Is 4K a game changer?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by JayEmm

Netflix (rightly so) saw this as a massive cheat, so have banned people from using that on their shows where 4K is a requirement.

Bayer Patterning is too complex to try and explain in a post here, but long story short your TV has a red,green and a blue sub-pixel for every pixel on the screen (if you've never seen them, just walk up very close to it - easier in the SDTV days!). Cameras can only have each pixel red OR blue OR green - so there's a fair bit of guesswork involved in creating colour and resolution suffers. Hence cameras with three chips (one each of red,green,blue).

Sounds like you were present at the Television Academy’s professional development event back in July of 2014……or caught the panel discussion later on the internet where thee actual math was delved into with more detail.

ray (from Michigan?), if you’re truly interested in learning more, I recommend this reference by Dave Stump (chair of the ASC camera subcommittee)….http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Cinema.../dp/0240817915 as it’s not a difficult read.