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K-OPT opts for Elemental in Japan’s first real-time 4K/HEVC transmission
Joseph O'Halloran | 23-10-2013
With the country set to lead 4KTV, Japan’s K-Opticom is to become the first to offer a live 4K/UltraHD video high efficiency coding (H.265/HEVC) transmission.
A subsidiary of the Kansai Electric Power Company, K-Opticom (K-OPT) provides fibre-optic services for the Kansai Region of Japan, including the prefectures of Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka. K-OPT has acted as the presenting sponsor for the Osaka Marathon for three consecutive years, providing FTTH network technologies and support for the event’s social portal and mobile device applications.
To support its real-time 4KTV video streaming of the Osaka Marathon on 27 October over its optical fibre network, K-OPT has designed a trial workflow using video processing technology from multiscreen content delivery solutions provider Elemental Technologies.
Elemental Live systems will provide HEVC encoding of 4K/59.94p material acquired from Sony PMW-F55 CineAlta 4K cameras located at the midpoint and finish line of the racecourse. Each camera will be mounted with an AJA Ki-Pro Quad, which will send source content to Elemental systems via live 3G-SDI interfaces. The telco has also developed the event’s official application, accessible via the marathon website and on iOS and Android devices.
The solution provides real-time encoding for linear pay-TV broadcast as well as live streaming to new media platforms. It is designed to integrate seamlessly into an end-to-end workflow, eliminating configuration complexity and optimising video for multiscreen viewing. Elemental video processing systems will also encode live content in real time HEVC at 4Kp30 and stream video over K-OPT optical fibre networks to an NTT DoCoMo decoder with final rendering on an 84"Sony 4K Bravia TV.
“With resolution four times that of HDTV, demand for 4K content on high quality, large-format screens is increasing,” explained Takao Fujino, president of K-Opticom. “The advanced K-OPT optical fibre network combined with the power and flexibility of Elemental’s software-based architecture is vital to meeting this demand and to enabling this unprecedented experimental transmission.”
K-OPT opts for Elemental in Japan’s first real-time 4K/HEVC transmission
Joseph O'Halloran | 23-10-2013
With the country set to lead 4KTV, Japan’s K-Opticom is to become the first to offer a live 4K/UltraHD video high efficiency coding (H.265/HEVC) transmission.
A subsidiary of the Kansai Electric Power Company, K-Opticom (K-OPT) provides fibre-optic services for the Kansai Region of Japan, including the prefectures of Kobe, Kyoto and Osaka. K-OPT has acted as the presenting sponsor for the Osaka Marathon for three consecutive years, providing FTTH network technologies and support for the event’s social portal and mobile device applications.
To support its real-time 4KTV video streaming of the Osaka Marathon on 27 October over its optical fibre network, K-OPT has designed a trial workflow using video processing technology from multiscreen content delivery solutions provider Elemental Technologies.
Elemental Live systems will provide HEVC encoding of 4K/59.94p material acquired from Sony PMW-F55 CineAlta 4K cameras located at the midpoint and finish line of the racecourse. Each camera will be mounted with an AJA Ki-Pro Quad, which will send source content to Elemental systems via live 3G-SDI interfaces. The telco has also developed the event’s official application, accessible via the marathon website and on iOS and Android devices.
The solution provides real-time encoding for linear pay-TV broadcast as well as live streaming to new media platforms. It is designed to integrate seamlessly into an end-to-end workflow, eliminating configuration complexity and optimising video for multiscreen viewing. Elemental video processing systems will also encode live content in real time HEVC at 4Kp30 and stream video over K-OPT optical fibre networks to an NTT DoCoMo decoder with final rendering on an 84"Sony 4K Bravia TV.
“With resolution four times that of HDTV, demand for 4K content on high quality, large-format screens is increasing,” explained Takao Fujino, president of K-Opticom. “The advanced K-OPT optical fibre network combined with the power and flexibility of Elemental’s software-based architecture is vital to meeting this demand and to enabling this unprecedented experimental transmission.”
