A Revolutionary Resolution.....8K (approx. 1920x1080x8)

With a new year comes new technology and NHK is nothing short but has created the first broadcast camera with a resolution of 8K. What is 8K? Take your standard HD TV. The resolution is the amount of pixels times an amount of pixels. In other words, the X axis or length times the Y axis or height. So 1920 x 1080 is the resolution of your HD TV. By the way remember, 1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels. Now, lets multiply that by 8 to get 8K. 1920x1080x4 = 16,588,800. Why capture in 8K? When you take 8K video and down convert it to 1080P, everything becomes much sharper. The unfortunate truth is that 8K cannot really be used in broadcast. As of right now, everything is broadcasted in 720P and is up-converted to 1080P. All a 4K or 8K TV would do is replicate pixels to create a larger display scale. Eventually I will be able to talk more about the 8K camera but the actual specifications have not been released yet. What we do know is that it has HD-SDI out for external recorders.



Adam Halperin, Nerd Herd Agent