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The Next Video Format War Coming To a Home Theater Near You: 4K vs FauxK

Jannard said:
The war won't be QuadHD vs. 4096... both will work. The war will be what kind of compression and data rate will be acceptable for delivering either type of 4K.

Jim
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Are we talking about a new compression format like VC-2?:emote_couch:
 
Gavin Greenwalt said:
I still think HD-DVD won. I have 50+ HD-DVDs and 4 Blu-Rays. :D

$2 firesales! Lots of great films that play perfectly fine on obsolete format that until recently still had the best transfers and compression haha.
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Me too, I bought several hd-dvd players a few years ago on ebay for $60 when the BR players were still $300 - and a bunch of those $2 HD-DVDs

I Now have a couple Bluray players since the price is down to $89, but still only a few blu-ray discs.
 
I radical idea: to hell with displays. The problem with even 16:9 displays is that to show a 2.4:1 presentation, you are using fewer pixels, which should be the opposite. And it's a smaller image which should be the opposite. Projectors are the money-melon.

The next TV I buy won't be a plasma or an LCD - it will be a projector. They won't necessarily solve the resolution problem but they will solve the image size problem.

RANT MODE: ON. Computers of course will be LCDs but I'm starting to wish I had a CRT now (for photography). Sometimes new technology brings two problems for every one problem solved. Power efficiency? Screw that - how about just watching less TV in the first place??
 
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