What do you think 4D TV's will be like?

Serendipity

Saw a Best Buy commercial where the guy is getting a 3D TV delivered and he sees an ad for a 4D TV coming soon. Now I know this is still a few years in the future, but what do you think 4D TV's will be like?

It would be really cool if you could recreate the experience like an IMAX theater or amusement park ride; we already have bass shakers, but I'm curious what the next step for home entertainment will be in the future.

Holographic projection would be cool, wind/mist/fog are already used at many theme parks, so that's probably out of the question, I'm wondering if it would be possible to re-create smell (probably totally far-fetched, but not impossible)

Reason I'm asking is because I'm an engineer at a large consumer electronics manufacturer, and would like to know what products you guys would be interested in. I also do custom home theater installation and low-voltage data/security/networking on the weekends.

SDA1C

Smell would be huge but I don't think its figured out yet. I went to a theatre (stage) that had smells wafting through the ventilation. I think with a movie it will be difficult to evacuate the old smell before introducing the new. With stage the pace was much slower but with on screen you could easily go from Aunt Mira's kitchen to the grave yard in a matter of seconds causing a bad mix of aroma's. Concave screen's are my best guess as to what is next but that is pretty much IMAX I suppose.

tommyt21

Doesn't the D stand for dimension so technically 4D already exists if you count time.... I'm waiting for 4k2k or Holographic TV's

cnh

tommyt21 wrote: »

Doesn't the D stand for dimension so technically 4D already exists if you count time.... I'm waiting for 4k2k or Holographic TV's

Technically, this is right. So 4D TVs would, theoretically, allow you to move what your viewing through time (backward or forward?). Or perhaps to view time like the aliens in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

"The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives" WIKI

There's your 4D TV...quite a WAYS off, I'd say?

cnh

Drenis

I hope 4D brings the ability to FINALLY reach through the screen and be able to slap someone.

obieone

They invented 4D tv back in the 1960's. It was called LSD:eek:

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tommyt21

cnh wrote: »

Technically, this is right. So 4D TVs would, theoretically, allow you to move what your viewing through time (backward or forward?). Or perhaps to view time like the aliens in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five

"The Tralfamadorians, who can see in four dimensions, have already seen every instant of their lives" WIKI

There's your 4D TV...quite a WAYS off, I'd say?

cnh

Not a ways off, does not time pass by as you watch your programing? It is a built in dimension. We watch a 2 hour moving in 3D HXWXLXT = 4 dimensions.

cnh

tommyt21 wrote: »

Not a ways off, does not time pass by as you watch your programing? It is a built in dimension. We watch a 2 hour moving in 3D HXWXLXT = 4 dimensions.

Yes, we do watch (and live) in time as well as space. What I was thinking more in terms of was "controlling" one's movement through time the same way we can control our movements in space--we don't have the same freedom to move through time that we do through space and that's where the Vonnegut example comes in, a completely 4 dimensional being would be "free" to move in all dimensions, including time. But you are right, above.

cnh

Polkersince85

For a flat screen, I would think 4D would apply to the ability to rotate or pan the scene in 3D. Be able to face, be behind or above the scene. Smells of some movies may be something I would prefer not to have available.

praedet

Isn't Tivo or your average DVR the "Time" part?

mystik610

Polkersince85 wrote: »

For a flat screen, I would think 4D would apply to the ability to rotate or pan the scene in 3D. Be able to face, be behind or above the scene. Smells of some movies may be something I would prefer not to have available.

They have that already. They're called video games lol

As far as controlling time.....I can fast forward and rewind a DVD!

edit: smells and wind can really add a lot to the immersion of a scene. Philharmagic and Soarin in the Disney Land/World parks does this extremely well.

tonyb

Hmmm.....**** in 4D, I've seen double D, but never 4D. Unless you count 2 sets of double D's as 4D, then let the good times roll I say.

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