is 5K enough..??

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

speaking future proof..

its seems that the world will be moving to 8K resolution for acquisition and display..

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/01/nhk-develops-ultra-high-def-camcorder-with-single-33-megapixel-s/

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/sharp-shows-off-the-worlds-first-super-hi-vision-lcd-with-16x-m/

I don't know if this has been discussed before, its just too new to me..

how many years left for 4K? they say by 2020 we'll be seeing 8K broadcasts..

any opinions..

EDITL ahh, sorry, found it.. http://reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?59414-Sharp-s-8k-TV
admins plz delete if useless..

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Well, to me it is a point to use tools available to me now for doing stuff now, rather than playing the waiting game because some even more amzing tool is on the horizon.

That'll never make me good at anything!

That's probably why I loved and learned so much from the glorious PD-150 back in its day...

 

[Vico Martin]

Thanks for the links!

"Enough" does not apply with resolution.

5K is enough to get a 4K RGB 4:4:4 image. IMHO.

 

[Joe D'Arcy]

5K is more than enough until someone releases a 6k or 8k (with some built in focus assist). Black and white movies used to be more than enough until some techno genius upset the applecart. Personally I'm more than happy with 4k but I will invest in an Epic.
Joe

 

[Kaku Ito]

Shooting in 4K with RED ONE then finish in even 2K, projecting the DCP final to Sony 4K SXRD projector looks very sharp ( I hear Sony is sharper than other 4K projectors).

 

[paulherrin]

always going to be advances in technology. it's important to stay up to date and ahead of the curve, but it's just as important to simply not worry so much about things that aren't here yet.

 

[Solomon Nero]

This is why RED has RED DRAGON in the works...it WILL keep evolving

 

[Ravi Kiran]

5K is more than enough until someone releases a 6k or 8k (with some built in focus assist). Black and white movies used to be more than enough until some techno genius upset the applecart. Personally I'm more than happy with 4k but I will invest in an Epic.
Joe

For acquisition yes. For display? I don't know. Unless every movie screen becomes an IMAX-sized screen, I can't imagine that display resolutions are going to be forever spiraling upwards. Given the average theater screen size, I wonder if people would be able to tell the difference between 4K and anything higher.

 

[Mark Collins]

All of this talk of 5K and 8K and massive resolution is sweet and all, but the big failing is in delivery. You wanna download an 8K feature length film eh? Say goodbye to your harddrive space and your internet for a few days. We don't have a physical delivery system that's practical to deliver that. You can't deliver a movie to the masses on 1TB harddrives now can you?

These resolutions are theatre resolutions, not home entertainment.

 

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

All of this talk of 5K and 8K and massive resolution is sweet and all, but the big failing is in delivery. You wanna download an 8K feature length film eh? Say goodbye to your harddrive space and your internet for a few days. We don't have a physical delivery system that's practical to deliver that. You can't deliver a movie to the masses on 1TB harddrives now can you?

These resolutions are theatre resolutions, not home entertainment.

2020 is a long way away in tech terms, by the time 8k is anywhere near deliverable we'll probably scoff at 1TB in the same way that we scoff at 1MB today.

 

[Sam Eilertsen]

With these higher and higher resolutions, one starts to wonder when we'll hit the limit of human perception and consumers will stop caring. I mean, maybe you can tell the difference between 4K and 8K on an IMAX screen, but on a household display?

 

[Felix K.]

Image set aside; the second article talks about a 22.2-channel sound system. My question: WHY WOULD YOU NEED THAT?? Oh, and I got an answer as well: YOU DON'T!

 

[Solomon Nero]

With these higher and higher resolutions, one starts to wonder when we'll hit the limit of human perception and consumers will stop caring. I mean, maybe you can tell the difference between 4K and 8K on an IMAX screen, but on a household display?

In a home theater standpoint totally agree, but in a theater standpoint, I disagree, your average movie-goer wont be able to tell the difference as in...what specifically looks better, but they will be able to tell that "something" is different, it just looks great! You and I will know that there is a different bit-rate or resolution difference, but the consumer will just know that it looks so real, or something like that, ya know? But in a home theater setting, they wont justify spending more money on something else unless its noticeably different.