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Ultra High Definition Television (or UHDTV, 4320p, and 8K) is a digital video format proposed by NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories. It has a resolution of 16 times the number of pixels of the 1080p high-definition television standard, which brings it to roughly the detail level of IMAX.NHK advocates this video format as Super Hi-Vision.
UHDTV's main specifications:
SMPTE first released Standard 2036 for UHDTV in 2007. UHDTV was defined as having two levels called UHDTV1 (3840x2160 or 4K) and UHDTV2 (7680x4320 or 8K). Before 2011, UHDTV allowed for frame rates of 24, 25, 50, and 60 frames per second. In a ITU-R meeting during 2011, an additional frame rate was added to UHDTV of 120 frames per second.
NHK researchers had to build their own UHDTV prototype from scratch. In the system demonstrated in September 2003, they used an array of 16 HDTV recorders to capture the 30-minute-long test footage. The camera itself was built with four 2.5 inch (64 mm) CCDs, each with a resolution of only 3840 × 2048. Using two CCDs for green and one each for red and blue, they then used a spatial pixel offset method to bring it to 7680 × 4320. The system was demonstrated at Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan, the NAB 2006 and NAB 2007 conferences, Las Vegas, at IBC 2006 and IBC 2008,Amsterdam, Netherlands, and CES 2009. A review of the NAB 2006 demo was published in a Broadcast Engineering e-newsletter.
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