This year's Rugby World Cup in Japan will be broadcast in 8K, the tournament's organisers have announced.
Japanese broadcaster NHK will offer up the 8K footage, but only to its domestic audience. Everyone outside Japan will have to make do with 4K, where available. That's hardly a hardship, seeing as 8K TVs aren't on sale in most countries yet. (And those that are don't exactly come cheap.)
RWC, the tournament's organisers, will offer coverage through multiple feeds in multiple formats, allowing broadcasters in each country to tailor it as they see fit.
“Our mission is to grow the global rugby family and our Rugby World Cup 2019 broadcast plans reflect that mission – providing more content to more people with more innovation than ever before," said World Rugby chairman Sir Bill Beaumont.
No fewer than 34 broadcast cameras will cover all angles for the final and semi-final. We're also promised a comprehensive social media package, producing four times as much content as during the last Rugby World Cup in 2015.
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