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.
I’ve been in Japan 25 years and have never given them a yen . The bastards used to send a guy around the house to threaten us ( blacklisting , arrest , etc...) but both my wife and I told him to get lost . They still send a bill in the post which promtly goes into the waste basket .
Agreed. I think HD is very situational. It’s good for certain types of programming (like sports), but of relatively little benefit for things like the news. Would you want to see Keith Olbermann in high-def? I sure don’t (for that matter, I’d rather not see him in standard-def either).
Erm, yeah...who is that, btw?
It may be that doing a decent home calibration of your TV would vastly increase your enjoyment. Sets tend to come from the factory with absurd settings, brightness and contrast set to unrealistic levels, etc., all so they look as bright as possible on display in stores. This could VERY easily be causing the harshness you seem to be describing. I’m a huge movie buff and find *good* HDTV to be a fantastic addition to cinematic beauty. And I can tell you that a decent home calibration of a set can make a stunning difference.
http://www.amazon.com/Spears-Munsil-High-Definition-Benchmark-Blu-ray/dp/B001UM29OC/ref=pd_cp_d_1
MM
GoGo is too expensive and so is cable or satellite. I download my media then transfer TV shows and movies with either Tversity or USB drives.
Your Zenith would be a System 3, as that was the last new chassis they developed. Lucky Goldstar bought out Zenith after they went under in 1991 and continued making System 3s until about 1997 (with production moved to Mexico). They also sold some of their own sets with the Zenith name.
Anyway, this guy who had the Dumont (an RA-103 combo TV/FM radio) noted that the signal put out by DVD players is a bit of an overload on vacuum-tube electronics and produces an excessively bright picture with blooming.
You may also notice that today’s TV shows look terrible in black-and-white (poor contrast), as opposed to 1950s programming which was designed with that in mind and had high-contrast backgrounds.
>>GoGo is too expensive and so is cable or satellite. I download my media then transfer TV shows and movies with either Tversity or USB drives.<<
I have ways of offsetting the costs... :)
Your enjoyment factor is just fine if it works for you. I’m certainly not going to give you a hard time over it. Still, you are missing something. 1080 is considerably more than a few percentage points over 450.
You have chosen to be happy with the picture you have, I am glad.
Before I had an HDTV I bought the HDTV digital box and played the image on my 54” big screen (pre-HDTV) Zenith. The picture was amazing compared to the picture from the regular cable box.
So I know what you are talking about. The picture is still a vast improvement over the regular cable feed. Again, if you’re happy, I’m glad.
>>Again, if you’re happy, I’m glad.<<
I guess it is like wine — if you enjoy it then the fancy-shmancy stuff isn’t important.
Maybe this year I’ll pick op one of them newfangled thin screen sets — but only after I see if it turns on quickly. Waiting forever for an appliance to “warm up” before it can be used irks me to no end...
:)
I think you’ll really enjoy it if you pick up a good set.
The pictures are remarkable.
I’ll have to admit, I don’t like the wait either, but what the heck. It’s only about ten seconds and then you’re off...
Take care.
I just go a Hatchi 51 HDTV rear projection. I do not have HD yet and the dark scenes are very dark even hitting my day/nite button but still too dark I have played with every button. Any help would be appreciated. did not mean to take away from the news but I figured some here could help.thanks
The local Salvation Army has huge Sony Wega’s for $50.
When I lived there, I didn’t even have a TV for quite a while. The NHK guys would never believe me when I told them that.
Sounds like you have the 120hz motion thingy turned on. Movies look just like you described, like a soap opera or a documentary. Turn that motion thing OFF for movies so they look like movies again.
My cousin was showing off his motion technology to me watching the last Batman blu-ray, him and his father liked the effect, I hated it. It was akin to being in the room and watching them film it, the illusion was gone. Film is supposed to have grain, etc. the motion technology turns it into a PBS documentary.
Does this mean I will be able to see more detail on the “Ow, My Balls” channel?
FREE calibration procedure from PC World..
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148462/how_to_calibrate_your_hdtv.html
To all, I will be posting my annual (2010) BLACK FRIDAY thread, BF is only 3 weeks away!!
If you or anyone else is looking, don’t rule out DLP, which is the modern version of rear-projection TV. You can get much larger sizes per dollar than the flat panels, the picture quality is superb, and especially if you’re a gamer or big sports fan, DLPs are not susceptible to burn-in at all.
MM
Actually, that's just an article about calibration, in which they review some calibration discs, etc. None of them, BTW, are as good as the one I linked in my earlier post.
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