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That’s now the official name for the next generation of television sets that will offer so-called 4K images — 8M pixels of resolution — the Consumer Electronics Association just announced. “Ultra HD is the next natural step forward in display technologies, offering consumers an incredibly immersive viewing experience with outstanding new levels of picture quality,” CEA chief Gary Shapiro says. “This new terminology and the recommended attributes will help consumers navigate the marketplace to find the TV that best meets their needs.” The trade organization’s CEA Ultra HD Working Group says that Ultra High Definition TVs, monitors and projectors must offer at least 3,840 active pixels horizontally and 2,160 vertically with an aspect ratio of 16 X 9. To secure an official “Ultra HD” endorsement, devices also must have at least one digital input that can accept 4K video without having to up-convert the signal. CEA says it expects Ultra HD televisions to be prominent at its January trade show in Las Vegas where manufacturers unveil their hottest new consumer electronics gadgets.
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I know people who have yet to convert to simple HD…and these sets will most likely cost somewhere in the $20,000-30,000 range.
This puts the nail in BluRay – right?
In about 10 years.
Enjoy the ride.
Nice. But when will someone upgrade the sound speakers on the TV. I am tired of not hearing the dialog while going deaf from the soundtracks and commercials.
I agree, the sound system has never kept up with the picture quality lets work on that……..
I would probably invest in a sound system, then. If you pay a couple of grand for a tv, doesn’t it make sense to fork over a couple of hundred (at least) so you can hear it?
By the same measure – if you pay a couple grand for a TV – should you be ok with it sounding like crap?
Ready, willing and able.
What will this do to all of the previous TV programs that are in standard def? They will look horrible on these new TVs. And what about all of the DVD’s that people have?
The idea of these TVs is great but the reality is that they are going to decimate the TV industry and syndication.
“but the reality is that they are going to decimate the TV industry and syndication”
Can you not be a negative thinker please.
the reality is you have not a clue, when VHS was replaced by higher res DVD’s for example did the industry get “decimated”
how many examples do you require to see “the big picture”?
wait your negative so you do require more, ill provide one more because I need sleep, ready? when the industry went from black and white to color was the industry “decimated”
your negative so ill answer for you, the answer is NO it will not in fact it will flourish.
How do you figure? If anything, it will propel Bluray sales since they will be one of the few formats that can hold enough information required for that high of a resolution
This puts the nail in blu ray the same way that blu ray put the nail in DVD. Expect similar to blu ray 3d upgrades for the next stage of blu ray capable of carrying upto and beyond 100gb of data.
DVD is far from dead since blu ray is capable and the quality is acceptable for many. Don’t expect the DVD to be phased out for atleast 5 years while blu ray easily has another 10 in it.
Competitors may emerge but when the market is run by a monopoly it’s hard to shift the market away from it.
Ultra HD is almost pointless, unless you’ve got a 100+ inch screen. Most people can’t tell the difference between 720 and 1080, you think 2,160 is really needed. I’m guessing people will fork over the money, though, because they think they aren’t seeing the best quality, when in fact their brains can’t even tell the difference.
BINGO!
The trick will be having quality scaling electronics to make up-converted signals look good. This has long been the issue with HDTVs, and why some cost much more than others. Also with a growing segment of people streaming media via the internet, the demand put on internet connections and servers make streaming 4k reliably seem unlikely.
4k for capture has it’s upsides but that is a different issue.
Well, this could be the nail in the coffin of standard def DVDs; but Bluray wouldn’t be going away. Instead, it would probably just make Bluray and HDTVs in general more affordable.
That said, how much more clear do we honestly want our video? We can already see the actual pores on someone’s face; will Ultra HD allow us to see a silhouette of their skeletal structure or something?
I wonder when the resolution will get to be too much for the makeup and photography skills of the production crews. Already at 1080p it makes some films and tv look like they star over-painted mannequins shot with a video recorder. For sports and nature stuff, etc., super-high resolution is fantastic. Not always for other types of productions tho.
That’s actually due to the “frame rate” or hz. If you set your set to 120hz, you get clear and life-like sports, news, and any other show shot with the “video look”. But that’s when the other shows lose their “film look”. To preserve the film look, set your set to 60hz.
This seems kind of pointless when broadcasters can’t even get regular HD right – too much compression in order to squeeze in all the sub-channels or more sat. stations. I know that’s not the same thing as an UHD “source,” but still.
Saving for it and waiting for the new movie format yet to be released that would use that
insane resolution to blow out the water our local cinemas.
I’m tired of the tech marketers always giving us misinformation. They told us 1080p was as good a resolution as film, then as time went on the “good as film” pixel requirement kept going up and up. Would I have to rebuy every movie and tv show I own for this 4K tv? Given how many people can’t tell the difference between 720 and 1080, or even the difference between DVD and Blu Ray, I don’t see this becoming anything other than a niche product for wealthy people with amazing home theatre setups. But even they won’t have a lot of movies or shows to really take advantage of the tech.
They re-configured all those 3D sets no one bought…hahahaha…these won’t sell either…hahahahahahaha
In one word the actress, “MAKEUP!”
How about the cablecos, satcos, & telcos start broadcasting in 1080p FIRST? They cant even show all my channels, or most of them, in simple HD yet-but NOW theyre planning on 4X Ultra? Not for a long time, kids, so lets crawl before we walk.
And, BTW, Stanndard def TV’s AND regular DVD’s ARE passe-who the HELL wants to watch them when you have Blu-Ray, HD, and 3D!