Japan Creates ‘Super Group’ for Ultra-HD

Advanced-Television.com reports that 21 Japanese broadcasters, consumer electronics companies and telcos have come together to create a high profile development partnership to help Japan, and the rest of the world., to move into television’s next generation transmission format, Ultra-HDTV.

The grouping includes public broadcaster NHK, which is actively backing its Super Hi-Vision/8K format, as well as commercial broadcaster SkyPerfect JSAT, which has already promised to start 4K transmissions in mid-2014. Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba, Fujitsu, NEC, KDDI and others are part of the super grouping.

Read a bit more at http://advanced-television.com/2013/04/25/japan-creates-super-group-for-ultra-hd/