Posted on 10/31/2010 5:41:05 PM PDT by Las Vegas Dave
Japanese broadcaster NHK is planning public displays of its Ultra High-Definition TV system which supposedly offers a picture 16 times clearer than today's HDTVs.
That's according to an article by The Hollywood Reporter.
However, before you get too excited, the publication adds that it could be 2020 before you see UHDTV in anyone's living room.
Still, NHK says it will shoot some of the 2012 London Olympics in the format and then transmit the images to public displays in Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The Hollywood Reporter writes that the ultra-clear picture delivers detail so precise that it almost appears three-dimensional. The format offers 8K resolution; 7,680 horizontal pixels x 4,320 vertical pixels, says the publication. Today's HDTVs deliver about 2,000 horizontal pixels.
One obstacle in UHDTV's way: To display the ultra-clear image, sets should be in the 80-90 inch range.
Now I have to go out and spend another 2000 bucks on a big screen TV!
Overkill. Most HD sports programs are actually broadcast in 720.
I still have a tube TV.
Amazingly, I can see and enjoy the broadcast images thereupon.
The distance from 99.95% quality and 99.999% to get the HD stuff is pretty small — much less the 99.99999% suggested by the technology in the OP.
If all you want to do with a camera, for instance, is make 4"x5" prints, a few megapixels is adequate.
Higher resolution TV is only relevant if you want a screen the size of your wall. A 32" screen it 1080i is about as hi-def as you're going to get.
A 55" screen at the same resolution is not nearly as clear, but 2160i would be.
Amazingly, I can see and enjoy the broadcast images thereupon.
The distance from 99.95% quality and 99.999% to get the HD stuff is pretty small
Not exactly sure how you came up with your percentages, but to suggest that there isn't much difference between standard-def and high-def television is a bit absurd.
Ha ha, I still haven’t bought a HDTV — I gave my space on the technology treadmill to somebody else a long long time ago.
It helps my wallet that nobody yet has actually built an HDTV where the frames always update properly. I can’t stand seeing a close-up where every part of the face changes expression independently over eight or nine frames.
$2000 in 2020?
More like $60,000 + obamataxes, may get you closer to ownership.
Remember when plasma TV’s first arrived on the market, they were close to $12,000, (but dropped in price very quickly).
Exactly. I’ll stick with what I have.
The real purpose would be to get expensive film out of motion picture production.
Great, we get to see even more wrinkles, blackheads and wild hairs on newscasters’ faces than with HDTV.
Short of some revolution in content, I fail to see the value of the expenditure.
This is going to put a lot of newscasters with acne out of work forever.
A lot of people’s vision (mine included) is not good enough to appreciate such ultra-high resolution.
So I think that this is a limited market, just as IMAX is/was. We'll be wearing HD glasses a decade before we'll be watching UHD.
It would probably be better than what passes for 3d today. However, true HD content today looks almost 3d.
I have a 13” color set from 1978 (complete with tuner dials) that I use sometimes. Got it from a thrift store some years ago. It’s fun to hook the digital cable box up to it and watch football.
Nothing against HDTV, but I still wish manufacturers hadn’t discontinued CRT TVs. They didn’t want to spend the money to put digital tuners in them (now a requirement).
>>Not exactly sure how you came up with your percentages, but to suggest that there isn’t much difference between standard-def and high-def television is a bit absurd.<<
“Absurd” is a bit over the top. I assure you my enjoyment of what I watch is excellent. So you posit a difference without a distinction. The measure of the experience is the enjoyment factor. If I enjoy the content then I am missing nothing.
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