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NTT West is testing the delivery of 4K TV streams over the Internet. The trial, which is being held with NTT SmartConnect Corp., carriers 4K video (3,840 × 2,160) using H.265/HEVC compression to next generation set-top boxes. The companies are hosting a demo at this week’s Makuhari Messe.
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From the Technology Graveyard
You just read about The Internet. Here is what it replaced:
BITNET served 1981–1996. What ultimately replaced it?
BITNET an academic store-and-forward network linking mainframes over leased lines - home of LISTSERV and early cross-campus file and message exchange. Its job passed to The Internet — but the problem it solved, and the ideas it proved, live on in what replaced it. The standard rests here in the archive. One of 198 technologies here that opened a door and then held it for the next.
From 25 years of the Converge Digest archive.
