According to news on August 9th, last night, the first concert of the National Centre for the Performing Arts “Hua Cai Qiuyun” series “Prosperous Voices: Zhang Yi, Chen Yue and the National Centre for the Performing Arts” was staged in the Concert Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts.
It is understood that this performance is hosted by the National Centre for the Performing Arts, under the guidance of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economics and Information Technology and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Commerce, co-organized by the Ultra HD Video (Beijing) Production Technology Collaboration Center and China Mobile Beijing Company. A special promotion event planned by “Hyun·Color Life Month 100 Screens Linkage New Consumption”.
CCTV host Bai Yansong said: “Tonight is not only the first performance of the “Hua Cai Qiuyun” series, but also a revolutionary event. On the surface it is ‘8K+5G’, but it is actually an industry of’art + technology’. + The market’s innovation.”
On the night of the concert, citizens watched the concert simultaneously through 8K TVs, 5G mobile phones and other display terminals at eight 8K live broadcast locations in the city. The eight 8K live broadcast locations are located in the Petal Hall of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, Financial Street Shopping Center, Haidian Exhibition Center Convention Center Summer Hall, Wangfujing Pedestrian Street Central Plaza, Sanlitun Taikoo Li South Central Plaza, Zhongguancun Pedestrian Street, and Huaxi LIVE Beijing At the entrance of Times Art Museum, the first floor of Han’s Square in Yizhuang Economic Development Zone.
In addition, the concert was also broadcast by CCTV with ultra-high-definition broadcast signals, which were broadcast simultaneously on the Classical Music Channel of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, CCTV, NetEase Cloud Music, Douyin, and Kuaishou.
It is worth noting that this concert has successfully achieved multiple firsts. The first global concert “8K+5G” live broadcast; for the first time, the “8K+5G” OB van was used in stage art performances, which is the world’s first “8K+5G” ultra-high-definition video full-service OB van; The large-scale 8K ultra-high-definition network cloud distribution in the field of consumer terminals expands “8K+5G” applications from point-to-point demonstration applications to consumer-level applications for 8K TVs and 5G mobile phones, allowing “8K+5G” technology to enter the consumer life of ordinary people in.
In an interview with the media, Deputy Dean Wang Cheng, Deputy Dean of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, said, “The transmission of ultra-high-definition picture quality also means that the details of musicians, actors and stage art can be seen in front of the audience. This is also an important issue for our industry and profession. Higher requirements.”
There is a 14-meter-long live broadcast vehicle not far from the performance hall, where the 8K+5G signal collection and production is completed. Compared with the National Centre for the Performing Arts using 8K+5G technology to record the panoramic sound opera movie “The Dawn Here is Quiet” in 2019, the technical problems faced by this live broadcast are more complicated.
According to Gu Jinxu, chief engineer of Beijing Economic and Information Bureau, one 8K TV is equivalent to the amount displayed by four 4K TVs and can record 40G video signals per second. Therefore, the storage and production capacity requirements are very high, and 5G network transmission is fast, The low-latency feature is more conducive to the real-time transmission of 8K video. After the live broadcast ends, the technicians will also collect feedback from the audience at eight live broadcast locations to make technical improvements and improvements. The next step may be to prepare for holographic imaging in the future.
Regarding the charging issue that everyone is more concerned about, Deputy Dean Wang Cheng said that all online viewing is currently free. As a public welfare project, technological innovation and realization facilitate audiences from all over the world to enjoy higher-level, high-quality art performances. The investment in this live broadcast has been supported by companies and other parties, and more business models will be explored in the future to balance it.
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