Canon successfully tests 8K live-video transmission of rugby match, accelerates efforts towards realizing immersive public viewing
TOKYO, June 12, 2018—Canon Inc. announced today that on June 9 the company successfully concluded an 8K live-video transmission experiment.
Leveraging the company’s input and output technologies, and in cooperation with partner companies, Canon relayed the Lipovitan D Challenge Cup rugby match between the national teams of Japan and Italy that took place at the Oita Bank Dome in Oita Prefecture, located on Japan’s southernmost main island of Kyushu, to the Company’s Tokyo Headquarters.
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