The Japanese television station Fuji TV began broadcasting online today programs in 4K or Ultra High Definition (UHD for its acronym in English), becoming the first private channel in Japan to broadcast in this format.
The company launched the service with a documentary about abandoned Hashima Island in Nagasaki province (southwest), and a program on the illumination of Tokyo.
The station also plans to start a television broadcast produced jointly with China, the local agency Kyodo said.
The programs can be viewed through the “streaming” platform (without download) payment chain on computers with compatible monitors 4K technology, but not in smartphones, said the same source.
The technology of ultra high definition or 4K quadruples the number of pixels HD screen, so that the resolution is four times higher than conventional HD or high definition.
In June last year, Japan has already launched the channel 4K Channel, operated by the company NexTV -F, a project that has the support of the Japanese Government and in which free content produced by other stations in the group to test the format in order to generalize commercial use in 2016 are issued.
Several companies Japanese are already working on developing the technology to broadcast quality images with 8K giant screens ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Toshiba is developing software compression low cost for transmission real-time video in 8K, while the telecommunications giant NTT is developing a 8K software that speeds data processing without sacrificing image quality.
An example of Ultra HD TV:
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