Super Hi-Vision

[Bruce Allen]

I thought you guys would get a kick out of this one:

"Japan ready to move to Super Hi-Vision TV by 2025"
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20070411PD219.html

They're talking about 7680×4320... Of course if you've seen any of my other rants, you can probably guess what I think about that...

Cheers

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

[Zakaree Sandberg]

son of a bitch.. just when we started getting on the HD kick they go ahead and up the ante

[Jeremy Hughes]

As clear as IMAX I hope. They've been testing it for a while. NHK also developed Hi-Vision too. Seems a long time from now. The digital cameras will be way past that resolution by 2025. 2016 would be better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UHDV (capacity section is weird, a lot of examples and they think that MPEG-2 and H.264 scale linearaly)

I believe Mike Curtis said he saw a projection of it at IBC. Did you Mike? I thought you said that at HDFI.

[Mark B.]

Seems overkill.

[Jaime Vallés]

That'll be perfect for the RED-TWO at 8K!

[laguun]

i have seen the system in action at IBC 2006.
quite impressive it is, indeed.

the 22.2 soundsystem was a nice addition.

however, sitting ~4 feets in front of the screen was rather something inspiring to look around, rather being in a gallery and watching monumental paintings than being in a movietheater.

directing for this medium will be very challenging, as -even with string dof etc- the you´ll never know where the audience is watching.

another thing was cruel: the system showed all the flaws of the prototype fujinonlens - which was still awesome.

to be honest, even 4k already is overkill for the cinemas and the audience of today. neither your average grandmom, mom orkissing 13-year old teenager will really see a difference between 2/4k on a medium sized screen - especially if they dont have a comparision or reference.

however, 4k is a huge benefit for post, adds several degrees of freedom for pan&scan and colorcorrection, reduces all the hassle one haves with interference of 35mm grain & 1080p sensornoice when printing to film etc... so 4k makes sense.

the UHDsystem however.... its brilliant, but there were reasons why 65mm and imax didnt suceed for the larger audiences.

[Richard Andrewski]

My first time out of the USA was going to Japan in 1983 and I visited NHK studios on a tour with the group I was with. They were broadcasting HD signals back then and were very proud about it. It seemed like overkill too and in retrospect, look how long it took for HD to catch on here.

[Craig Ryan]

based on this graph
http://www.carltonbale.com/wp-content/uploads/distance_chart.png

This format doesn't seem like it would be a very logical home-theater solution; We'd be practically nose on the screen with even some ridiculous size...I'd say its strictly an IMAX like experience....or maybe when we have wall sized displays in the future.