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.

(This post was last modified: 01/09/2012 11:57 PM by Kuu.)

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..

(This post was last modified: 02/09/2012 03:15 AM by gsmoke.)

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.

(02/09/2012 05:42 AM)RIKKU Wrote:  do wee even need it that high?

Yes~

(02/09/2012 10:40 AM)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.