Endless Paradigm

After the somewhat lacklustre 3D stuffs, the industry's new idea for sucking money out of consumers rebuying remastered old films is quadHD (3820x2160).
Awesome, 4x resolution of 1080p.  My question, though, is whether wee'll actually see much 'true' 2160p content...

Anyway, apparently QuadHD TVs are actually being sold in Korea, so this probably is the next thing.
However, there still isn't any QuadHD Bluray spec to my knowledge, and there aren't any QuadHD TV transmissions either, so unless the studios embrace digital distribution (as if that'll happen any time soon), it actually could be a while before the content is actually in reach.
Next gen game consoles?  Haven't heard anything on that front either.

Article: http://www.extremetech.com/electronics/1...r-4k-uhdtv

By the way if you want to see some high def clips, there's the short free film, Sintel.  Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a 4k encode, but if you're really interested, you could theoretically download the 94GB of PNG files (483GB if you want 48-bit colour) and make an encode yourself.

Makes sense, the Xbox 720 is rumoured to support 2160p.

haha it was bout time , back in 2005 there was made sci-fi movie based on a tv series Serenity a.k.a. Firefly entirely in resolution 4k..

Sounds exciting, I'm looking forward to it.

Though I hope it doesn't mean the next step of broadcast TV will be interlaced too. Artifacts in 1080i TV are far too obvious (for me anyway).

It's questionable whether there will be room for another format after Bluray though.

Kuu Wrote: [ -> ]Makes sense, the Xbox 720 is rumoured to support 2160p.

As with the PS4

do wee even need it that high?

Rikku Wrote: [ -> ]do wee even need it that high?

Yes~

i doubt it will take off within the next 10 years unless these tv's will be not much more expensive than what they are now. i mean most people have barely upgraded to regular hd tv's so i doubt they'll be willing to spend more money

andrewcc Wrote: [ -> ]i doubt it will take off within the next 10 years

Things are changing at a quicker and quicker pace. It's all about the next best thing.

HDTVs will be old news sooner than you think.

Grey Ghost Wrote: [ -> ]

Kuu Wrote: [ -> ]Makes sense, the Xbox 720 is rumoured to support 2160p.

As with the PS4

I hope that's not true. Today's systems don't even always render in 1080p. If that's true, next gen graphics are going to be about the same, but just higher res.