Time to biff your HD telly?
"Full HD" (1920 x 1080 pixels) is sooo yesterday. Here comes "Super Hi-Vision" (7680 x 4320 pixels). Yup, that's 16-times full HD resolution!
Japanese public broadcaster NHK is still developing the technology, but the BBC recently made broadcasting history by sending the first SHV transmission to Japan -- at a staggering 24Gb/s.
But don't dump your HD telly yet. The Beeb are aiming at broadcasting in SHV by 2020 though there is talk of shooting some of the 2012 London Olympics in the new format, "both for public displays and to form part of the BBC's archive footage."
That's 1080p in light blue. SHV is the outer frame.
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Comments
Why bother even with HD? there's nowt worth watching on TV anyway.
Coro street, yank sitcoms, yank soaps, local soaps, political correctness; no wonder the suicide rate is so high.
Posted by: MikeP | October 5, 2010 12:26 PM
Whats the point? So we can watch even more crap TV in super Hi res?
I'll worry about my picture quality when there's something decent to watch..
Posted by: chris | October 5, 2010 10:50 AM