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Japan goes beyond HDTV

March 11, 2008 in News comments 10

The Japanese are working on a new video format called Super Hi-Vision, delivering 16 times the pixel resolution of a normal HDTV. It is predicted to go wide-scale in 2025.

A research laboratory in Japan is working on a video format that goes far beyond even regular (and still relatively new) high definition television. This technology, named Super Hi-Vision, delivers a screen with 16 times the pixel resolution of an ordinary HDTV screen, giving a sharper, more detailed picture.

This ultra high definition television is so cutting edge that the researchers working for NHK, the Japanese public broadcaster, had to build their own camera to produce test footage for demonstration purposes - they combined 16 normal HDTV recorders.

But for the time being, Super Hi-Vision can only be found in Tokyo, at NHK's Broadcasting Centre, where it is projected onto a 10 by 5.5 metre screen. Full-time public broadcasting in ultra high definition is planned to begin in 2025
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  • -1
    joshthegreat Mar 11, 08
    That's fairly ridiculous... The next step after that will have to be a TV that doesn't operate with pixels... Just ONE image. Like the human eye.
    • 1
      jmac353 Mar 11, 08
      Well it's not as if a pixel is just one image. You couldn't call a pixel an image but that's what you're alluding to here.

      Your vision is the interpretation of multiple rods and cones receiving light and color information which is sent to the brain, so it's not as if it's just one thing taking it all in.

      Good one Josh.
  • -2
    devil link Mar 11, 08
    OMFG I knew when they game out with something better than HDTV it would have the word ''super'' in it! I was right! WTF IS SUPER HI-VISION??? It sounds like a gadget.
  • 0
    lord of vice city Mar 11, 08
    wait, hold on, this is claiming its 16x HD

    isnt HD like 8x normal?

    wow, dem crazy japs are at it again
  • 0
    Stitch Mar 11, 08
    Damn!
    Didn't think it could be any better then that, and here Japan proves it can be much better then that.
  • 0
    StabWound Mar 11, 08
    Better than Sonys OLCD Tvs with a million-to-one contrast ratio
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    Shadow of Death Mar 11, 08
    Lol, I'm not sure, but I THINK I heard something like this (It was called SHD) well over a year ago...

    Cept they were working on it for theaters....Essentially, HD clarity, scaled up to fit a theater screen (and I tell you, the test image I saw, a field, it was pretty freaking good looking, even though I had a SDTV at the time of watching)....

    And of course they'll keep updating imaging technology.....It is actually kinda odd they didn't go past the 640 x 480 resolutions you see in consumer SDTVs, for so long....Sure, computer monitors have been past tha for years, but still >_>

    Eventually they'll reach the point that it is so real, that it is basically a perfect visual representative of reality, or quite possibly, better (super perfect image, beyond what you can actually see in reality)

    And then they'll go into something like full immersion reality TV or something >_>
  • 0
    ShinyMilotic Mar 12, 08
    Wow indeed, it will be interesting to see the difference from HD which is already good..
  • 1
    Existenz Mar 12, 08
    By the time it comes out half of us will be in our mid 40's some even further past that, our vision will have degraded naturally and we won't enjoy this tech anymore than HD now, so it only concerns those being born around about now.
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    Moonrise Mar 12, 08
    This really isn't anything new at all. There's already "names" for resolutions far greater than "true HD", namely those that would work in movie theaters. I think the current maximum being worked on contains the theoretical equivalent amount of pixels that film has (in other words, it will retain the same quality as film at the same dimensions).

    Although film is an analog format that doesn't really rely on pixels at all so there's no true "resolution", it is estimated to be around 3000x1600 pixels (or something to that effect). This "Super Hi-Vision" is just an attempt at matching film in picture clarity using digital instead of analog output. Its only use will be to replace current movie theater systems.

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