Trans-Atlantic 8K/UHDTV Streaming With UltraGrid and Commodity PCs 58
An anonymous reader writes "During the 12th Annual Global LambdaGrid Workshop in Chicago, researchers have demonstrated interactive multi-point streaming of 8K/UHDTV (i.e., 16x Full HD resolution) using commodity PC hardware running Linux and open-source UltraGrid software. The transmissions featured GPU-accelerated JPEG and DXT compressions implemented using the NVIDIA CUDA platform, which are also available as open-source software. The streams were distributed from the source to one location in the USA and to another location in the Czech Republic over 10Gbps GLIF network infrastructure."
doesn't matter. (Score:5, Insightful)
I do not know about satellite TV, but cable tv compresses the source so bad, that 720p TV looks blocky on a 1080p TV with little movement. Cable TV providers, like comcast are ruining HD TV by the crappy quality because they only care about money, not about quality. If they ever got on this bandwagon, they would fuck it up.