BBC tunes in Super Hi-Vision for Olympics.

While the Olympics maybe closing this evening, the BBC has been demonstrating Super Hi-Vision (8K) images. Below is a combination of several different sources of interesting information about this topic. Firstly a video from the Reuters website:

[iframe: src=”http://www.reuters.com/resources_v2/flash/video_embed.swf?videoId=236954765&edition=BETAUS” id=”rcomVideo_236954765″] [Source: Reuters]

And of course there is information on the BBC website about this. Firstly there is a Blog Post on the topic, along with another video:

[embeded: src=”http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowScriptAccess=”always” width=”512″ height=”400″ FlashVars=”playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp00w1g4q&config_settings_showFooter=true&”] [Source: BBC Blog]

 

And then there is a bit more of an indepth look at the technical and behind the scenes side of the project on the BBC Research and Development site.

[Source: BBC Research & Development Blog]