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Watching the Winter Olympics, 8K Ultra HD is coming

Standing here, you can't see any pixel blocks, only full of detail.

On the 50-centimeter screen behind the staff, the 8K ultra-high-definition documentary "Forbidden City" is playing, and the rubble reliefs in the film are close at hand, as if within reach.

Watching the Winter Olympics, 8K Ultra HD is coming

4 times more than 4K, 16 times more than HD!

According to the staff, today's 8K TV program picture resolution is as high as 7680X4320, with the help of HDR technology and multi-channel surround sound, 8K ultra-high definition technology can bring viewers a more realistic, shocking, more immersive audiovisual enjoyment.

This immersive 8K Ultra HD technology will also be applied to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, bringing an immersive experience to the audience.

"Visit" the scene to see the Winter Olympics

As an important part of the Winter Olympics of science and technology, on December 31, 2021, the Beijing Radio and Television Station's Winter Olympics Documentary 8K Ultra HD Test Channel was officially launched.

The launch of the 8K Ultra HD Pilot Channel provided technical support for comprehensive documentary coverage of the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. Especially in the case of the epidemic affecting the on-site viewing, it can meet the requirements of the audience's online viewing with high standards.

Watching the Winter Olympics, 8K Ultra HD is coming

It is understood that the program signal of the 8K ultra-high-definition test channel is accessing ordinary families through channels such as Gehua Cable and IPTV, and home users with 8K ultra-high-definition TV are expected to watch the ultra-high-definition live broadcast of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

During the Winter Olympic Games, Beijing Radio and Television Station will also promote the construction of 8K ultra-high-definition centralized control platform, urban outdoor 8K large screen, 8K demonstration community, with more than ten 8K ultra-high-definition outdoor large screens in Beijing's important scenic spots, institutions and universities landing, during the Winter Olympics, citizens can "personally visit" the Winter Olympics anytime and anywhere to cheer for the Chinese team.

The "small screen" can also be clearer

"The phone I demonstrated is actually a low-end model on the market, but it is enough to run our 8K APP", the staff introduced, while dragging two fingers, for the audience to zoom in on the 8K ultra-high-definition image of Feng Chengsu's version of "Lanting Collection", "You can watch the video like a photo, and you will not miss a detail." ”

Watching the Winter Olympics, 8K Ultra HD is coming

The 5G+8K HD video mobile app "Jing8", which will be launched at the end of January 2022, integrates the exclusive 8K ultra-high-definition resources produced in Hainan and the world's first video player that supports 8K interactive experience.

After the app is launched, it will support users to watch live broadcasts and 4K/8K boutique programs of the 8K Ultra HD Experimental Channel of Beijing Radio and Television Station. When watching 8K Ultra HD video, users can not only achieve up to 200% screen zoom, experience visual effects such as naked-eye 3D, but also experience the audiovisual feast brought by 8K Ultra HD technology through video projection.

Here it comes! 8K media new ecology

Located in the Guomao Office Area of Beijing Radio and Television Station, the 8K Ultra HD Production and Broadcasting Center is the "central kitchen" of the first 8K ultra-high definition test channel in China.

In the past year, the three main tasks of core system construction, content production reserve and 8K APP research and development of 8K projects have been completed here.

In April 2021, Beijing Radio and Television Station set up a special class for the 8K project to fully promote the preparation of the 8K ultra-high-definition test channel for the Winter Olympics. After nearly a year of efforts, more than 20 domestic independent knowledge achievements have been formed, more than 50 hours of 8K boutique programs have been produced, more than 100 hours of 8K materials have been accumulated, and the preparation and broadcasting of the pilot channel have been successfully completed.

Watching the Winter Olympics, 8K Ultra HD is coming

The future channel will take the broadcast of ultra-high-definition events of the Winter Olympics as an opportunity to continue to carry out research and application of ultra-high-definition and high-tech video new technologies, link urban outdoor large screens, demonstration community medium screens and personal terminal small screens to achieve cross-screen integration and dissemination in different scenarios; strive to achieve large-scale production capacity of 8K programs, focusing on natural and humanistic documentary themes, providing users with high-quality audio-visual content; driving the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industry, and building a new 8K media ecology that integrates content, platform, channels and services.

(Guangming Daily all-media reporter Dong Cheng, correspondent Hou Xudong)

Source: Guangming Daily all-media reporter Dong Cheng correspondent Hou Xudong

Editor-in-charge: Wang Yuanfang

Editor: Zhang Yongqun

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