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1080p is so yesterday, bring on 4096p 2160p

September 11, 2006 by in Tech with 14 Comments

1080P resolution is already history. The professional industry wants to move as soon as possible to 4K. This brings us to a 4096×2160 resolution.

It can be as much as 50MB for each frame and you need a beast to decode such a video. Even to edit it, it takes a lot of power. Nvidia is preaching 1440 resolution but the professional industry wants to go even further.

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  • Nicky

    It’s the height of the image that counts: it’s not 4096p (4096 it’s the width), it’s 2160p!
    Still impressive though…

  • Guy

    Yah, i was gonna say that too, Should be 2160p..

    4096p would be 7282×4096… thats one hello of a resolution..

  • Guy

    but 4096 isn’t a good height integer, 4320…

    Soo! after 2160p comes 4320p, a fantastic resolution of: 7680×4320

    NIICE..

  • s0crates82

    I don’t wanna be the naysayer…

    ..but why?

    And on what media would you store that data?

  • Jon

    I don’t think my 13″ TV can handle that :-(.. no can my apple cinema display.. nor any screen currently made on the planet for consumer consumption

  • j2

    No. :( What the hell is wrong with like, 1024?

  • Cynic821

    Has anyone heard of the Red One? Its the most revolutionary and affordable 4K camera on the market.

    17,500 for the camera. Comparable cameras that dont do what it does in terms of rez and variable framerates are near 200K +

    get educated here:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLwPc4V56gA

  • http://infectedproject.wordpress.com/ Andrew

    50mb per second!! That means a movie encoded at 29 FPS is 1450mb thats about 1.4gb!! Per second!! 84gb per Minute, a two hour movie would be 10195gb?!

  • http://deleted Cynic821

    http://red.com/

    29fps? WTF? movies are 24fps by tradition.

  • dogcow

    The 50 MB is calculated using RGB/16-bit color.
    If you add an alpha layer (which would be used in editing), thats 67.5 MB. Wow. A 90 minute movie would be more than 8 TB. Just 8-bit RGB would be 3 TB. In perspective, 1080p would only be 80GB. Wow.

  • http://infectedproject.wordpress.com/ Andrew

    opps srry ;)

  • http://www.digg.com Smoking

    Cynic821, are you sure those guys are for real? ;)

  • Cynic821

    What guys? The red camera? Ya im sure, IBC 2006 is going on right now, and this camera has been one of the most sought after items for big and small studios as well as hollywood for well over a year. Thousands already pre ordered.

  • VIDFAN1

    On the editing post, we’re into terrabytes now even at the consumer level, thats not really a big deal, in fact, I think I read about a 1TB hard drive by hitachi that supposidely came out last year and thats at the consumer level.

    Most consumers will not be editing video with that resolution any time soon, in fact, less than 1/2 of the camcorders on the market today is 1080p.

    As far as playback, I think were talking mpeg4 blue ray discs to play 2160p movies (3840x2160px24fps) and as far as HD-DVD, maybe they can fit them too.

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