1440p

[dpomp]

Originally Posted by 95pgtproject

I heard the ps6 is 1400000p

do you remember back when the ps2 came out and they had that comercial about the ps9. and at the end it said ps2: the beginning. that was the best comercial ever!

[kjack]

From what I've seen, the next step will be the Digital Cinema 2K format, then the 4K format at some point.

Don't confuse display resolution with content/distribution resolution. Displays can do whatever they want by scaling.

[richteer]

Originally Posted by Sean4000

But there has to be a cap on how much the brain can intake at one time. 4K is a lot of pixels.

Don't underestimate the brain's abilities. As for resolution, consider that profressional DLSRs offer 21 megapixels resolution *today*. Who knows how many they'll be offering in 5 years?

[Eddie who?]

Are we talking about the ratio of major advancements in home theatre /exhibition technology versus A. The willingness of the masses to keep purchasing that technology faster than it can be marketed or B. The need for the masses to purchase said technology?

If 1440p was a reality right now, meaning that our ps3's could display that resolution, and Blu-ray had the ability to encode their discs at that resolution, would people want that instead of 1080?

Or, would the FCC put their foot down and say: "Only one major advancement at a time, boys."

[kjack]

FCC has nothing to do with this, as long as it's not broadcast over the air.

[tron3]

Originally Posted by Eddie who?

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If 1440p was a reality right now, meaning that our ps3's could display that resolution, and Blu-ray had the ability to encode their discs at that resolution, would people want that instead of 1080?
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D'uh. Not poking fun a you. Someone will always want it. Since the inception of HDTV the studios have been slow to implement the hardware because it costs them millions. I don't see more than a few stations providing that kind of content. Heck, around here all of the old analog UHF stations have only moved to digital 480i. It appears that analog TV is going away soon, but 480i is not.

[zoon_ii]

Originally Posted by sean10mm

4k is about 11.5 megapixels.

Each human eye is effectively about 125 megapixels. Each eye has about 125,000,000 photoreceptors that can respond to single photons.

There is still a lot of room for improvement.

now THAT'S what i'm talking about! hmmm....see...being an adult right now kinda pisses me off, because when i'm 70 or 80, all the good shi+ is going to be comin onto the scene, and i'll be leaving the scene. here's to hopin that reincarnation is truth.

[zoon_ii]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

How you can post this, and yet claim that 50" is a magical border between 1080p being fine and not good enough is beyond me.

i don't know about you, but if i buy a 50 in or larger tv, i sure as hell am not restructuring the layout of my living room to get the "best viewing distance."

to me, that's dumb, WHY in the HELL would you want to sit farther away from a larger screen?

to me, when you are sitting further away from a larger screen, you are proportionatley keeping the screen size the same as if you were sitting closer to a smaller tele. sorta defeats the point of buying a big screen tv dontcha think?

i want my field of vision enveloped, not the same as what was provided by my older model.

[Dave]

Originally Posted by 95pgtproject

I heard the ps6 is 1400000p

You are laughing but i have watched 1440p on my 2560x1600 screen and i was stunned.

[181]

1080p will be around for at least 10 years. corporations are training consumers to look for these key words and probably don't want to confuse the average buyer with new terminology. I doubt the average consumer knows what 1080p represents, aside from it being "hi-def" and better than dvd. like another poster said, 1440p is a half step that will not go anywhere.

[Manco]

I heard POTC 3 is only 1080i. How long before we get a 1080p version??

[bageleaterkkjji]

Originally Posted by sean10mm

4k is about 11.5 megapixels.

Each human eye is effectively about 125 megapixels. Each eye has about 125,000,000 photoreceptors that can respond to single photons.

There is still a lot of room for improvement.

and i suppose someone counted all those...rrright

[TheEnd187]

Originally Posted by WickyWoo

It's going to take at least another decade to get a 720p minimum set in 85% of households (mass penetration).

1440p is not going to be anything but an extra feature for gamers on the highest of high end TVs and on computer monitors. Sure you might see it for professional installations, but not for the consumer market software

My PC Monitor is already 1600P running at 2600x1600, wasn't Toshiba supposed to release XHD TV sets this year? and OT but WTF happened to Laser TV's they were due Holiday season 07

[tron3]

Originally Posted by zoon_ii

now THAT'S what i'm talking about! hmmm....see...being an adult right now kinda pisses me off, because when i'm 70 or 80, all the good shi+ is going to be comin onto the scene, and i'll be leaving the scene. here's to hopin that reincarnation is truth.

