CMG succeeds in 4K UHD video production on 5G media platform

China Media Group (CMG) held a ceremony on Thursday to celebrate its first successful broadcast of 4K ultra-high-definition video onto its new media platform using a 5G network. This cutting-edge broadcast technology will be used by China Media Group during its coverage of the upcoming Two Sessions meetings in Beijing.

Wang Xiaohui (center), the administrative vice minister of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, operates the projection of a 4K program using a Huawei 5G foldable phone in Beijing on Thursday, February 28, 2019. [Photo: China Plus]

At the ceremony, 4K video was transmitted from 16 cities around the country into China Media Group's 5G media lab in Beijing. The ultra-high-definition images were then sent over a 5G network to one of Huawei's new Mate X 5G-capable foldable smartphones. The demonstration shows that China Media Group's 5G new media platform is capable of integrating multiple 4K video signals, and broadcasting programs in a 4K ultra-high-definition format.

Shen Haixiong, the president of China Media Group, gives a speech at the ceremony to mark the first successful broadcast of 4K ultra-high-definition video from cities across China through a 5G network to China Media Group’s new media platform in Beijing on Thursday, February 28, 2019. [Photo: China Plus]

China is becoming the largest market of 4K and 5G applications. China Media Group partnered with China Telecom, China Mobile, China Unicom, and Huawei to build the country's first 5G-based new media platform at the end of 2018. And thanks to the establishment of 5G media labs, video applications that make full use of the capabilities of 5G network technologies are being developed.

China Media Group has already shown that it's quick to make the most of new 5G technologies. In early February, it used a 5G network to transmit 4K ultra-high-definition video live from Shenzhen and Changchun to Beijing during this year's Spring Festival Gala broadcast.

Attendees at the ceremony to witness the first broadcast for China Media Group's 4K ultra-high-definition video on 5G new media platform in Beijing on Thursday, February 28, 2019. [Photo: China Plus]

Fifth-generation networks are a cutting edge technology that is quickly becoming the next battleground for competition in the telecommunications industry. And the high speed and high capacity transmissions possible with a 5G network, when combined with 4K video, looks set to provide big opportunities to boost development in the media sector and transform the viewing experience for audiences.