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Hi all,
found this in the NY Times today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/business/26video.html
September 26, 2005
Like High-Def? Here Comes the Next Level
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25 - Scientists and engineers in the United States
and Japan plan to test the world's highest-resolution
videoconferencing system on Monday evening over a 9,000-mile optical
network linking the University of California, San Diego, with Keio
University in Tokyo.
The demonstration will allow those attending the iGrid 2005
scientific computing conference to watch an exchange between Yuichiro
Anzai, the president of Keio, and Marye Anne Fox, the chancellor of
the San Diego campus, on a theater display with four times the image
resolution of today's HDTV technology.
The technology will use American and Japanese fiber networks that
stretch from Tokyo to Chicago, and the data will be relayed to San
Diego via an optical network connection in Seattle at speeds of a
billion bits per second.
The high-speed network will feed the data to a state-of-the-art Sony
video projector that displays so-called 4K digital video, with images
that are about 4,000 pixels across. When it is uncompressed at the
receiving end, the video stream contains more than six billion bits
per second.
Hollywood is on the verge of introducing an earlier generation of 2K
digital video to theaters in the United States and Japan. But some in
the industry believe that the 4K standard, which is still in the
prototype stage, will be necessary to give theater viewers a
significantly different experience from 35-millimeter film, today's
standard cinema format, and to compete with HDTV screens in homes.
"What we're showing here is really important for Hollywood," said
Laurin Herr, president of Pacific Interface, a technology consulting
company based in Oakland, Calif., that is engineering the
demonstration. "These same networks can be used to distribute other
digital stuff such as live events, live concerts and sports."
The 4K demonstration is also important for film production and
scientific work, Mr. Herr said, because studios increasingly shoot on
one side of the world and edit and produce the film on the other.
"Production has always been a team effort, but now the talent will be
spread around the globe," he said.
Optical networks and high-resolution displays are also becoming
mainstays of modern science. Scientific research increasingly
involves the use of vast digital files, and the optical digital
infrastructure that is emerging can be used to build computerized
scientific instruments that essentially straddle the globe.
The iGrid 2005 event will feature an array of scientific
visualization demonstrations, ranging from HDTV images from the
depths of the ocean to the distribution of cosmic-ray data from Tibet.
Haris I. Amin, MD
Ocean County Retina, PC
Toms River, NJ
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Hi all,
found this in the NY Times today:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/26/business/26video.html
September 26, 2005
Like High-Def? Here Comes the Next Level
By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 25 - Scientists and engineers in the United States
and Japan plan to test the world's highest-resolution
videoconferencing system on Monday evening over a 9,000-mile optical
network linking the University of California, San Diego, with Keio
University in Tokyo.
The demonstration will allow those attending the iGrid 2005
scientific computing conference to watch an exchange between Yuichiro
Anzai, the president of Keio, and Marye Anne Fox, the chancellor of
the San Diego campus, on a theater display with four times the image
resolution of today's HDTV technology.
The technology will use American and Japanese fiber networks that
stretch from Tokyo to Chicago, and the data will be relayed to San
Diego via an optical network connection in Seattle at speeds of a
billion bits per second.
The high-speed network will feed the data to a state-of-the-art Sony
video projector that displays so-called 4K digital video, with images
that are about 4,000 pixels across. When it is uncompressed at the
receiving end, the video stream contains more than six billion bits
per second.
Hollywood is on the verge of introducing an earlier generation of 2K
digital video to theaters in the United States and Japan. But some in
the industry believe that the 4K standard, which is still in the
prototype stage, will be necessary to give theater viewers a
significantly different experience from 35-millimeter film, today's
standard cinema format, and to compete with HDTV screens in homes.
"What we're showing here is really important for Hollywood," said
Laurin Herr, president of Pacific Interface, a technology consulting
company based in Oakland, Calif., that is engineering the
demonstration. "These same networks can be used to distribute other
digital stuff such as live events, live concerts and sports."
The 4K demonstration is also important for film production and
scientific work, Mr. Herr said, because studios increasingly shoot on
one side of the world and edit and produce the film on the other.
"Production has always been a team effort, but now the talent will be
spread around the globe," he said.
Optical networks and high-resolution displays are also becoming
mainstays of modern science. Scientific research increasingly
involves the use of vast digital files, and the optical digital
infrastructure that is emerging can be used to build computerized
scientific instruments that essentially straddle the globe.
The iGrid 2005 event will feature an array of scientific
visualization demonstrations, ranging from HDTV images from the
depths of the ocean to the distribution of cosmic-ray data from Tibet.
Haris I. Amin, MD
Ocean County Retina, PC
Toms River, NJ
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