5 Years From Now.....

[int_53185]

I find all this discussion about "high def" formats amusing. 5 years from now....if there ever is a winner in this war...the current "high def" will be a laughable relic as it is replaced by "higher def." Just look at computers from 5 years ago...solitare pushed these dinosaur machines to their limit! 4400K is already coming to a digital thater near you. Why, that's 4 Times the current "high def!" This will make blu-ray look like a fuzzy vhs tape from the 80's! Maybe, it doesnt matter who wins the war....they will eventually be beaten in the near future....

[venk]

diminishing returns

just like the jump from 480 to 720 is much more evident than the jump from 720 to 1080

[rick240]

Originally Posted by venk

diminishing returns

just like the jump from 480 to 720 is much more evident than the jump from 720 to 1080

Oh cmon now.

720 to 1080 is very evident on a large enough screen.

4400 will be indispensable to all of us with 25 foot screens

[deth crimsonx]

five years from now, i can see houses with built in tv's that cover one side of a wall. it was in a movie way back i think in the 60's or 70's. It sounded silly, but if you think about it were not that far off.

[JamesS]

Originally Posted by rick240

4400 will be indispensable to all of us with 25 foot screens

If only I had the room. My eleven foot wide screen has been feeling kind of small lately. 4k would melt my poor video processor though.

[chocobomog]

Originally Posted by deth crimsonx

five years from now, i can see houses with built in tv's that cover one side of a wall. it was in a movie way back i think in the 60's or 70's. It sounded silly, but if you think about it were not that far off.

Wasn't that it Fahrenheit 451? It was in the book, I don't remember the movie though.

[alkalinesi]

Originally Posted by deth crimsonx

five years from now, i can see houses with built in tv's that cover one side of a wall. it was in a movie way back i think in the 60's or 70's. It sounded silly, but if you think about it were not that far off.

its possible, but how much will that cost? im thinking if the new panny 150" plasma is going for $100,000 then thatll be $200,000

[venk]

Originally Posted by chocobomog

Wasn't that it Fahrenheit 451? It was in the book, I don't remember the movie though.

I'd settle for the Back to the Future 2 vision of future TVs. Heck, were only 7 years from "The Future".

[dysfunction26]

Originally Posted by rick240

Oh cmon now.

720 to 1080 is very evident on a large enough screen.

4400 will be indispensable to all of us with 25 foot screens

I have a 120" screen and barely notice a difference, from a 12' seating distance.

[IdoBlu07cb]

And then 5 years from that we'll all laugh at 4400k. It's not like we expect Blu-ray to last forever. Technology is making leaps and bounds these days, and Blu-ray is just another step to the next thing just like DVD and VHS were.

[bigbsezwazup]

I think it will be longer than 5 years for home displays to go higher than 1080p simply because the FCC has just implemented 1080i as the highest resolution TV signal starting in Feb. 09 and not all of the US even has a HDTV yet in 08. I say 20 years. Now HD movie downloads may take over for BR in 10 years if they can get 50gb to download in 10 min. or less for every home.

[Gr00v3r]

Yeah these 4k screens shown at CES is crazy. I mean you can watch slpitscreen 4 shows at a time all on HD. LOL

[mclldavidson]

Just look at computers from 5 years ago...solitare pushed these dinosaur machines to their limit!

[vertigo]

i see the current HD-TVs being around for the next 30 years. All us broadcast stations, cable, sat, etc have all just been forced to update to digital (either due to FCC, with broad cast, or due to consumer demand). They are not gonna drop hundreds of millions again in a few years. Furthermore, i see 4k being the new edge for movie theaters. Back in the day of the ol' 4:3 screen the movie theater was the best play so see any movie, because you lost a lot of the picture and it was soo blurry on tv. Then you got widescreen tvs were you could see all, or most, or the orignal studio shot. But the movie theater still had the better hand in terms of visuals. Now we're at a point where the quality of a movie theater experience is equal to that in a home theater ( I would argue that the home theater with high def and lossless audio is better because every time I go to the theater the last year and a half either the audio is messed up, like the left side being completely silent, or the picture is blurry. So 4k being the sharpest thing out and available only in theaters (in the forseeable future) means that the theaters might draw more people out of their homes and into the theaters.

[vertigo]

Originally Posted by mclldavidson

yeah I was gonna say that too. In 1999 we had Half-life out. Sure it pushed the limits of my computer, but it looked damn good back then. Solitare hasn't pushed the limits of a computer since the 80s.