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3D, 3G, 4G, Pishaw! 4K!

ercoerco Posts: 20,259
edited 2012-08-31 10:26 in General Discussion
http://news.yahoo.com/forget-3d--your-dream-tv-should-be-4k.html

The new latest. Until the next latest.

I still prefer my Philco Predicta! http://www.cedmagic.com/history/philco-predicta-princess.html

Comments

  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2012-08-30 20:06
    Will they be able to push the capacity of Blu-ray disks high enough to store a 4k resolution movie on? Currently most movies are on 2 layer 25GB per layer disks. I think they can make them up to 4 layers for 128GB total, but this doesn't seem like enough capacity. I haven't seen anything about increasing the density, just the number of layers. Maybe something like a 256GB SDHC memory card will be needed? Or possibly just skip local storage and stream everything. Maybe forget about the individual disk concept and just put a couple of multi-terabyte hard drives in the TV?
  • SRLMSRLM Posts: 5,045
    edited 2012-08-30 20:44
    Good. Maybe finally we will have monitors that can properly be called "desktops".
  • Peter KG6LSEPeter KG6LSE Posts: 1,383
    edited 2012-08-30 22:25
    I have played with it in Final cut pro for time lapst stuff .. Not consumer ready yet format wars ! and other issues .
  • TubularTubular Posts: 4,706
    edited 2012-08-30 22:33
    Those marketing folks stretch the definition of 4K to less than 4K pixels (it's 3840 isn't it? Not 4000 nor 4096)

    Then again the same marketing folks are missing a big opportunity to declare it "now with 300% more pixels than full HD". What gives?
  • doggiedocdoggiedoc Posts: 2,245
    edited 2012-08-31 03:41
    From the article:
    Samsung showed off other TV tricks, as well. One lets two people watch two different shows at the same time. The images for one show alternate with the images for the other at an extremely high speed. Each person wears 3D glasses that have tiny shutters inside that flicker in time with their show's images.
    Now that is ingenious!

    Paul
  • tonyp12tonyp12 Posts: 1,951
    edited 2012-08-31 08:20
    > One lets two people watch two different shows at the same time

    I saw that at CES, it’s just using the same tech as 3D, two different pictures alternating.
    And in this case the glasses is in a mode where it shutter both eyes.

    But one thing they can not do is alternating the audio, so you have to wear headsets.
  • ercoerco Posts: 20,259
    edited 2012-08-31 10:09
    One lets two people watch two different shows at the same time...

    How in the heck did our family of 7 ever survive the 60's with just one black & white, low-res, low-def, zero K, MONO, non Bluetooth, non-Tivo, non streaming, analog CRT television using vacuum tubes that would occasionally burn out?
  • RDL2004RDL2004 Posts: 2,554
    edited 2012-08-31 10:17
    Other than the nightly news, Saturday morning cartoons, and a few shows sprinkled through the week, we just ignored the thing. It would actually be turned off most of the time. Sunday night was pretty big though.
  • PublisonPublison Posts: 12,366
    edited 2012-08-31 10:26
    erco wrote: »
    One lets two people watch two different shows at the same time...

    How in the heck did our family of 7 ever survive the 60's with just one black & white, low-res, low-def, zero K, MONO, non Bluetooth, non-Tivo, non streaming, analog CRT television using vacuum tubes that would occasionally burn out?

    I just spent time in the basement making Jacob's Ladders and listening to Shortwave Radio. The Jacob's Ladder made sure no one could watch TV. :)
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