Think Football!: "Towards 4K or 8K definition, immersion in the images" (F-C Bideaux, Groupe Canal+)

"Our customers have found that the transition from SD to HD was the best innovation of the past fifteen years. Now we head towards 4K or 8K definition. We will work on immersion in the images. The screens will be larger and larger. The immersive element will be extraordinary. There will be immersion into the event with a notion of depth. The viewer will choose what he will look and not what the broadcast imporses,"said François-Charles Bideaux, production manager for sports of the Groupe Canal+, during the debate "Broadcasting Football in the Future", as part of the Think Football! 2017 event at the Université Paris-Dauphine in France on 10/01/2017.

This panel was one of the three debates during this first edition of Think Football!, a day of discussions and exchanges centered on innovation in sport, and organised by News Tank Football and its partners and involving several hundred actors throughout sport, in Paris (FRA) on 10/01/2017.

"Virtual reality is an innovation on which we work a lot. But this is only a supplement. The real innovation is still improving the quality of image…