Here comes UHDV. Is anyone else getting tired of getting the best and badest "toy" only to have the stakes raised again??? Article
All that I can say is it is good to be alive right now. Some many innovations and such. It makes me realize how smart human or the japanese really are. But seriously glad i didn't invest in HDTV when I can have UHDTV =P
I guess the cool thing about it is that maybe if UHDV is developed for the consumer market, it'll drive the prices of HDTV equipment down to an affordable level.
So I guess the UK will be seeing UHDV in about, say, 20-ish years? Seeing as HDTV still isn't even available.
And not likely to be, as we alrady have 'our' digital format (more channels, not greater pic quality - Sky & Digital Terrestrial)
I still don’t get why anybody needs HGTV for broadcast. Why would Sesame Street need to be in high definition? Then again my next TV better have a vga input where I can get a descent resolution out of it.
You're kidding right? Sky Digital is supposed to be 'our' HDTV? BSkyB seem more interested in releasing an unlimited (and unwanted) supply of crap channels rather than improving the existing ones. Have you noticed how low the bit-rate can go sometimes? I was watching a movie one night late and the film contained a heavy thunderstorm nearly making the picture unwatchable, it was similar to streaming internet clips. Yet you'd expect the movie channels to be of the highest quality. But don't worry, I think we still need 'Granada Gold Plus+5'.
Component level satellite receivers? Dish Network and I believe DirecTV both have special satellites in orbit that broadcast nothing but high-definition broadcasts.
That is higher res than DVD, surely if sets need to be redesigned to play that level quality then the resolution on the DVD also needs to increase? Maybe this is to tie in with Blu-Ray or its successor? On a side note as analogue projectors used in cinema essentially shine a light through an image frame am I right in thinking that the image you see at the cinema is 20MP+? Hang on I pulled up a useful quote, "At full cinema quality, Fraunhofer engineers estimate they would need to handle five gigabits of data every second" So a 90min film with no compression at full cinema quality would take up, 3.22TB? ((5000 [gigabits per second] / 8 [to convert to MB]) * 60 [seconds in a minute] * 90 [minutes])/(1024^2 [to get the final figure in TB]) That right? Anyway I think it shows there is still someway to go!
Its higher than DVD for sure, and if its truly 16x higher than any broadcast tv, its higher than those Dad. HDTV makes sense, but this level is simply unused power. When technology gets to the point where broadcasts are at that level, or the media is at that level, then perhaps. Hell, it would be a total waste in my house anyway, as little as we watch tv or movies.
All this sounds like is another gimmick really - no-one will buy it yet anyway; only the craziest japanese people with nothing better to do than watch TV for the hours they're not at work. It's far too high quality to be practical for world-broadcast, it'd probably need a full satellite network just for it's own purposes. One day... when we're all driving electric hover cars and have robot butlers and those cool bubble pipes: then i'll go home and watch my USMMDTV (Ultra-Super-Mega-Monster-definition-TeleVision) which actually has a higher quality than life, sitting in my armchair made of a trillion little foam balls that holds itself together then collapses into an interesting indoor garden when i go out...
I can see good reasons for another upgrade, 625 lines came in 20 years ago here when screens were a lot smaller. But 4000 seems a tad OTT We let some other sucker get their system to market, then invent a better version (like NICAM stereo) so we can sneer at them.
