This is just a publicity stunt, and possibly a test for the theater, museum, and presentation market. People haven’t even been completely sold on “normal” HDTV, and now Quad-HDTV arrives to further muddy the waters. (It still sounds cool, though.)
First there was 1080p. Now there’s something called “Quad Full” or 3840×2160 resolution, which Westinghouse will show off in a 56-inch LCD HD monitor at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. The company says that equates to a resolution greater than 8 megapixels and that the LCD offers “stunning, never-before-seen picture reproduction.”
You can get this affect from tiling as well, but the real question is where the source material is going to come from.
Source material is the defining quality for me. I probably won’t move up to 1080p till the timeframe 12/07-12/08. By then, the next couple of D* birds will be up — I’ll be able to stream HDTV reliably around the hacienda — and available product will match convenient hardware. And a significant chunk of that HD source material should actually be 1080p, by then.
Matrix or Discrete?
The HD source material in it’s current resolution is plenty good for interpolating to much higher densities if done correctly. In imaging there are plenty of ‘ideal’ values that have no relationship to the ‘real’ world. This specially applies to moving images, where fine resolution in moving images is so transitory that fine resolution isn’t really necessary.
Take for example the 1080p resolution, which when equated to a still digital camera is less than a 1MegaPixel file. It looks great on a 42″ screen, although that resolution for a digital camera would create at best a 4×6 print.
So if it looks 1080p looks plenty good in regular HD, providing 4x the pixels will make it look better… not that you will really be able to tell the difference except in a lab or when looking at the screen from4 inches away with a magnifying glass… at normal viewing distances it just wasted technology.
BTW, the pic that illustrates this post would be an awesome mod for a media center! If only I could find a box like that one!
#1: Yeah, I’m a procastinator too.
@pedro:
The Red is not a fraud. The problem is that the Opera has made a rather unfortunate choice in what service is providing their phishing tracking. As it happens, red.com is not even in the PhishTank database, but the either the database, or the browser — or even the API connecting the two — is broken, resulting in a fair amount of false positives.
It is very nice of Opera to include this kind of functionality, but unforunately it is not ready for production at this point.
Personally, I think 70mm film would be the best source medium for that kinda res.
What a crock of ….! Westinghouse Digital couldn’t build an HDTV if it tried, much less a quad density panel. It’s a sales outfit. A bunch of fast talkers from Tiawan that bought the Westinghouse name and allow it an R&D budget of about zilch. How many panel fabs do ya spose Westinghouse Digital owns? Zip, nodda, zilch. If CMO, out of Tiawan, wants to shine it’s ass in the good ol’ US of A, then the least they could do is put their own name on it. So many Westinghouses, whats a boomer to do? SELL IT TO THE TIAWANESE CMO, and quit sellin’ under the banner of an Old American icon.
You hearin’ John?