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New High Tech Digital Media Makes Its Way To SF State
Media innovations fed onto campus

By Nathan Nugent
nn@sfsu.edu
Staff Writer

San Francisco, CA, September 29, 2005 - Digital media’s next generation of technology made its premier appearance this week in a four day long workshop and symposium on the University of California, San Diego campus, beginning on Tuesday with a demonstration of the world’s first international real-time streaming of super high-definition video.

The debut transmission of uncompressed 4K digital video, which offers a resolution 24 times greater then a standard broadcast TV signal was shown live inside SF State’s Administration building to a crowd of onlookers granted the opportunity to view a definitive display of sound and image that linked UCSD to Keio University in Tokyo via roughly 9,000 miles of optical fiber networks.

This marks the first time ever in humanity that this collaborative production process will be demonstrated between geographically dispersed partners,said Joaquin Alvarado, director of the Institute for Next Generation Internet at SF State and host of the event.

The demonstration is only the opening feature of the four day long iGrid scientific computing conference in which Yuichiro Anzai, president of Keio and Marye Ann Fox chancellor of the San Diego campus use the fiber networks stretching from Tokyo to Chicago to relay the images through an optical network connection in Seattle at speeds of a billion bits per second according to the New York Times.

With members of Skywalker Sound along with SF State students and members of Berkley’s Youth Radio doing a live mix of audio from a communication center in Oakland, Alvarado made it clear to all in attendance that this symposium carries the potential for creating an unlimited amount of unexplored possibilities.

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