NHK launches 4K, 8K high-definition test broadcasting
NHK President Katsuto Momii (L) presses the button to start 4K and 8K super high-definition test broadcasting on BS satellite channels at a commencement ceremony on Aug. 1, 2016, at a broadcasting center in Shibuya, Tokyo. Japan's public broadcaster NHK, officially known as Japan Broadcasting Corp., aims to verify the technology and popularize it in time for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics. Testing of 8K broadcasting, which is making its world debut, includes broadcasting of the opening ceremony and some games of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics starting Aug. 5. (Kyodo)
==Kyodo
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- 2016/8/01 11:21:37
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