May 20 – Italy are making TV production history with the first broadcast of a football match in the new 4K Ultra-HD format. The Juventus versus Lazio TIM Cup Final at Rome’s Stadio Olimpico tonight, will be the first to offer broadcasters a live feed in the fledgling TV format.
Infront Sports & Media, the media production partner of Lega Serie A, says the upgraded broadcast is the culmination of a season of HD coverage of Serie A.
The match will be produced with DBW Communication, a supplier of technical and specialised systems for shooting and recording, who have built a production set-up of 28 HD cameras and an additional six 4K cameras.
Ultra-HD is the next ‘big thing’ in TV technology and televisions calapble of broadcasting 4K resolutions are seen by consumer electronics companies as the next trigger for an upgrade cycle for television sets due to a lack of consumer uptake in 3D television.
Ultra-HD and is a resolution of 3840 pixels × 2160 lines. It is one of the two resolutions of ultra high definition television targeted towards consumer television, the other being FUHD which is 7680 pixels × 4320 lines (33.2 megapixels). Ultra-HD has twice the horizontal and vertical resolution of the 1080p HDTV format, with four times as many pixels overall.
Infront says the 4K Ultra-HD broadcast will provide images four times more defined than those in HD. The game will also be filmed in HFR (High Frame Rate) at 50 frames per second, twice the number of frames currently used for television broadcasts – creating a clearer flow of image information to capture as much detail from the game as possible.
And if that wasn’t enough new TV technology, for the first time a football match will be recorded using the HDR (High Dynamic Range) recording system. The advantage of HDR technology is that is delivers greater colour depth and contrast ratio between light and dark areas than other recording systems.
The broadcast signal will be available to broadcasters in two 4K Ultra-HD versions – one in a Standard Dynamic Range (the standard currently supported by 4K–compatible television devices) and one in High Dynamic Range. The latter is tailored to the latest generation of television sets supporting HDR technology and will be available on the market over the coming months.
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