March 03, 2003

Beaming Video at Speed of Light

HAMILTON, New Zealand -- On the large television screen, a Kiwi singer strummed a guitar and sang an old country favorite. Looking away from the monitor, the audience could barely pick out a tiny red light in the tall building 1.4 kilometers -- a little less than a mile -- away.

It was this light that brought the singer's performance to the 100 or so in the audience this week in what is believed to be the first live broadcast of high-quality television images over visible light spectrum.

http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,57860,00.html

Posted by geert at March 3, 2003 04:31 PM
Comments
Post a comment