Broadcasters Ponder Industry Future at IBC2013

Media companies acknowledge inevitability of 4K

The match between New Gloucester and Saracens (which Sarecens won), was shown in the Ericsson, Sony and Intelsat booths on a variety of UHD displays, including a JVC seven-foot 4K UHDTV and a Sony 6-meter projection setup. U.K. broadcaster BT sent signals from three Sony F55 4K cameras covering the match, to a vision mixer, which were then sent to Ericsson AVP2000 encoders and RX8200 advance modular receivers. After encoding, the signal was transmitted as a 100 Mbps video from BT’s Global Media Network to Intelsat’s Point of Presence in London, then hopped to the IntelsatOne terrestrial network to Intelsat’s teleport in Germany, where it was uplinked to Intelsat’s Thor6 bird and delivered to a 2.4 m dish on the top of the RAI Convention Center. The result was picture of stunning clarity that stopped booth visitors in their tracks -
See more at: http://www.tvtechnology.com/news/0110/broadca...4fD65.dpuf
.......a good read

Product Spotlights
http://www.tvtechnology.com/section/product-spotlights/134
.....good to see what's happening