Thats total call for shenanigans, since no-one in their right mind would have that many speakers, or a need for that many in the first place, but i'll entertain it for the audiophiles who say that this would lead to something or other...
Anyways...
thats just rediculous... it's not bad, but not good, it's insanse...
Where will they put all those TV's?
Practicaliy aside it's neat, cool, etc. But not practical :\ yet...
ok HD has finally jumped the shark...a 7k display...grt porn in 7k, dumb utube videos in 7k the display will have to be 400 inches to take practical advantage
Resolution is not the same thing as size. You could have one (1) 42" set at that resolution. Someone's going to develop the technology and make a lot of money off of it. I, for one, welcome the resolution race. I can't wait until 1080 is on a handheld.
My wife would murder me in my sleep if I put 24? speakers in our living room. But in my basement(aka home movie theater)? This would be something special. Seriously though, from a bandwith point of view, say you have 100 HD channels at 24 Gbps. You're looking at 300 GB per second. Could FiOS swing that???
SWEETNESS. The only thing better than 2160p.... is 4320p. Considering we can't even broadcast 1080p right now how in hell will we put out 4320p with 22.2 fucking channels of sound in 8 years?????? Maybe in 80...
Just because it's available doesn't mean it has to be used.
I bet 22.2 downmixes to 7.1 a lot nicer than 5.1 upmixes to 7.1. And if you are the crazy SoB who wants a 22.2 system in their home theater, then you get to utilize it all.
There's quite a difference between 640K of RAM, this level of HD (and so f'ing soon), and 22.2 surround sound.
(you don't need the latter to enjoy television or a movie - SD was enough for over 50 years, and HD is having a hard time taking off because of crap like this).
Actually, if I had an all digital movie theater, this system would be perfect. Also if I were building the kinds of robotics envisioned by Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity is Near), this kind of system would be perfect for its vision systems.
Mark this is uncompressed, add in a 1:10 compression factor (at least) and you have a 600GB movie which will easily fit on a disk in 7 years.
I think this is awesome + I wish at least Europe would jump on the bandwagon. And the digital cinema standards will have to follow for sure, I have no idea why they made them so low rez to begin with. 4000 pixels is not very much for a giant movie screen...
NHK demoed this system at NAB last year in Vegas. Granted, it was on a huge projection screen rather than a TV, but it was 8k resolution with 22.2 surround sound. And it looked absolutely amazing.
You can see a few pictures of the camera & ccu/hard disk setup here:
This is assuming H.264 compression scales linearly, which it doesn't. It actually achieves a much greater than linear compression. I'm not sure exactly how much but I would at least halve the number from 345 to 172.5 GB/hour. Still alot to hold for todays discs, but a 10 layer Blu-ray (250GB) or one of the future disc technologies (holographic, volumetric, multi-layer-polymer, ultraviolet, etc) could surely cover it. As for the 22.2 channel sound, I highly doubt that part of the standard would be used in homes...
Okay, 24 speakers is insane. But if they are planning to have different hieght levels of speakers so if a helicopter comes you can hear it above you, that sounds whicked! Come to think of it, standared tv is at 24 frames a second, we'll probably be at 60+ by then. So add more to the memory. Though this might be okay since a certain company is working on disks that use the thinist rays of light (ultraviolet) to create 500 GBs on one disk.
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22.2 Surround Sound?
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Don't make me laugh...
Thats total call for shenanigans, since no-one in their right mind would have that many speakers, or a need for that many in the first place, but i'll entertain it for the audiophiles who say that this would lead to something or other...
Anyways...
thats just rediculous... it's not bad, but not good, it's insanse...
Where will they put all those TV's?
Practicaliy aside it's neat, cool, etc. But not practical :\ yet...
I'll see you in 2015 :-P
ok HD has finally jumped the shark...a 7k display...grt porn in 7k, dumb utube videos in 7k
the display will have to be 400 inches to take practical advantage
And no one will ever need more than 640K of RAM.
