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There are probably only six 4K-TV-owners out there, but golly darn gosh the Beeb’s an equal-opportunities broadcaster, and it’s going to cater to them. Specifically, the Beeb’s planning to make its next big nature documentary in glorious 4K for the well-heeled’s viewing pleasure.
The first documentary to air will be Survival, a nature documentary that presumably involves cute fluffy animals mating and then getting eaten by predators or something (probably with David Attenborough narrating — but that’s just a guess). Auntie Beeb’s long had a flirtation with Ultra HD, first starting to toy with the tech way back in 2008 they even broadcast bits of the Olympics in retina-melting 8K. So, owners of 4K worldwide, chin up — not only do you have levels of disposable income I can only dream of, but you’ll have stuff to watch on your super-expensive TV. Lucky buggers. [Telegraph via TechRadar]
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Will it not work on regular 60″ HD LED?
Or they could just up the bitrate on their two HD channels?
Flick over to Sky Sports HD and the difference is Night and Day.
Pfft!, Sky’s hd is terrible. On top of that they lowered the quality of their SD content to try to get you to upgrade to HD.
The benefit (and point) of this isn’t for the 6 people with 4K TVs right now to watch it in 4K (or UHD, or whatever it’s called this week), but for posterity when 4K _is_ the standard as HD is right now.
It’s especially important when it comes to landmark documentaries like the nature ones the BBC produces. Stuff like this deserves to be filmed in as high a quality as it possibly can be – even if no-one can watch it in that format yet.
Agreed.. It will still be interesting to watch in 10 years time…
By which time you’ll be able to stream it from iPlayer over your quantum teleportation broadband and up-scale it nicely to your 8k Telly
The 8K coverage last year was spectacular.