While some media professionals are looking beyond 4K to 8K acquisition, workflows for 4K content in broadcast environments are already being employed in the United States.One might imagine that broadcast applications for 4K would be limited by delivery capabilities, but that is hardly the case.
Michael Jackson was "alive" and moonwalking his way across the stage during a 3D holographic performance at the Billboard Music Awards. This type of projection effect has been catching on with event producers since it was popularized with a digital performance by deceased rapper Tupac Shakur at the 2012 Coachella music festival.
In the spring of 1945, Allied forces liberating Europe took cameras with them into the grim reality of what they were walking into. As the troops entered the German concentration camps, they made a systematic film record of what they saw. Work began on a documentary to show the horror they witnessed to the German population.
Japan's NHK says it has successfully transmitted 8K "Super Hi-Vision" television signals via a single standard UHF terrestrial broadcast channel over a distance of 27 km. Super Hi-Vision 8K video with its 7,680 x 4,320 pixel images provides about 16 times the resolution of conventional 1080-line high-definition television and generates a proportionally greater amount of data. Uncompressed, an 8K 60-field image produces a data rate of about 24 Gbps.