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Sharp Demos 4K TV

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Samsung demonstrated a 4K panel several months ago... They are releasing it into production sometime this year at 46" panel size. A 32" 4K panel is also planned, but no timeframe is known and it will be one of the first introductory products to their high-density TFT product line that pushes current TFT panels from ~100ppi to over 220ppi.

Some vendors, including Sharp, Samsung and LG were championing the new UDI interface standard at CES. Look to see more 4K stuff as well as a bigger UDI movement this year at NAB. :D

By this time next year I should have my RED One and hopefully a monitor that can let me see all of those pixels in a 4K frame. Ooooooooh, please let it be so....
 
I think that the problem that the film industry would have with something like this is that if consumers can view a movie at the same quality at home as they would in the theaters, then they're more likely to stay at home. This was why movies opted for the wide screen format after TV came into existence.

Also I think it's possible that TV viewing of this quality will make it less likely for independent films to be brought to the theatres and instead just be put straight to "ultraDef" Blu-Ray.


just my thoughts...although that is really cool.
 
Of course, I guess that would mean that we as filmmakers would have to work that much harder in order for quality work to make it into the cinemas. :D
 
I don't buy into all those arguments about Hollywood and the home theatre eating away at theatrical attendence. A lot of people go to the movies because they enjoy seeing a new film on a huge screen along with 150 other people sitting around them. I don't think that's going to change anytime soon... We heard all these same arguments with the release of TV, the VCR, then DVD, then HDTV, etc..

Just like any other industry, Hollywood will also continue to adapt and evolve. I would say innovate, but that's not Hollywood's strongest ability... However, they have been known to do just that when the need arises.
 
I don't know many people with huge cinema screens at home, 46-50 inch screens are no match for a night out at the flicks.
 
Does anyone have an idea how much those 4k monitors will cost?
 
With DVD and a decent projector, you can already enjoy movies at home to a much greater extent than in the cinema.

Graeme
 
Well, I have a pretty big house compared to many. And no walls here facilitate a projected image as large as the local cineplex - not even close. :D

But I do agree, with a good projector and sound system in the home, the experience can be excellent. So I don't have to deal with the screaming infant 4 rows behind me and all that stuff... Instead I can just deal with the screaming children at home. Hehe Oh, and my chairs are a lot more comfortable and my popcorn doesn't suck. It doesn't cost $12 to fill a large bowl and have a soda with it either.

I'm going to finish out my basement sometime in the next year or so and would like to build a theatre room with a projector. I'm really hoping that 4K projection will become somewhat affordable in the next few years so I can have a screening room for what I shoot with RED. Ooooh, the possibilities.
 
You don't need it to be that big - you just sit closer to the screen. You can make the angle of view similar in even quite a small room.

Graeme
 
Nothing compares to going to the movies and nothing ever will - It would be like saying, "This great new ipod9000 player sounds so good, I will never go to another concert again." There's something exciting when you see a movie with a packed house of total strangers - I think thats why theaters will always be around and people will always go to them. Hollywood should model their approach for the 21st century to follow along the lines of what Soderbergh did for his last flick, Bubble - Almost simultaneous releases for the DVD, online and theater.
 
What?

What?

You don't need it to be that big - you just sit closer to the screen.
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What? We all need big 4K screens. This is America. I need a big 4K screen and Big Gulp the size of my head.

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In the year 2010, you’ll be watching 4k video.
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You’ll be able to watch footage shot with the mystical Red One camera natively in your living room
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Sharp and RED making my dreams come true, and Seven Eleven.
 
Wow, didn't realize 4k would be introduced to television so soon...heh suprise suprise huh? And at 220 ppi...with that, 8k is definitely a viable future cinema standard. Think about it; the screen would look incredible from the first row and the back row...the best seats in the house would be in the front! I sit about 24 inches from my 17 incher with 72ppi, and that displays 720p, so if you shrunk those pixels down to 220ppi, youd be able to view 4k at nice size with incredible detail right? Correct me if im wrong but according to my inept math skills, that sounds right.
 
Blu-Ray won't be the format of choice for home-viewing... that'll go to holographic storage.
 
For many people, going to the movies is: getting out of the house. Going out, having fun. I don't see that ending any time soon.
 
Seems to me Hollywood is making a little bit of a push to get 3D out there. I don't think traditional cinema is going away, but there may be a move to get additional revenue streams going. 3D and IMAX are ways of doing that. Bottom line is, we'll have many options to watch all of this entertainment and eventually we'll have no need to interact with fellow human beings. :)

Steve
 
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