics to capture and transmit test footage to viewers at the park and at other UK locations as well as to Tokyo and the USA.
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