LG Electronics unveiled the world’s first Full HD 1080/60p TVs at last week’s IFA exhibition. The displays basically double the frame rate of existing Full HD screens with the company claiming they represent ‘the next generation of high-definition television’.
While standard HD displays use 60 interlaced frames per second and Full HD functions with up to 30 progressive frames, the new models from LG double the frame rate with 60 progressive frames per second.
The main advantages of this new technology are enhanced resolution over Full HD with more information in the picture, which offers twice as much detail and more cohesive motion. And, there’s almost a total elimination of the ‘Moire effect’ – as we saw from LG’s side-by-side demonstration at the show.
Until now this technology has only been used in next generation games consoles like the PS3, but LG has developed a prototype model for the Japanese market.
Japanese broadcaster, NHK, wants 1080/60p as the next generation broadcast standard. Sony wants to make more 1080/60p gaming content and Blu-ray will be 60p compatible in the near future.
As ever, technology technology seems to be advancving faster than uptake – so how is yet another new high-definition format going to attract an already uneducated audience?
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