The world’s only 16K screen requires 4000TB SSD
The Sphere home TV is still the coolest screen in the world with its 16K resolution. To ensure the operation of such a screen, you need powerful hardware. For example, the Hitachi Vantara software that streams ultra-high-definition content to both the building’s indoor and outdoor displays requires a 4,000 TB SSD with 400 GB/second bandwidth.
Everything about Sphere is cutting-edge, and Hitachi Vantara detailed how its software technology processes Sphere’s original and immersive content and helps deliver it to the 14800 square meter indoor LED display and the 53880 square meter outdoor Exosphere display.
Hitachi Content Software for File, which Hitachi describes as a “high-performance software-defined storage solution for distributed parallel file systems,” is an integral part of the suite. It consists of 27 nodes with 4 PB of flash memory for playback in Sphere.
The system transmits content in real time to 7thSense media servers, each of which broadcasts 4K video at 60 frames per second. This is the world’s first technological potential of this scale.
To broadcast Darren Aronofsky’s original film Postcard from Earth, the system had to operate with a bandwidth of over 400 GB/s with a latency of less than 5 milliseconds and a 12-bit color display with 444 sub-sampling.
