Super Hi-Vision creeps towards reality with latest breakthrough
Because 1080p and even Quad HD just aren't high-def enough, Japanese broadcaster NHK has announced new breakthoughs in it's Super Hi-Vision (formerly Ultra High Definition Video) technology. They've been showing it off periodically for the last several years, but the latest step towards living rooms is a single image sensor that for TV cameras that is capable of full SHV (7,680 x 4,320) resolution. Previous prototypes were limited to half that resolution, but now they're focusing on shrinking the equipment necessary to encode/decode the uncompressed 24Gbps SHV stream to 124Mbps from its current to fit in broadcaster headends and UHDTVs near you. While those pixels are nothing to sneeze at, we're still trying to figure out where to get speakers for the planned 22.2 channel audio.

















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
adam hodge @ Jun 1st 2007 8:34PM
So what "resolution" is the human eye? At what point will not be able to tell the difference?
Joel_O @ Jun 1st 2007 8:56PM
81 megapixels is what the eye can see
Ken @ Jun 1st 2007 9:19PM
I want to see a $99 22.2 HTiB from Wal*Mart. Imagine 22 identical cubes and 2 small subwoofers, all stacked together to make a 'wall of sound' (I kid you not, I have heard that from some white trash idiot with a HTiB). It would be a sight :-)
venk @ Jun 2nd 2007 12:04AM
I wonder how long it will be until we see this as a consumer product? 2015? 2017? Maybe Sooner?
wiidude420 @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:04AM
would kick hass with a high end pc for gaming.
wiidude420 @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:05AM
or for upconverted 1080 p movies, hope by then we get a higher def video player with movies in theyre native 2550 p level res
Danny Geiger @ Jun 2nd 2007 5:03AM
That's insane! We never got latest technology!
riverside_guy @ Jun 2nd 2007 9:16AM
I tell you, the product bloody well better come with a set of upgraded eyes. Still, the concept of self-installing those new eyes might be...
Joe Freund @ Jun 2nd 2007 11:11AM
Super Hi-Vision will not be big any time soon, if at all. There is a big HDTV boom right now and although the prices are dropping, consumers still see HDTVs as big investments and probably aren't willing to go out and buy super hi-vision when their 1080i/p is spectacular enough.
Super hi-vision will only make it with the "show off" rich.
ty @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:35PM
I already have super hi vision... on my eyeglasses
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