Thanks guys, this is all your fault.

[Obin Olson]

ahhahahahha!! "honestly" speaking 10 years ago folks said they "did not see the point" for 1080p!!!

same thing. all over again.

count me IN. I'll be shooting UHD all day long, I just hope it's in a gyro stabilized lipstick cam.

I honestly don't see the point.

A lot of people can't see the difference between 720p and 1080p on 100" screens. 2K 3K and 4K are right out. 8K? Really? I don't think it will sell.

I'd rather see 1080 consumer displays mature. I'd like to see true 60p display, and real 10+ bit panels in consumer devices before we move on. Also, how about 1080p OLED TV's at 50+ inches for under $2000 USD?

How about we get SD broadcast completely behind us for a good long while before we start looking at "new standards."

How about we get laptop computers that can process 4K RAW footage in realtime. Pentium 4 and G4 laptops could do that with SD footage, and look at how hard the HD transition was.

How about getting the bandwidth to deliver 1080p over the Internet at BlueRay or better quality?

Maybe it isn't pemature to start thinking about UHD, but I foresee 2K and 1080p delivery for quite some time. More than a decade in any case.

 

[Radoslav Karapetkov]

Pixel count is increasing, but creativity is obviously decreasing...

 

[Steven Caesare]

I'll just chime in to say that it was cool to see that in the article they ued the Red One image resolution as one of the rectangles in their little comparison graphic.

One tends to only use something well-known when making comparisons... the brand recognition Red has built is showing...

-sc

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Video is in the same sort of place. What bothers me most about 1080p displays is (in no particular order)low contrast ratios, bad color representation, banding, compression, interlace, response time, color gamut... it goes on and on.

Contrast - new plasmas - almost there, with OLED around the corner = soon done = CHECK
Color representation - consumer purpose = CHECK, Professional = needs better calibrating after which = CHECK
Banding = CHECK, check source material and feed all the way to the panel input
Compression - has nothing to do with panel
Interlace - also
Response time = CHECK - depending on model
Color gamut - consumer = CHECK, pro = needs mapping

Not speaking about low end panels, of course.

 

[Yousuf Abbasi]

Steve, I beg to differ.

At the aforementioned BBC demo they showcased a monitor that was maybe 40" big, but 4k. What was amazing that you could not see a single pixel. It was more like a window in the wall.

There def. is a difference between 1080p and 4k.

The first time my girlfriend saw an HDTV she said it looked like a window in the wall, which creeped her out. I'm sure the same can be said going from 1080 to 4k.

Here's an idea, if you want super hi-res and not notice a single pixel, just buy a really small screen that plays 1080p footage! Oh wait, people also want bigger screens...