TOMSK, Feb 4 – RIA
Tomsk. The first in Russia 8K broadcast was held in Russia by
"Orion" group of companies at CSTB Telecom & Media 2019 International
Exhibition in Moscow, encoder of the Tomsk "Elecard" company became
the "heart" of solution; as Nikolay Milovanov, the director of the
company told RIA Tomsk, they provided a module for video compressing and
transmitting.
“The International
Exhibition of Television and Telecommunications CSTB-2019 was held in Moscow,
the "Orion" group of companies organized the first test 8K broadcast
in Russia. The “heart” was the solution from the "Elecard" company:
we provided an MPEG4 encoder - a module which compresses video information
according to a certain standard, “packs” it and transmits it via satellite”, -
Milovanov said.
He clarified that now
the generally accepted image standard is UltraHD, or 4K format. And 8K - is the
size of a picture, which is four times larger than 4K. On a small screen, even
an expert is unlikely to see the difference between them - just as it is
difficult to notice the differences between 1080 (HD) and 4K (UltraHD) formats,
but between 1080 and 8K, they are already obvious.
"Plus, the
difference will be enormous when broadcasting on large (street) screens. So
far, of course, it’s not a subscriber decision - an ultra-high definition
signal cannot be received by a regular TV. For example, the one which broadcast
on CSTB cost about 400 thousand rubles, it was the first production model of
Samsung domestic TV with a resolution of 7680x4320 pixels", - says
Milovanov.
Nevertheless, he is
confident that this format will have a future: “In 2020, the Winter Olympic
Games will be held in Tokyo, and the Japanese say that they will transmit the
image, including 8K. True, few satellite operators in the world have solutions
for broadcasting the signal of such high definition, it is a serious
technological step forward. And it’s nice that Russia turned out to be ready
for it”, - the director of "Elecard" said.
According to the
"Orion" company, by 2020, analysts estimate the market of 8K TVs at
about 900 thousand units, half of which will be in China.