Forget 1080p, look on to 1440p, then 2160p?
Engadget HD has picked up on a 47 inch, 2560x1440 resolution panel from Chi Mei Optoelectronics, which is due to debut in the second quarter of 2007. It boasts a whopping 3.68m pixels, with 450 nits brightness, 1500:1 contrast ratio, 90% NTSC colour saturation and 6.5ms response time. This is apparently labelled "Quad HD"
And what's next after that? Well CMO have already been showing off 3840x2160 resolution panels, but they've been delayed.
As usual, technology - particularly in development - moves at spectacular pace. The latest connection standards including HDMI 1.3 should cope with the increase in resolution and associated bandwidth, but will consumers?
At present, anything above 1080p is not an official standard, so whilst we might see 1440p, 2160p and even greater sets, they're not yet following any rigid standard.
I'd imagine the first applications that could take advantage of these displays are high-end PCs, and possibly a revved-up PS3, though there's a debate amongst gamers as to whether improved image definition in itself is a good thing for gaming.
Everyone else is still working towards achieving 1080p. It will be a time before even 1080p signals will be commonplace in a broadcast situation, letalone higher specs.
So, it's good to see these sets in development, but who is really going to get the most from them? People with more money than sense might buy them to be cool, but can you imagine a 720p broadcast signal looking any better on a 2160p set than a standard def signal currently looks on a 1080p set?
It's resolution madness! But of course, we'll keep reporting it.
(Via Engadget)
a scrren with a resolution of 2160 lines is esseantial for the current HD standard if the decide the current sanard is going to be 1080 this could then be reduced to 1080 line resoltution screen. but for the moment when there is two seperat resolutionn for the same stanard to ensure accurate image prodution it is nessary to have multiple of all the possible resolutions in this case 1080 and 720 lines.
sadly at the moment it is still rare to see hd compatible sets all they are is hd ready and are semi-designed for current transmissions rather than hd. their is the odd exception but these are not avilable on the streets within 25mile radious of where i live in the midlands uk.
Posted by: guest | April 28, 2007 4:53 PM