Madrid-based SAPEC, together with Cisco and Spain’s public broadcaster (RTVE, Corporación Radiotelevisión Española), say they will make history by broadcasting 8K content for the first time via terrestrial television in DVB-T2 DTT.
SAPEC says it is leading the creation of the encoder that will allow the RTVE-UPM Cátedra to broadcast live 8K content via DVB-T2, which will be the first broadcast of its kind in the world. The RTVE-UPM Cátedra is a research collaboration between the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE and the Polytechnic University of Madrid.
This project, in which a number of leading companies in the broadcast industry are involved, entails major challenges. The live broadcast will be based on full UHD 8K, Phase-2 content, captured at high quality, and then distributed on an 8Mhz bandwidth UHF multiplex. This means that not only…
