BLU-RAY and the Ultrahigh-Definition TV of 2012

Super Hi-vision (Ultrahigh-Definition Wide-Screendimensional holographic images enable more
System with 4000 Scanning Lines) is the newinformation to be stored in a much smaller space,
standard in video viewing.preventing information overflow. This technology
NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratoriescomes from Michael E. Thomas owner of Colossal
has created a new piece of engineering genius in itsStorage Corporation of Fremont California.
8K Television System "Super Hi-vision". This newestAlso called Volume Holographic Optical Storage
imaging technology upon us already in Japan andNanotechnology the Volume (3 D) Holographic Optical
destined to give screen coverage of the 2012Drive technology plans to push future storage
Olympics on big screens in city centers across Britain.densities of optical mass storage over 40,000
The BBC plans to use the technology, named SuperTerabits/cu.cm. To compare with magnetic hard
Hi-Vision, just 4 years from now in 2012 but it wasdrives of today which are around at 60 gigabits one
developed in Japan in 2005.can understand that Mr. Thomas' optically assisted
Does this incredible new resolution show us thatdrives at 45 gigabits/sq. in. and contact recording
man-machine interfaces with even higher resolutionsAFM, STM, SPM or SFM, i.e. atomic force microscope
are possible, and soon? What of true 3D with noand their derivatives, at about 300 gigabits/sq.in mean
glasses, 4D and better and what of BLU-RAY, Violeta storage capacity far beyond what current available
Ray and Ultra-Violet Ray?methods provide.
NHK's new image creation uses a video format withA BLU-RAY player of the future might use tiny 3.5"
7680 x 4320 pixels (16 times higher than standarddiscs based on 3 D Volume Holographic Mass Data
Hi-vision, NHK's HDTV system). 4000 scanning linesStorage using the Einstein/Planck Theory of Energy
deliver ultra-clear, realistic three-dimensional imagesQuantum Electrons to control molecular properties by
that can be achieved only by ultrahigh-definitionan atom's electron movement/displacement.
technology.Using Ultraviolet/Blue laser diodes with Voltage
Scanning lines are not visible even when relativelytransducer to write, new definitions of term include
close to the screen. And a wider viewing anglephoton/laser induced electrical field poling and UV/Blue
provides a stronger sense of a reality.laser diode and Nanooptical transistors or Nanofloating
The 3-D audio system has 24 speakers dramaticallygates Mos Fet to read.
enhancing live presence.To be created for this device are ferroelectric
Around the world electronics consumers have beenperovskite's dipole dielectrics giving properties allowing
buying the newest high definition TVs and BLU-RAYwrite, erase and storage states in nanocrystal
players to go with them but with this newestmemories. A Semiconductor Integrated Optical Read
high-definition TV Japanese broadcasters and theWrite Head will play back the data.
BBC have finalized a system 33 times more detailedHaving an almost infinite storage persistence of data
than the best sets currently for sale.fast read/write control of ferroelectric molecules will
By 2015 NHK hopes to begin test broadcasts of itsallow increasing areal densities and data transfer rates
Super Hi-Vision system, with full-time publicof data between the random mass storage device
broadcasts scheduled for 2025.to system requirements and this will increase mass
Nobuyuki Hiruma, associate director at NHK'sstorage bandwidth needs.
laboratories in Tokyo, says that "Super Hi-Vision TVFor the new BLU-RAY ULTRA-VIOLET RAY players
approaches the realism of human vision." I fact it wasof tomorrow a transmission speed of extraordinary
based on research into human vision.magnitude will be needed to send movies over the
Super Hi-Vision exists only at NHK's Broadcastinginternet.
Center in Tokyo, where it is projected on to a 10Super Hi-Vision live relay over IP
meter (yard) by 5.5 meter (yard) screen, with soundOn December 31, 2006 a global first happened when
coming from 22 multi-layered speakers capable ofa Super Hi-Vision feed of the 57th Kohaku Uta
replicating the sound of a concert hall. 24 discreteGassen (NHK's annual "Red & White Song Battle"
channel speakers are the actual technical goal.which is the most-watched TV event of the year in
Only 20 minutes of Ultrahigh-Definition can beJapan) was relayed long-distance over an IP network
recorded at a time and it must be edited frame byfrom the Tokyo venue and displayed on a giant
frame. Making a back-up takes engineers an whole450-inch screen in an Osaka studio. There, members
night, and after a week they have only enoughof the public enjoyed ultra-realistic picture and sound
material for one hour of Super Hi-Vision TV.reproduction equivalent to a VIP seat at the actual
Sitting just three meters (yards) from a 450-inchlive event.
screen, viewers says "sometimes we suffer motionUsing a codec developed by NHK for efficient
sickness," says Masaru Kanazawa, research engineertransmission and broadcast of Super Hi-Vision signals
on the SHV project.the encoder compresses the video signal from
While such a huge screens would not fit into mostapproximately 24Gbps down to 180-600Mbps and the
living rooms, Kanazawa thinks they soon mightaudio from 28Mbps to 7-28Mbps. The reduced bit
anyway.rate makes it possible to transmit the signal and to
Hiroyuki Ohira, GM of Pioneer's plasma developmentrecord even an event of long duration like Kohaku
center in Yamanashi, is in charge of the same teamUta Gassen.
that, in the 1990s, invented the first high-definitionA live viewing at the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi,
plasma screens. "We are trying to develop a SuperJapan (Expo 2005 Aichi) was held from March to
Hi-Vision panel to help NHK realize its broadcastSeptember 2005 on the theme "Wisdom of Nature".
plans," he said.At NHK booth, Super Hi-vision images were displayed
The BBC and NHK often collaborate on programon a 600-inch screen. With about 8,000 visitors each
production, most recently on the Davidday, for six months some 1,560,000 people have
Attenborough-narrated documentary Planet Earthseen these images and enjoyed crystal-clear
which was filmed in high definition and produced aultrahigh-definition wide-screen system on the big
number of new techniques.screen.
November of 2007 NHK strapped its high definitionFor the first time in history a live-relay optical
television cameras to a Japan Aerospace Explorationtransmission of Super Hi-Vision succeeded in 2
Agency lunar probe to film an "Earth rise" over theNovember, 2007. The transmission was between
moon in Ultrahigh-Definition detail.Kamogawa of Chiba prefecture and NHK Science
To overcome the problem of how to transmit huge& Technical Research Laboratories. Kamogawa is
amounts of data remains NHK is uses Dirac videofamous for Kamogawa Sea World aquarium and
compression technology for its Super Hi-Visionabout 260 km away from NHK Labs.
testing, this is a BBC technology.The long-haul optical transmission of uncompressed
Using large outdoor screens and with the aid ofvideo and audio signals by using DWDM (Dense
Participate, an EU-funded project promoting publicWavelength Division Multiplexing) technique was a
interaction with new technology, BBC engineers aregroundbreaking moment.
involved in Super Hi-Vision events. "Super Hi-VisionAnd so your BLU-RAY player of the future might be
feeds nicely into that and it's definitely a long-termin Ultra-Violet or it could come strictly as a download
ambition," said Andy Bower, interim controller of thefrom a new Super-Pipe Internet IV right into your
BBC Research and Innovation Centre.mind.
As you how to overcome data storage threeStand back, the Future is already Old.