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<\/a><\/p>\nMore specifically, at the GLIF workshop, SITOLA streamed an 8K\u00a0movie from the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University in Chicago to the SITOLA laboratory in Brno, Czech Republic, and to the site of the demonstration\u2014the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Participants on both receiving locations could control the streaming interactively. UltraGrid used JPEG compression at 2\u00a0Gb\/s, on-the-fly recompressed to DXT5-YCoCg compression at 6.5\u00a0Gb\/s and displayed the images on a high-resolution tiled-display walls using EVL\u2019s SAGE middleware, which is interoperable with UltraGrid.<\/p>\n
Currently, such capabilities can be used for specialty venues, such as conferences, and for advanced research applications, such as medical training, but in the future services such as this will be available to consumers. Because of the resolution limitation of human vision, 8K\u00a0or ultra-high-definition video is perceived as the ultimate technology for broadcasting and cinematography applications. It is 16\u00a0times the resolution of standard Full-high-definition, and enables the viewer to be better immersed in the scene. This standard was demonstrated during the Summer Olympic Games\u00a02012 in London by NHK and BBC, where custom hardware and networks were used to transmit the content from the stadiums. The format has been standardized and is expected to be deployed in production around the year\u00a02020.<\/p>\n
This demonstration was supported by CESNET, the Czech national research and education network, the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University, the Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and the StarLight International\/National Communications Exchange Facility. The 8K\u00a0movie was originally produced by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Adler Planetarium\u2019s domed ceiling.<\/p>\n