Higher resolution displays?
cokewithvanilla
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When are we gonna see higher resolution displays and media? It seems that our current technology can support it... id like to see some 72ppi displays at 60 something inches
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Why do we need higher resolution? The current resolution of Blu-rays is more realistic than real life according to a lot of people. Can it really get any better? Do we really need it to get any better?
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comfortablycurt wrote: »Why do we need higher resolution? The current resolution of Blu-rays is more realistic than real life according to a lot of people. Can it really get any better? Do we really need it to get any better?
Hell...I'm still happy watching my VHS tapes on a damn near 20 year old 27" Magnavox CRT.
more realistic than life, but on what size display and at what viewing distance?
Well... when I watch a BR on my laptop, it looks better than when I watch it on my tv (in my opinion)... my laptop is 141ppi, my tv is 52ppi and a projector on a 106 inch screen is 20 ppi... Sure, it depends on viewing distance, but I think you would tend to notice the difference on larger screens, especially since many of us will not change our viewing distance when upgrading... to upgrade my 42 to a 55 means to lower the quality.... visibly, I don't know, but lower nonetheless (all else equal--im not saying that ppi is the only thing involved in PQ) -
It doesn't matter as there's basically nothing worth watching anyway.
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cokewithvanilla wrote: »more realistic than life, but on what size display and at what viewing distance?
That statement was kind of in jest, if you didn't catch that. Some people make it sound like the resolution of their TV really does look better than real life...but that's definitely not the case.
I'm in the "could give a s@#t less about picture quality" camp though.It doesn't matter as there's basically nothing worth watching anyway.
Warm up the tubes and crank up the tunes.
Exactly. There's hardly been a movie made in the last 5-10 years that has any kind of rewatch value for me. Most newer movies don't even catch my interest enough to make me want to watch them even once. There's a SERIOUS lack of creativity in Hollywood these days. Nearly every movie that comes out anymore is either a direct remake of an older movie(that usually ends up being worse than the original), or an indirect remake of an older movie that has almost the exact same plot line as 20 other movies that have been made in the last 10 years.
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4k would probably be the next best thing coming I suppose. I thought Baraka looked amazing shot with 65mm film and transferred at 8K. There are some 4K displays out there, granted they will cost some serious coin.Shoot the jumper.....................BALLIN.............!!!!!
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It does seem we have hit a 1080p wall.
I suspect, that in order for the technology for tommorrow to be funded, they have to use the funds from sale today.
IOW, they have to wait until EVERY household has BD, 40"+ 1080p t.v..
That way, they can 'upgrade' again.
Remember: They were just starting the roll out of BD, when the economy tanked, so, they'll go laterally with technology, i.e. 3D, LED, until more than 1/2 the households have them.I refuse to argue with idiots, because people can't tell the DIFFERENCE! -
It doesn't matter as there's basically nothing worth watching anyway.
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cokewithvanilla wrote: »more realistic than life, but on what size display and at what viewing distance?
Well... when I watch a BR on my laptop, it looks better than when I watch it on my tv (in my opinion)... my laptop is 141ppi, my tv is 52ppi and a projector on a 106 inch screen is 20 ppi... Sure, it depends on viewing distance, but I think you would tend to notice the difference on larger screens, especially since many of us will not change our viewing distance when upgrading... to upgrade my 42 to a 55 means to lower the quality.... visibly, I don't know, but lower nonetheless (all else equal--im not saying that ppi is the only thing involved in PQ)
You seem to be talking about pixel size not increasing 1080p content's resolution. Of course smaller pixels look nice and crisp when viewed close on a laptop screen. I thought everything was razor sharp using my 17in. 720p monitor watching HDTV on my computer. But scaling a 1080p image up to 60in or 106in (with laptop size pixels) doesn't sound like it would be worth the cost of including all those extra small pixels since you're no longer working in the native resolution of the source material. So the larger you go, the more you'd be magnifying all those upscaling inaccuracies you're introducing to reach the native resolution of the screen. -
As for getting the whole industry to produce content and broadcast it in higher resolution, we'd probably still be doing a lot in 480i if the feds hadn't shut down analog signals and forced everything to 720p and 1080i. It's all about standards. And the broadcast standard upper limit of 1080i is what keeps things at 1080p. So unless congress is ready to pull the plug on the current standards and force us to upgrade again, I'd expect things to move much more slowly with modifications to the current standard like 1080 progressive output for sources or 3D at 1080p as we've already seen.
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2k 4k upscale displays are coming but right now we have the WUXGA resolutions currently in use for medical displays or for high end pc graphics card like the gtx480 wuxga = 1200 1920
I think a bluray would look awesome on a 2k 4k device and could add a new dimention to online shooters
Downloading movies will be the new thing
