Live 8K transmission at French Open
Paint still wet on demos, so need some imagination, but wow-effect is there, for 8K, tiling and VR!
France TV has used the French Open tennis championship to experiment with new TV technology for many years. It was already here, over fifteen years ago, that the first French glass-to-glass live HD TV transmissions happened and then, less than a decade later, the first live sports 4K transmission.
This year, France TV Labs, kindly extended an invitation to me to have a look at their first #8K experimental coverage and many other innovations.
Thierry Fautier has already described the technical setup here, including some of the 5G mobile network aspects so that I won’t go through that again.
In a previous post, I laid out 8 reasons why 8K will have an impact and seeing it in live-action just reinforced my view. The short video I made on my iPhone of an 8K screen and published almost live, with no editing, was an instant hit on Twitter, with over 3k views in just a day. It illustrates the level of detail available in an 8K image. When you are up close to the screen, the experience is like no other. You have to choose which part of the image to look at.
