Japan already has a 4K ‘best of 4K’ channel on air and is about announce a major commitment towards 4K broadcasting.
Next week will see Japan’s broadcasting authorities announce their latest roadmap towards full 8K broadcasting, which calls for three 4K channels to be on air in 2016, as well as one 8K ‘Super Hi-Vision’ channel on satellite.
But that’s just the start. By 2018, the roadmap calls for Japan’s public broadcaster to have its own dedicated 4K channel as well as five commercial broadcasters to be transmitting a 4K channel.
NHK’s engineers and technicians will be showcasing their latest developments at IBC (September 12th-16th) while the NexTV-Forum and NHK will be screening some of its 4K programming at MIPCOM (October 13th-16th) as part of a special MIPCOM focus on 4K/Ultra-HDTV.
Read more at advance-television.com.