And no one will ever need more than 640K of RAM.
Resolution is not the same thing as size. You could have one (1) 42" set at that resolution. Someone's going to develop the technology and make a lot of money off of it. I, for one, welcome the resolution race. I can't wait until 1080 is on a handheld.
My wife would murder me in my sleep if I put 24? speakers in our living room. But in my basement(aka home movie theater)? This would be something special. Seriously though, from a bandwith point of view, say you have 100 HD channels at 24 Gbps. You're looking at 300 GB per second. Could FiOS swing that???
SWEETNESS. The only thing better than 2160p.... is 4320p. Considering we can't even broadcast 1080p right now how in hell will we put out 4320p with 22.2 fucking channels of sound in 8 years?????? Maybe in 80...
Just because it's available doesn't mean it has to be used.
I bet 22.2 downmixes to 7.1 a lot nicer than 5.1 upmixes to 7.1. And if you are the crazy SoB who wants a 22.2 system in their home theater, then you get to utilize it all.
in 2016 Bose will release a system, where one speaker creates the same ambiance as those 22 speakers. Mark my words.
If 24 frams per second= 24x33 megapixel = 800 megas per second;
5760gb in a movie two hours...5,7 terabytes...115 blue rays (50 gb);
Useless
There's quite a difference between 640K of RAM, this level of HD (and so f'ing soon), and 22.2 surround sound.
(you don't need the latter to enjoy television or a movie - SD was enough for over 50 years, and HD is having a hard time taking off because of crap like this).
Actually, if I had an all digital movie theater, this system would be perfect. Also if I were building the kinds of robotics envisioned by Ray Kurzweil (The Singularity is Near), this kind of system would be perfect for its vision systems.
Very interesting innovation.
Mark this is uncompressed, add in a 1:10 compression factor (at least) and you have a 600GB movie which will easily fit on a disk in 7 years.
I think this is awesome + I wish at least Europe would jump on the bandwagon. And the digital cinema standards will have to follow for sure, I have no idea why they made them so low rez to begin with. 4000 pixels is not very much for a giant movie screen...
NHK demoed this system at NAB last year in Vegas. Granted, it was on a huge projection screen rather than a TV, but it was 8k resolution with 22.2 surround sound. And it looked absolutely amazing.
You can see a few pictures of the camera & ccu/hard disk setup here:
http://64.180.100.119/nhk/
It was a great technology demo, but I don't see it being practical for the masses any time soon.
Cue the next format war! HV-DVD vs UV-Ray!
@Mark Capinzal
wrong numbers....
HDTV 1920x1080 pixels = 2.074 Mpixels
Blu-Ray H.264 = 48mbps = 360MB/min
==========>21.6GB/hour
48mbps/2.074 Mpixels= 23.1 bits/pixel/s
Super Hi-Vision (Ultra HD) = 7,680 x 4,320 pixels = 33.178 Mpixels
33.178 Mpixel * 23.1 bits/pixel/s = 766.4mbps
==========> 345GB/hour
This is assuming H.264 compression scales linearly, which it doesn't. It actually achieves a much greater than linear compression. I'm not sure exactly how much but I would at least halve the number from 345 to 172.5 GB/hour. Still alot to hold for todays discs,
but a 10 layer Blu-ray (250GB) or one of the future disc technologies (holographic, volumetric, multi-layer-polymer, ultraviolet, etc)
could surely cover it. As for the 22.2 channel sound, I highly doubt that part of the standard would be used in homes...
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Okay, 24 speakers is insane. But if they are planning to have different hieght levels of speakers so if a helicopter comes you can hear it above you, that sounds whicked! Come to think of it, standared tv is at 24 frames a second, we'll probably be at 60+ by then. So add more to the memory. Though this might be okay since a certain company is working on disks that use the thinist rays of light (ultraviolet) to create 500 GBs on one disk.