NHK Working To Make HDTV Obsolete

An anonymous reader writes "According to an article at EEtimes.com Japanese company NHK has successfully demonstrated a live relay of 'Super Hi-Vision' television, which is 16x 1080i resolution -- 7680 x 4320!" From the article: "NHK developed a Super Hi-Vision camera equipped with 8 megapixel CCD image sensors that can take 4k x 8k images. In the field test, it sent the two cameras to a sea park and sent baseband signals without image compression using an fiberoptic network formed by multiple network companies. The signal of the total 24 gigabits per second was divided into 161.5 Gbps HD-SDI signals to sent using the DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplex) method."

That's not the water main

[ackthpt]

That's the pipe coming into my house so I can watch Three Stooges in Super Hi-Vision.

still can't get the EPL matches I want though, dammit

The picture is great...

[Chocolate Teapot]

"Super Hi-Vision has huge information and was difficult to transmit. Using 16 waves on optic fiber, we succeeded a live relay over a long distance."

...but the sound is still a little disjointed.

Random thought

[amliebsch]

"The signal of the total 24 gigabits per second was divided into 161.5 Gbps HD-SDI signals to sent using the DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplex) method."

What color ray is that disc going to need? I'm guessing puce.

But...But...But..

[Anonymous Coward]

This is HDTV! It's got better resolution than real life.

Re:A bit more info and obvious first application

[kai.chan]

I feel a bit inadaquate as my halloween webcam (goes offline Saturday night) only has 337,920 pixels (704x480) - I guess size matters, eh? ;-)

I've been to your site before -- great job, btw. Although your server is quite impressive, I want to see a live-feed of a 7680x4320 video @ 60-Hz showing us the server room (perferrably wired so that the visitors can cut the power of the cooling on demand) while it is being Slashdotted.

Re:A bit more info and obvious first application

[yoyhed]

As with many new technologies, the p0rn industry will probably be the first to deploy this 33,177,600 pixel technology.

I might have to disagree. The recent "Weapons of Ass Destruction" was said to be cutting-edge--but it appeared to have been filmed with a 20 dollar webcam, and it was on a VHS in SLP mode!

my halloween webcam (goes offline Saturday night) only has 337,920 pixels (704x480)

If I watched that tape with this new technology, each testicle could take up as many pixels as your webcam!

You can watch it on your...

[inkdesign]

6.8ghz Laptop [slashdot.org]

Re:Random thought

[Anonymous Coward]

The 1 terabyte holographic discs they've been promising us for years now, obviously.

This is great news!

[Max Nugget]

They seem to have forgotten to write a press release to go with this big story so I wrote it for them:

This is great news for ____! Eventually it will improve ____ for all consumers but initially it will be used in the ____ industry to improve ____. Sony, Samsung, and Toshiba have all announced they will be introducing their own versions, which will be available in 21__ and are eventually expected to saturate the market at prices as low as $...,...,... Said one executive, "We're incredibly excited about this. We have invested $...,...,...,...,... in this project and are very confident it will succeed and dominate the ____ market. The new technology will first be experienced by consumers in selected ____ during a special ____-enhanced presentation of Star Wars: Episode OMG.

Have fun filling in those blanks. I sure couldn't.

Re:A bit more info and obvious first application

[Jozer99]

Not only do you see pores on the pitchers face, but the bacteria in those pores. Next week: SUHDTV (Super Ungodly High Definition TV), so you can see cell processes in the pitcher's eyebrow cells.

That's not TV....

[catdevnull]

That's not TV, that's a freakin' hologram.

Warp speed, Mr. Sulu--and don't look at me like that...I was really drunk and the tribbles had me confused.