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Stinky-Dinkins
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Hi Definition adopters food for thought
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Date created
12-May-2007, 12:58 AM
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Originally posted by: Stinky-Dinkins
The ultra HD stuff is only useful for large movie theater screens.

It's difficult to discern the difference between 720p and 1080p on a 50 inch screen for the vast, vast majority of eyes (especially taking into account the "average consumer,") if you think consumer home devices with "ultra HD" resolution are anywhere on the horizon you just don't know much about HT in general. Why? It would be outrageously expensive for the consumer, it would be outrageously expensive for the manufacturer (in addition to providing no real visual benefit,) 720p, 1080i, and 1080p have already cemented themselves as “the” HD formats for consumer HD material (1080i and sometimes 720p for broadcast and 1080p home video,) broadcasters would NEVER be able to provide the bandwidth for resolutions that immense, and you wouldn't see a damn bit of difference on most for-use-in-home screens between the HD now and the “ultra crazy stuff” you're talking about. On a spec sheet the differences appear to be gigantic, in practice that could not be further from the truth.


Right now. Never is a long time. I have no doubt that within 10 years, maybe 20 at the most, 1080p will seem like analog broadcast. Those giant resolutions are only expensive until there's a cheap way to get it to the consumer.

I'm sure that when color televisions were introduced, people thought "Well, I doubt it'll ever get better than this". That is, consumers probably thought that. Every step makes it look a little better. I expect to see much higher resolutions being totally pervasive in the next 10 years. And with better mediums for transmission, there'll be plenty of bandwidth to push the content.

I don't think you're understanding me, the issue of expense is not the "make or break" issue here.

The differences in resolution you're referring to are NOT perceptible to the human eye when implemented on a consumer TV set (because the screens are too small for the increased resolution to be appreciated,) it's an issue of diminishing returns. Unless you plan on inventing and distributing new sets wacky robot eyes to everyone on the planet or convince everyone watching TV to sit no more than 6 inches from their screens then no - it just won't happen within the next several decades. THese extreme resolutions are only able to be considered when dealing with very large theater (non in the home) screens.

It is absolutely nothing like the difference between a black and white image and a colorized image, that is instantly noticeable to any non-colorblind viewer.