Satellite 2016: “All main operators working with 4K” talks about directv and new 4k coming

[bluegras]

Panellists at the Satellite 2016 trade event in Washington last week confirmed their faith in 4K/Ultra HD, but some of them also admitted that 8K transmission could be closer than most people think.

Richard Bullock (strategic project manager at Ericsson) told delegates that enquiries from broadcasters had quietened down over the past year since the Brazil World Cup “and we are waiting for the next wave of enthusiasm to come back and hit us” which he said could happen over the next year.

in the article talks about directv and 4k coming real soon.

http://advanced-television.com/2016/03/14/satellite-2016-all-main-operators-working-with-4k/

 

[maestro7]

Another article that might have been referenced on this forum mentioned that DirecTV was saying that one hour of 4K content equates to approximately 500GB of storage (uncompressed). Therefore, since they were saying that the HR54 (4K-enabled Genie) allegedly has 1TB space, one can clearly see that we're talking an order of magnitude difference between HD and 4K.

While it's great that 4K is coming along, notice how gingerly folks are treating this. Even CBS -- with the resources the corporation has -- is only deploying a handful of 4K-enabled cameras on the course, and even DirecTV is having to provision their birds in the sky to be able to take care of the bandwidth requirements (uncompressed or otherwise). And then they're mentioning about 8K (which is at least a doubling of bandwidth requirements of 4K). I think that's more of a marketing strategy -- to name-drop -- than anything; it's going to be a few years before 4K even gets stabilized to begin with.

I could be wrong on this, but I think we're much more likely to see 5G LTE networks operational and -- maybe -- that promised "by 2020" hybrid self-driving car commercially available (and certainly drone deliveries and the like) before 4K gets rolled out as the new standard, essentially supplanting HD.

 

[Drucifer]

Will 8K be a simple upgrade or will it require ground up new equipment?

 

[Jimbo]

Will 8K be a simple upgrade or will it require ground up new equipment?

I would guess that it will be much like the current equipment upgrades needed.
New Encoders at the very least, unless there are encoders coming out that will cover both 4 and 8k already (thinking ahead)

 

[alnielsen]

We will have flying cars before 8K.

 

[Jimbo]

We will have flying cars before 8K.

Yup and the Jestons car is here already too as mentioned back in the day.