The Next Big Thing

NewBay Media provided this quote in one of their email offerings;

“Something beyond HD might have no interlace, more resolution, finer pixels and these are all great. But what else is there? It has to deliver a new viewing experience. It has to be something consumers want to have… It also has to have improved motion portrayal and it has to have dynamic range. You are missing an evolutionary technical step if you don’t deliver that treat to the eyeballs.” – Chris Johns, BSkyB’s chief engineer/broadcast strategy

Advanced Television has Chris Forrester’s full article;

BSkyB: “Early days” for Ultra-HD

 Advanced Television looks to be a good site for following the implementation of 4K and above. We can shift towards central Europe and get this perspective;

Sky-D commits to Ultra-HDTV

I will still maintain that the definition at 1K is a great plenty for the home. The ‘next big thing’ need to exploit dynamic range to add the “treat to the eyeballs” that Chris Johns talks about;

It’s not tone, it’s texture

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