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Ultra HDTV on Display for the First Time
fdiskne1 writes "According to a story by the BBC, the successor to HDTV is already out there. The resolution? 7680 x 4320 pixels. Despite the 'wow' factor, the only screens capable of using Ultra High Definition Television are large movie screens, and no television channel has the bandwidth needed for this image. Some experts, in fact, say the technology is only a novelty. Until the rest of the necessary technology catches up, the only foreseen use for Ultra HDTV is in movie theatres and museum video archives." From the article: "Dr. Masaru Kanazawa, one of NHK's senior research engineers, helped develop the technology. He told the BBC News website: 'When we designed HDTV 40 years ago our target was to make people feel like they were watching the real object. Our target now is to make people feel that they are in the scene.' As well as the higher picture resolution, the Ultra HD standard incorporates an advanced version of surround sound that uses 24 loudspeakers. "
And i just bought an HDTV last week.
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I want to see if it looks better than my computer monitor resolution.
640 (by 480) ought to be enough for anyone...
This guy's the limit!
The inventors were overheard as saying; "Big deal. IT'S THE CONTENT STUPID!"
Atleast books will always have a higher (mental) resolution, it's to bad nobody reads anymore.
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you wait 40 years to upgrade and a week later you're obsolete.
what I hate about TV is how the specs are so hardware-dependent. all kinds of numbers and letters and if it differs by 1 character your thousands of dollars might have been wasted.
imo it should be more like computers: you basically have a processor that determines your data processing and a display device that determines your viewable resolution. almost everything else is software and thus improvements are continuous and ongoing. it's a much better model than upgrading every couple of decades, with a half-decade period when your TV is too good for the signal.
once TV is based on more internet-like digital technologies this will hopefully happen.
Seriously people, if you want REAL, then go OUTSIDE. That is true reality, you smell, taste, and see it all, with a unlimited resolution.
No, see you're missing the point. I don't want REAL LIFE. I want LIFELIKE. Because let's face it, no matter what happens in real life, I doubt I'm ever gonna have the opportunity to bend Elisha Cuthbert over the closest piece of furniture and give her the worst 30 seconds of her life.
But if we can make screens mimic reality, then we're one step closer to every twisted geek's fantasy - the Holodeck. And I guarantee you, Holodeck-Elisha is more open to experimentation. One just has to hope that Real-Holographic-Simulated-Evil-Lincoln doesn't spring to life and goes on a rampage, wrecking the ambience.
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The $3000 version of the PS4 is built specifically for Ultra HDTV! Pre-order now!
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They should've called it "Very HD" and saved "Ultra HD" for the next one.
No, see you're missing the point. I don't want REAL LIFE. I want LIFELIKE.
You remind of something local journalists in my country started using way too much in news reports, odd given it's a nonsense.
They like to say that some actual event that happened in our actual world is "like a real reality show"...
"Driving on the roads with your car is like a real reality show".
There should honestly be minimal intelligence requirements for one to be a reporter, I think.
You think that is something. I'd like to see if they could transfer over the "Stones at the MAX" they did of the Rolling Stones concert (Steel Wheels?) in IMAX. I swear, they did a couple shots, and you could swear you were falling down through one of the cracks in Keith Richards' face...scary realistic.
Ah Keith...God bless him...the human riff. And to think, after the nuclear wars all that will be left is him and cockroaches.....
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
it is not possible to resolve individual pixels in an 8x10 photo printed at VGA resolution held 10 meters away
This is Slashdot, where a legitimate reply involves the word "binoculars."
StoneCypher is Full of BS