Seeing is believing: Everything you need to know about 8K in live broadcasting and professional displays

A picture is worth a thousand words. Displays with 8K resolution, which means not only more but better and faster pixels, provide immersive experiences and genuine visual impact in the industry, engaging the audience with real-time broadcasting. Together with 8K Association and Sharp NEC Display Solutions, Intel hosted a Fireside Chat to provide a deeper understanding on WHY 8K is so important in today’s technology evolution, that includes the realization of 8K in the Internet of Things market, how it impacts the world of broadcasting and the whole industry ecosystem.

Meet the speakers

Dr. Ben Cope
Principal Engineer
Intel

After completing his PhD from Imperial College London, Dr. Ben Cope joined Altera in 2008, where he worked as market segment owner and system architect for Pro-AV and Studio businesses. Following Altera’s acquisition by Intel in 2015, he moved to the Intel IOTG group supporting architect-level discussions with clients on video, AI and workload consolidation. He now works as platform architect focused on product planning in the same team achieving the title of Principle Engineer in 2022. Ben holds eight patent disclosures and seven technical publications including in the Journal of Computers and SMPTE Motion Imaging Journal.

Peter Heins
Senior Product Manager Large Format Displays
Sharp NEC Display Solutions Europe GmbH

Peter has been the European Product Manager at Sharp for 31 years. Before he went to Sharp, he worked for Barco (TVD) and Sanyo Video. Starting his career with projectors and later with professional displays.

In addition to the large format displays, he takes care of 8K from the professional camera to the 8K displays. In Europe, Sharp offers a 4m² (120″) HDR model and a 32″ HDR colour management monitor with 1000 cd/m² peak brightness.’

Chris Chinnock
Executive Director
8K Association

As Executive Director of the 8K Association, Chris helps manage the organization as well as actively participating in the work groups and projects. This includes activities like writing the organization’s weekly newsletter, managing digital marketing efforts, working on white papers, developing trade show activities and demos, participating in seminars/webinars, developing organizational strategy and missions, and more.

Chris is also the founder of Insight Media, a 24-year old firm focused on advanced display-based ecosystem technology. In this role, he serves clients to help with their writing, marketing and strategic needs.

Ravindra Velhal
Global Content Technology Strategist and 8K Lead
Intel Corporation

Ravi Velhal leads Digital Media Standards, Technologies and Immersive Cinema programs globally at Intel. He and his teams pioneered the first ever live streaming of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics games in 8K, 60 fps, HDR over the open internet to selected locations worldwide, and launched 8K OTT service with GloboTV in Brazil. As a Cinema Virtual Reality Experience (VRE) pioneer, he co-produced several premium Hollywood and global Cinema VREs, “Spider-Man: Far From Home” over 5G, Dunkirk-Save Every Breathe, Grease in Volumetric and EMMY nominated ” Spider-Man: Home Coming” and “FirstMan VREs”.

He is a recipient of Hollywood’s prestigious Lumiere award twice, Infinity Film Festival Audience Choice Award, 8K Project of the year winner, finalist for “Technology Leader of the year 2021” by iABM, FICCI-Frames pioneering contribution awards for advancing media sector in India. Ravi holds dozens of global patents, authored several research papers and spoke at more than 100 forums and prestigious conferences worldwide. He co-chairs Encode group in the 8K association, Immersive Cinema at Hollywood’s Infinity Festival, contributor towards climate change, inclusive education initiatives and an advisor to film and trade organizations globally.

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