BBC to screen 2012 Olympics in ‘Super Hi Vision’
The BBC is to use the occasion of the 2012 Olympic Games to introduce a new breed of hi-definition broadcast, said to be 16 times sharper than the best resolution currently available.
Dubbed Super High Vision it won’t require you to chuck out your new flat screen just yet, the broadcast will only be viewable on three specially built monitors at three UK locations.
Confirmed locations thus far are Glasgow’s Pacific Quay and London’s Broadcasting House with Bradford’s Media Museum also in the running.
Roger Mosey, BBC London 2012 director, said: “When you sit and watch it you really get the experience of being in seat D5 in the stadium. Super Hi Vision might be a better long-term prospect than 3D in some ways a it gives you the feel of being in the stadium. People are knocked out by it.”
Everyone else wanting to see what the future of television looks like will have to wait until 2022 at the earliest – when the first commercially available sets are expected to hit the market.