{"id":799,"date":"2008-09-02T01:03:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2008-09-02T01:03:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T16:03:26","slug":"japans-national-tv-station-nhk-makes-a-leap-forward-in-mobile-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/japans-national-tv-station-nhk-makes-a-leap-forward-in-mobile-broadcasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s national TV station NHK makes a leap forward in mobile broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nhk_street_logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-800\" title=\"nhk_street_logo\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nhk_street_logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"61\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJapan&#8217;s national TV station <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk.or.jp\/englishtop\/\">NHK<\/a> is not just a broadcaster but also quite active in technology development. For example,  the organization is driving forward the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4320p\">Ultra-HDTV format<\/a> (7680 x 4320 pixels, also known as Super Vision), which is to be deployed in Japan 2015.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nhk_street.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-801\" title=\"nhk_street\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/nhk_street-178x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn the web, NHK <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/28\/japanese-national-tv-network-expands-to-youtube\/\">first expanded to Youtube<\/a> and starting today, the organization now also offers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk-ep.co.jp\/nhkstreet\/\">NHK Street<\/a>, a mobile web video site. The service is only available to subscribers (315 Yen\/2.90 USD\/2.00 Euros per month) and can&#8217;t be accessed outside Japan.<br \/>\nThe crucial point: Users will be able to view video in high quality on their handsets, similar to TV broadcasts. Images will be transmitted at a maximum of 30fps, supposedly the highest in the mobile industry.<br \/>\nBased on the new technology (dubbed &#8220;Media Cast Movie&#8221;), NHK is now also able to offer full-length broadcasts instead of short clips. The technology was jointly developed by Tokyo-based start-up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquacast.co.jp\/index.html\">Aquacast<\/a> and powerhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachi.com\">Hitachi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s national TV station NHK is not just a broadcaster but also quite active in technology development. For example, the organization is driving forward the Ultra-HDTV format (7680 x 4320 pixels, also known as Super Vision), which is to be deployed in Japan 2015. On the web, NHK first expanded to Youtube and starting today,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/japans-national-tv-station-nhk-makes-a-leap-forward-in-mobile-broadcasting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Japan&#8217;s national TV station NHK makes a leap forward in mobile broadcasting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,9,17,23,24],"tags":[2580,4044],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-company","category-japan","category-new-service","category-news","tag-nhk","tag-web-broadcasting","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}