Source: Beijing Daily
Original title: Short track speed skating, figure skating full 8K live broadcast technology Winter Olympics to help China’s ultra-high-definition video industry 8K zero breakthrough
The events of the Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing. In the Capital Gymnasium, the world’s first 8K+5G OB van will broadcast the short track speed skating and figure skating events to the world through the whole 8K live broadcast. It was learned from the Ultra HD Video (Beijing) Production Technology Collaboration Center located in Haidian District that the Beijing Winter Olympics used 8K technology to live broadcast sports events on a large scale for the first time in the world, creating the highest 8K broadcast of any major sports event in the world. The live broadcast is over 80 hours long.
In the Tiangong Building of the University of Science and Technology on the side of Xueyuan Road, there is a name at the entrance of the Ultra HD Video (Beijing) Production Technology Collaboration Center, an industrial collaboration service platform jointly built by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Beijing Municipality – Beijing Science and Technology Winter Olympics 8K Content Display Monitoring (command) center.
According to reports, the world’s first 5G+8K full-service OB van independently designed and integrated by the Collaboration Center for the Beijing Winter Olympics entered the Winter Olympics for the first time, deployed in the Capital Gymnasium, and assembled the best technical support service team. Provide a full range of equipment and technical support services, and cooperate with the Central Radio and Television Station to broadcast the full 8K live broadcast of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating and figure skating events. At the same time, the Collaboration Center also cooperated with China Central Radio and Television Station to jointly build a broadcast system at the Beijing National Speed Skating Stadium and jointly complete the production of 8K public signals for the Winter Olympics speed skating events.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the world’s first large-scale live broadcast of sports events using 8K technology. The project implementation period is from mid-January 2022 to mid-March 2022, with a total of more than 45 days. The actual live broadcast of the event will be broadcast for a total of 17 consecutive days from February 4 to February 20, 2022, with regarding 80 live broadcasts.
Haidian District supports the Ultra HD Video (Beijing) Production Technology Collaboration Center to cooperate with more than 20 companies including Lenovo, CDV, Digital Video, Leyard, Zhuoyao, Chunzhong Technology, etc. Run or even partially lead, build the world’s leading ultra-high-definition video 8K industry platform, and achieve a breakthrough in 8K zero in China’s ultra-high-definition video industry. At present, the platform design integrates the world’s leading 5G+8K OB van, and the localization rate of complete vehicle equipment has reached 20%, which has promoted the industrialization and large-scale development of key upstream and downstream technologies and links in the industrial chain such as chips, storage, transmission, and display. The world’s first set, the country’s first set and domestic replacement of more than 20 technologies have been formed.
Haidian District has also carried out ultra-high-definition demonstration applications, playing the leading and pivotal role of the collaboration center, and taking the lead in the world to carry out ultra-high-definition video demonstration applications around major political events, sports events, cultural and entertainment performances, publicity displays and other types of scenarios. Successfully completed the 2019 World Horticultural Expo, the 2019 Basketball World Cup, the 2020 Service Trade Fair, the 2020 14th Migu Hui Music Festival, the 2021 National Grand Theater “New Year’s Concert”, and the 2021 Xinhua News Agency’s two sessions “8K+5G+ More than 30 8K demonstration applications such as “New Cube Studio”, with a total of over 300 hours of 8K material.
At the same time, Haidian District actively expands the application of ultra-high definition in medical and health, security monitoring and other industries, and develops the research and development of video acquisition and processing systems for medical surgical microscopes to achieve ultra-high-definition; cooperates with Gehua Cable to carry out 8K real-time monitoring projects. 8K surveillance cameras are installed in the Olympic Tower for 24-hour slow live broadcast, etc. (Sun Ying)