crumas2 said:
ssj12 said:
not generally true. There are 4k+ sets. Sony had 2 on dispay (they were 80 inch screens). Several of the other companies also had 4k+ sets on display. The transition to the super HD resolutions will take roughly 10 years but during the 10 years Blu-ray will have expanded it's available size to fit 4k+, before anyone questions the point of 4k+ movies are already being shot in 5k+ resolutions, 100GBs should be plenty to fit 4k+ and maybe 5k+if you go to the 8 layered Blu-ray discs (200GBs). By that time internet speeds will be 15mbps minimum, hopefully, so downlaods will take off and movies on disc will be a opinional purchase like CDs are now. That being said there will always be the sense of want for physical media ;ike Blu-ray so formats will always exist. Remember there are still companies producing records (vinyl).There will always be CDs, and a movie format. DVDs will die followed by Blu-ray then the next format. It will be an ongoing chain. |
I would agree that higher resolutions might become available through the Internet, but most consumers get their TV via broadcast. For the average consumer who wants to watch his or her episode of Monk or NCIS, the cable company or satellite is going to be the mass market choice for a while. And if that infrastructure doesn't embrace ultra-high-def, the market for ultra-high-def TVs won't materialize. Computer monitors... sure. But not Joe Average's 46" plasma screen (or whatever we have by then). How many years ago did people start buying HDTVs? How many homes in the US now have an HDTV in their living room? According to Neilsen, approx. 13.7% of US homes had HDTVs/HD-Tuners at the end of Oct. I just can't imagine that in 10 years we're going to have a lot of US homes with 4K sets and that the cable, satellite, and over-the-air broadcasters are going to abandon the billions of dollars of HD equipment they've just installed. It just doesn't make any sense, economically. |
There are several things wrong with his root argument.
1. 4K sets are targeted at industrial and business applications, such as catscans and proofing adverts. There is no good reason why consumer 4k displays would become commonplace outside of very large sets - 1080p is more than enough for most sized sets, and even the larger TVs (60) wouldn't benefit much from 1440. Basically its diminishing returns and there is no good reason to go that pixel dense for consumers. Not to mention the increased cost, bandwidth issues, ect of 4k.
2. Bluray players cannot support 8 layer discs in their current state. This is not only because the current profile specifies 2x only but also because of the way the players are built - so if they were to change things you'd have to purchase a new player for new films. The 8 layer BR is target at archiving large amounts of data and is, again, not really meant for consumers.
Personally I'm waiting for the netflix set-top box. The convenience of being able to see thousands of films, especially foreign and independent, all at the click of a remote trumps what HD films are currently offering.
Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?
ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all.
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