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NHK plans HDTV broadcast from the moon later this year

Filed in archive Announcements on April 24, 2007

I was unable to attend the NAB this year, but one story caught my eye - the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) announced plans to broadcast high-definition video from the moon!

Hirokazu Nishiyama, the managing director of the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation NHK, was giving a speech about the company's Ultra-HDTV technology.
"We believe that Ultra-HDTV is the medium that will transform tele-vision to tele-sense," he said. "Ultra-HDTV will open a door to a new world of broadcasting and become an essential medium of the future."

For all the readers who thrive on pushing the technical envelope, Ultra-HDTV is a 32 megapixel Super Hi-Vision system that has a resolution of 7680x4320 - 16 times that of the best high-definition television transmissions today. It also features 22.2 channel surround sound.

For the rest of us, we only pay attention when the story has a hook. Well, Hirokazu came prepared.

NHK plans HDTV broadcast from the moon later this year

Briefly, the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE is scheduled to launch this summer. It will orbit the moon for a year. HHK will have telephoto and wide-angle high-definition color cameras, each with three 2.2M pixel sensors onboard. No doubt this will supply spectacular shots of the earth rising over the moon.

A minute of high-definition video will be compressed, stored and transmitted to the earth in a 20-minute transmission.


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