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Post by LuisV on Sept 17, 2015 6:10:27 GMT -5
4K content is just starting to make it's way into the main stream, Apple and other PC manufacturers have released 5K screens and now 8K? I dunno... I've seen some 4K demos and although a fantastic picture, for some reason they don't look natural to me. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe the calibration levels were exaggerated on the demos I've seen, but I've never looked out a window, driven down the coast nor seen anything live in person that was as vibrant, detailed and eye popping bright as those demos. I dunno... gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-8k-tv-will-cost-133-000-1730974518 |
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Post by ÈlTwo on Sept 17, 2015 7:37:48 GMT -5
16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, wait, where have I seen this before?
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Post by creimes on Sept 17, 2015 8:27:13 GMT -5
Well at least I don't have to worry about going 4k now or Atmos as I'm sure they will announce a new format once the sales of Atmos products have hit a nice level  |
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Post by KeithL on Sept 17, 2015 8:41:16 GMT -5
You don't have to wait.... DTS-X (DTS's answer to Atmos) has been in the works for quite some time - and is due out shortly. It's going to be fun seeing whether all those recently-bought Atmos AVRs can do DTS-X... or not... Well at least I don't have to worry about going 4k now or Atmos as I'm sure they will announce a new format once the sales of Atmos products have hit a nice level |
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Post by creimes on Sept 17, 2015 8:52:08 GMT -5
You don't have to wait.... DTS-X (DTS's answer to Atmos) has been in the works for quite some time - and is due out shortly. It's going to be fun seeing whether all those recently-bought Atmos AVRs can do DTS-X... or not... Well at least I don't have to worry about going 4k now or Atmos as I'm sure they will announce a new format once the sales of Atmos products have hit a nice level Exactly, and what will be released soon after again lol, don't get me wrong I don't mind seeing new formats come into place or heck I'd still be stuck with Dolby Digital but I'm not willing to play the game of buying new gear every year or so either and honestly my room is way to small to add the amount of speakers needed for Atmos, I only run 5.2 and even going 7.2 may be difficult haha. Chad |
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Post by KeithL on Sept 17, 2015 9:24:52 GMT -5
There's a huge divide between computer monitors and TVs. A 12 mega-pixel camera takes 4k still pictures - so, if you want to edit them, you really want a screen that can display them at full resolution (or as close as you can get). Those camera pictures will also almost certainly be at full 24 bit COLOR resolution, which your TV can't do either, and which is why still pictures always look better than video on a really good monitor. (TV video doesn't support the full 16 million colors at full resolution.) You also may want to put two pictures side-by-side on your computer screen - WITHOUT losing detail (which simply isn't that important with video). Also remember that most people watch TV from eight or ten feet away - where you probably can't see the pixels on even a "plain old HD screen"; with a computer monitor you're usually between about eighteen inches and two feet away, which makes it a lot easier to see pixels - either on the screen or in your picture. Computer monitors have traditionally been higher resolution than TVs for this very reason. Before HD came along, SD TVs and DVDs had about the resolution of a 640x480 computer monitor, but most better quality computer monitors were running at least 1024x768. The typical resolution of consumer computer monitors has sort of stalled because HD TVs (at 1920x1080) work pretty well as computer monitors, and most modern computers include HDMI outputs, but having computer monitors two or even four times the resolution of TVs is really "the normal state of affairs" (and it will make much more sense to upgrade a computer monitor to 4k than a TV - if you have the choice.) 4K content is just starting to make it's way into the main stream, Apple and other PC manufacturers have released 5K screens and now 8K? I dunno... I've seen some 4K demos and although a fantastic picture, for some reason they don't look natural to me. Maybe I'm wrong or maybe the calibration levels were exaggerated on the demos I've seen, but I've never looked out a window, driven down the coast nor seen anything live in person that was as vibrant, detailed and eye popping bright as those demos. I dunno... gizmodo.com/the-worlds-first-8k-tv-will-cost-133-000-1730974518 |
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Post by pedrocols on Sept 17, 2015 11:40:18 GMT -5
I am still very happy with my 720P 32" TV! Which is of course two channel....  |
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Post by rtg97229 on Sept 19, 2015 10:27:09 GMT -5
You don't have to wait.... DTS-X (DTS's answer to Atmos) has been in the works for quite some time - and is due out shortly. It's going to be fun seeing whether all those recently-bought Atmos AVRs can do DTS-X... or not... Well at least I don't have to worry about going 4k now or Atmos as I'm sure they will announce a new format once the sales of Atmos products have hit a nice level Some of the AVRs will do DTS-X after a firmware update but the $299 ones won't. Need to buy a new disposable AVR next year for that. |
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Post by vcautokid on Sept 19, 2015 10:49:06 GMT -5
Where is the threshold in resolution realized end, and the Marketing begin?
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