My grandmother died January 2002. Never got to see hi def. Her mind was half gone anyways, but still. I don't think she even saw TV until she got to America. Even then, it was B&W.

Be glad for the experiences you have. Many of us here will recall the days when we had no tv, or the first one was a 13" b&W, and how great it was to go to color. Then say how thrilled we were with VHS and renting and buying movies. Young kids will think we lived in the dark ages.

Because of my brother I now have a 26" LCD tv in my bedroom. Who knows how long it would have been before I did that myself. Nice gift.

[ezcobar411]

Because I've only recently bought a HDTV (1080p) I doubt I'll be upgrading for a while. I think maybe 2010 or 2011, maybe

[Terjyn]

Originally Posted by zoon_ii

i don't know about you, but if i buy a 50 in or larger tv, i sure as hell am not restructuring the layout of my living room to get the "best viewing distance."

to me, that's dumb, WHY in the HELL would you want to sit farther away from a larger screen?

to me, when you are sitting further away from a larger screen, you are proportionatley keeping the screen size the same as if you were sitting closer to a smaller tele. sorta defeats the point of buying a big screen tv dontcha think?

i want my field of vision enveloped, not the same as what was provided by my older model.

What's your point?

I was taking exception to nothing other than the claim that 1080p is fine up until 50 inches, but above 50 requires more.

That's a completely asinine claim.

[statikcat]

I dont think much advancements in resolution will be made. I think advancements in media in terms of reaching uncompressed video will be the next logical stage to go.

DVD was the same for over 10 years. So dont expect 1440p to be around for awhile. Whatever the next standard is (probably BD) will exist for a long time. People are still catching up to 1080p at their homes.

The 1440p will be more common in computer monitors first. Higher resolution and more screen space there is always changing.. and video cards already support resolutions in the 2500's.

[statikcat]

Originally Posted by zoon_ii View Post
i don't know about you, but if i buy a 50 in or larger tv, i sure as hell am not restructuring the layout of my living room to get the "best viewing distance."

to me, that's dumb, WHY in the HELL would you want to sit farther away from a larger screen?

to me, when you are sitting further away from a larger screen, you are proportionatley keeping the screen size the same as if you were sitting closer to a smaller tele. sorta defeats the point of buying a big screen tv dontcha think?

i want my field of vision enveloped, not the same as what was provided by my older model.

Actually a big/main advantage to a big tv is your can sit back further. To an extent a larger tv at a closer distance just makes the picture worse. Once you pass 40" or so bigger tvs are made so you can sit farther. My dad for example gets 50"+ tvs because he sits a good distance back due to large living room.

A bigger tv does NOT mean a better picture!

[jorg]

Originally Posted by Azumi

No, it won't. The likeliness of 1440p in the near future is a financial aberration.

Imagine that last year, the installed base of 16:9 TVs in the main European markets was close to 20 percent. Not flat screens, I'm talking about SD and HD sets! It took 10 years of DVD and satellite programming, so that 1 household out of 5 had a 16:9 TV in Western Europe.

Imagine the ratio for the entire planet. It would be like, 1 or 2 percent?

My point is that putting HD screens into people's homes is perhaps the most gigantic project that Consumer Electronics undertook in all times. It will be years and years before 1080p televisions become commonplace in our homes. You can bet that CE and entertainment industries won't attempt another upgrade during our generations.

The same reasoning goes for content. TV channels can't handle 1080p yet -- too much data to encode in real time and too much data to broadcast. As for HDM, they're already trying very hard to get Blu-ray past the 1 or 2% DVD market share.

1440p is nothing but a wild dream in the R&D labs. I remember visiting the Thomson CE labs in the early Nineties, where they were already testing blue laser technology. Look at how long it took before it became industrially and financially viable.

in japan blu-ray had like 23% of dvd market share in japan in the use hdm is like 5% of market share

[zoon_ii]

Originally Posted by Terjyn

What's your point?

I was taking exception to nothing other than the claim that 1080p is fine up until 50 inches, but above 50 requires more.

That's a completely asinine claim.

actually, i think my point makes sense. why buy a bigger tele only to sit back farther from it than you did your smaller tele?

if you want to get technical, i would think that the distance you sit from an i-max theatre is probably "technically" not far enough considering the size of the screen.

BUT, they also have projectors that do 2k or 4k...whatever the standard is.

your point and mine are totally different.

if you were offended, then i apologize.

but what you said brought up something in my head and i thought i would share.