Europe May See 8K Tests With Tennis Matches
Sharp Electronics and France TV, which plan to demo 8K broadcasts at the French Open tennis championships that begin next month, would like to collaborate with the BBC on 8K trials, their executives told us at an IFA news conference…
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in Rome. Sharp also “would love to do tests at Wimbledon” with BBC for the tennis championships that open July 2 in London, said Sascha Lange, Sharp Europe vice president-marketing and sales. “Sky is another candidate." If "you can make good pictures with sports, you can make good pictures with anything, under any conditions," said Bernard Fontaine, France TV head-technology innovations. With tennis, the action is ideal for testing. "A small ball moving fast is a very good test. You have time to adjust during a match,” he said. Among tests will be comparing H.265 compression with uncompressed signals, and comparing 4K with 8K, said Fontaine. France TV “would like to work with NHK on this but we can’t because of TV rights issues,” he said of the world’s biggest backer of 8K. “The way France TV is funded we can do the ... tests for a month and not need to earn anything. ... What we are doing is not secret, it’s a public test, with shared information. The way NHK is funded is different and they would want to own the material and broadcast some of it by satellite.” BBC and NHK representatives didn’t comment Monday.