Wednesday, August 11th 2021

Tokyo Olympics 8K Broadcast Was Powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8380H Servers

Intel has recently unveiled that their technology powered the 8K 60 FPS Tokyo Olympics broadcast which was available to select customers in Japan. The games were recorded in 8K at 60 FPS with 4:2:2 Chroma subsampling and 10-bit HDR which resulted in a bitrate of 48 Gbps. This uncompressed stream was then encoded on servers each featuring quad 28 core Xeon 8380H processors and 384 GB of ram into two HEVC distribution streams at 250 Mbps and 50-100 Mbps bitrates. These streams were then distributed to users over the internet where the 8K stream could be decoded and displayed on an 8K TV over HDMI 2.1. Intel used a workstation PC with an 18-core Xeon W-2295 and 64 GB of ram to decode and play the video stream on the TV. This 8K service was only made available to select NHK subscribers in Japan while most international broadcasts offered a maximum resolution of 4K.
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53 Comments on Tokyo Olympics 8K Broadcast Was Powered by Intel Xeon Platinum 8380H Servers

#51
Chrispy_
Tardian2.35:1 and wider is what projectors are designed to produce. For best quality use an anamorphic projector lens.
I don't use my TV in the dark, and a projector in the daytime is about 50:1 contrast ratio, around 100x lower than my TV, and also half the refresh rate and without vrr and with hideous input lag.
But yeah, given the complete lack of ultrawide TV's that's pretty much the only, yet wholly inadequate option :\
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#52
THU31
What a complete waste of bandwidth and processing power. But dumb masses will go for it and we will get totally useless 8K content and displays instead of something worthwhile like 21:9 aspect ratio.
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#53
ARF
Broadcasting at 8K is fine and very nice, and what's not fine is the ongoing worldwide manmade corruption that plagues all the companies that continue to use the much inferior Intel hardware, yeah, HP, Dell and the likes. Absolute lack of competence.
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