Enter The 2160p HDTV

Dr. Eggman writes "The Consumer Electronics Show is kicking it in high gear as Westinghouse shows off its 2160p or "Quad" HDTV. While enthusiasts pine for new 1080p monitors Westinghouse has stated that the Quad HDTVs, like the 52" on display, "does not really target the consumer market, but high-end industrial applications.""

Comments

How to feed it ?

[Rastignac]

What can one use to feed this beast ? Where to find very-very-HD contents ? (And what about the huge bandwidth and the huge storage needed ?).

Re:How to feed it ?

[Erwos]

Content will always catch up. I remember when HDTVs first came out, people would whine constantly about the lack of even native 720p source material - you had your computer's output, and that was about it. But, after a while, content did catch up, and you can easily find 720p and 1080p source material - even streamed over the net. Same thing for this - for now, it'll be driven with dual-link or quad-link DVI. But in the future, if this hits the consumer-space, we'll see full-res content for it - I'm somewhat sure you can get that much resolution out of a new film transfer.

Re:How to feed it ?

[iamdrscience]

They say it's not really a consumer device, so I would assume, if you had any use for a display like this, you would also be generating whatever content it would be displaying. The use that comes to my mind most easily would be people editing films. If you're working with a very high-def version of a movie that will eventually be transferred to film or projected with a very high-def digital projector, then it would be nice to see what the film is really going to look like with the definition those formats will have.

Another thing though is that media always lags behind the hardware to utilize it.

Re:How to feed it ?

[Kjella]

Ehm... that'd be four Blu-Ray or HD-DVD players, please. Four DVD players I can do with my current screen...

What he really means to say

[Bacon Bits]

"[D]oes not really target the consumer market, but high-end industrial applications." Translation: "It's damn expensive right now, and we can't produce enough of them at consumer prices to make a profit."

Way to go Westinghouse

[AnnuitCoeptis]

1280x1024 (1.3 MPix)
1920x1200 (2.2 MPix)
2560x1600 (4 Mpix)
3840x2160 (8 MPix) => would be nice for our current 8Mpix Nikon photowork


See, from the photographer's point of view any current consumer LCD is inferior (safe to rare Mac/Dell 30" 2560x1600 displays), but this Westinghouse offering would be really nice.

Stop upping the resolution...

[JFMulder]

... and bring us HDR dammit!

Re:I believe

[Jugalator]

Christ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein-coated_disc

Bring me an edit window of at least 30 secs, Slashdot?

Clever marketing...

[inviolet]

Westinghouse has stated that the Quad HDTVs, like the 52" on display, "does not really target the consumer market, but high-end industrial applications."

They make statements like this in order to position themselves at the high end of the consumer market. After all, the overmonied folks in the high end of the consumer market invariably fancy themselves "above the consumer market".

Absolute Statements are dangerous

[suggsjc]

and none are or will be higher than 1080p for the next decade at least

Although it *may* be a safe statement, a decade is a long time in the tech industry. I'd be careful with absolute statements...but since your not backing/betting/advocating a specific product, then I hope for all of us, your wrong.


2008 - Quantum Computing breakthrough
2010 - Virtual Reality nears reality
2012 - Mulit-TB personal storage
2013 - 3D Displays begin to go mainstream
2015 - Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft ready 4th gen consoles
2016 - Duke Nukem Forever FINALLY released, but still only VGA resolution
2017 - /.'er looks back to realize that post 10 years ago was mistake...

I could have also put down for each year that /. predicts the "year of the linux desktop" but would have detracted from the overall post.