UHD Spain says the concept of UHD-HDR over 5G has already been proven.
The Association, responsible for the promotion of Ultra High Definition in Spain, was commenting on last October’s test of of UHD-HDR broadcasting and next-generation audio (NGA), using 5G technology at different points of the chain.
UHD Spain and partners AMETIC recently held a briefing on the test at the headquarters of the Spanish Confederation of Business Organizations (CEOE) in Madrid.
As part of the test, the partners had assembled a UHD workflow with HDR-HLG from the camera to the user’s device, using various broadcast media and technologies such as 5G, edge and cloud processing, and all available broadcast media: DTT (DVB-T2), satellite (DVB-S2), Internet (OTT, HbbTV) and the new 5G Broadcast system, with simultaneous Dolby Atmos sound.
A live broadcast of a concert by singer Israel Fernández held at the Real Observatorio Astronómico de Madrid with the collaboration of Radio 3 was chosen, which could be viewed on TVs, PCs, tablets or mobile devices through the official website of UHD Spain and other broadcasting systems.
The general manager of SAPEC, Miguel Ángel Cristóbal, one of the promoters of this novel idea, has been in charge of presenting a meeting that has served to explain the challenge that UHD Spain sets every year: “This time we wanted to see the possibility of combining the acronyms UHD and 5G because we wanted to see how far we could go to make an end-to-end workflow“. This test has been “one of the first experiences in the world that has mixed all these technologies, from the camera to the television or any support in which to display it,” said the general manager of SAPEC.
Pere Vila, president of UHD Spain, and Eduardo Valencia, director of Electronic Industry of AMETIC, together with Alex Gara, from Radio 3, highlighted the “learning” behind the test that led to the collaboration of more than 20 different companies.
RTVE director Jorge Alonso said the challenge could not be rejected. “We walked a long way over the precipice, but as a proof of concept, setbacks – such as the rain – cannot be prevented and in the end everything was solved.”
