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a return to cartridges?
13 years ago
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apparently, tech companies have just unveiled TV screens capable of displaying at what they call "4K" which is 4 times higher resolution than 1080 high definition. you probably wont see these televisions on the shelves in your local best buy for another 2 or more years, but the first sets can be obtained as early as this fall, at prices set for "the one percent". the only flaw here is that the resolution is too high for even blu ray to really handle effectively. i believe this implies a new medium around the corner. possibly one of three things:
1: a new optical media that's even more powerful than blu ray.
2: the medium for this resolution will be purely digital, transferred to and stored on an SSD, flash memory, or HDD in the set. this seems impractical, as it would not be able to stream over the web, meeting the same limitation as blu ray and DVD. - and lets face it, even for quality, nobody wants to wait these days.
3: a new type of multimedia. cartridge based, each cart storing a form of SSD / Flash memory in it, similar to our beloved gaming cartridges that are still used to this day in the nintendo 3DS. or you can think of it as a security-locked SD flash drive if you will.
the third option is highly viable with SSD and non volatile flash technology becoming cheaper by the day.
its up for debate as to how easily it would be cracked for piracy. in the long run, likely not much easier or harder than ripping blu rays and DVD's, though different hardware might be required thanks to the likelihood of security through obscurity, unique patents, and proprietary hardware. despite that, the interface could even potentially be usb 3.0, allowing for a high range of compatibility with devices already out and about.
just spewing out my thoughts on the topic.
1: a new optical media that's even more powerful than blu ray.
2: the medium for this resolution will be purely digital, transferred to and stored on an SSD, flash memory, or HDD in the set. this seems impractical, as it would not be able to stream over the web, meeting the same limitation as blu ray and DVD. - and lets face it, even for quality, nobody wants to wait these days.
3: a new type of multimedia. cartridge based, each cart storing a form of SSD / Flash memory in it, similar to our beloved gaming cartridges that are still used to this day in the nintendo 3DS. or you can think of it as a security-locked SD flash drive if you will.
the third option is highly viable with SSD and non volatile flash technology becoming cheaper by the day.
its up for debate as to how easily it would be cracked for piracy. in the long run, likely not much easier or harder than ripping blu rays and DVD's, though different hardware might be required thanks to the likelihood of security through obscurity, unique patents, and proprietary hardware. despite that, the interface could even potentially be usb 3.0, allowing for a high range of compatibility with devices already out and about.
just spewing out my thoughts on the topic.
It has always worked, right? Why change what (doesn't) work?
In the end, if I am supposed to be able to see it, the video has been decrypted, which means someone somehow somewhere will find the way to get around the encryption.
If not, I can always put a camera on a tripod in front of my TV
So in short it has worked for a while, but no longer works. Thus we must change it. And that's why I get paid to do so.
I am a penguin, what kind of operating system do you think I run?
Standard Blu-ray Media Disks can be read fast enough to stream 4k and 8k content already. However, the real benefit lies in production. The professional developer market will be the primary consumer of these displays since they can effectively display 4 full-size documents in tandem.
Cartridges and disks are not very likely to evolve beyond the point they already have. Digital distribution is simply better in every way.
the article i read also implied that blu ray was not capable of handling full feature legnth films at that resolution, both in 1x read speed limitations, *and* implying size limits, to boot. though im pretty sure come clever compression formatting can bypass both these limits anyway.
Also I was curious and looked this up. Apparently there is a dicrepency in the terminology used between monitor displays and television displays. For monitors, "Quad HD" or 4k refers to resolutions similar to 2560x1400. For Televisions it refers to 4096 x 3072 or similar. So for televisions you are correct as that resolution is 4 times as fine in both width and height. What I find unusual is that in fact this term is incorrect for televisions as one would normally quantify the area. So a quadHD monitor is 4 times the resolution in area from 720p, whereas quadHD for TV is 16 times the area from 720p.... this is going to be very frustrating for consumers :{
that's why i think the megabit when referring to internet connection speed is highly misleading when most consumers don't know the difference.
You're fighting a losing battle, America. Knock it off. Seriously. We're fine with 1080p.