1080p may be irrelevant soon enough as more people are looking for larger screens where 1080p isn't quite enough. 4 x 1080p may become in two years what 1080p was just two year ago.
yeah but to be honest, people are just starting to invest in nice 1080p sets. the last thing they need to hear is that that's now obsolete in favor of 4k (which it isnt)
Going beyond 1080p is going to be a while, more than 2 years I would say. With current technology, we don't even have the bandwidth required for 1080p, let alone more than 1080p. Sure there is compression, but you can only go so far with that and currently, cable companies especially are relying on it heavily and it is making the quality suffer.
Maybe in the HT realm, with physical or downloadable media (I still feel this is a pipe dream many year away from becoming a reality and viable solution).
Unless you have a gigantic television, the perceivable benefits of anything higher than 1080p will be moot. The human eye can only see so much. You would be hard pressed to see a difference between even 720p and 1080p from 6-7 feet away on a 42" TV unless you are using it for a computer monitor.
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1080p may be irrelevant soon enough as more people are looking for larger screens where 1080p isn't quite enough. 4 x 1080p may become in two years what 1080p was just two year ago.
They may have the TV's but there will only be two channels.
yeah but to be honest, people are just starting to invest in nice 1080p sets. the last thing they need to hear is that that's now obsolete in favor of 4k (which it isnt)
Going beyond 1080p is going to be a while, more than 2 years I would say. With current technology, we don't even have the bandwidth required for 1080p, let alone more than 1080p. Sure there is compression, but you can only go so far with that and currently, cable companies especially are relying on it heavily and it is making the quality suffer.
Maybe in the HT realm, with physical or downloadable media (I still feel this is a pipe dream many year away from becoming a reality and viable solution).
Unless you have a gigantic television, the perceivable benefits of anything higher than 1080p will be moot. The human eye can only see so much. You would be hard pressed to see a difference between even 720p and 1080p from 6-7 feet away on a 42" TV unless you are using it for a computer monitor.
@boe: WRONG!
People seemed to be OK with 55" 640x480 TVs for quite some time.
@ Nathan:
The human eye can see, theoretically, 576 megapixels. So, yeah we can tell the difference. You just have to look.
Actually Tom,
Theoretically you can tell the difference.