While looking ahead is always smart when buying gadgets, you’ll have to ask yourself whether paying for 4K makes sense right now. The super-duper HD standard – at least double the pixelage of 1080p – isn’t available on any consumer screens you can buy. Will 4K resolution become the next home theatre standard? Probably! Will it happen anytime soon? We don’t know! And neither does Onkyo. So if you’re planning on buying a receiver now and keeping it for a long while – in time for hypothetical 4K TVs to be affordable – then this might make sense. Otherwise, it doesn’t. At all. [Onkyo]
glennc
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:53 AMi really don’t think it is that far away. the TV companies need something new after 3D and physical media isn’t going to stand in the way anymore
mark
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 9:35 AMAlmost future proofed, where’s the second HDMI output for those who one day may invest in a projector and wish to use one receiver for both?
Chris
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:22 AMIts called zone 2, its been out for ages. all latest onkyo’s zone 2 now have hdmi which means you can actually have 2 different outputs going at once.
glennc
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 at 1:20 PMhe is talking about connecting a projector and a TV in the same room. you cannot do that with only one HDMI out without an additional splitter. where is your second HDMI for your zone 2? projectors are so cheap now this should be on most receivers, not just high-end. as far as i am concerned a second HDMI is way more useful than a resolution that only a handful of crazy expensive 4K projectors can use.
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Chris Head
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 9:44 AM4K will be the norm as that is what 35mm film is digitised at. The standards of cinema may change in the future but all the films from the past 100 years will be stored in 4K.
jeremy
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:14 AM4K is available in pro-projectors and panels if you are cashed up. Panels that do 2560w are becoming common (dell will sell you one, apple 27″ has one), and will be mainstream with-in 18 months. This is not a product aimed at the average punter :-)
matt
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:45 PMDell have been selling their 30″ 2560w monitor for AT LEAST 5 years… since then its only Apple and Dell I can think of that do one…
so the rate of adoption doesn’t really point to it going mainstream in only 18 months.
also, I imagine this stuff uses much the same process as existing upscaling, so is was probably no big deal putting it in.
Elephant Fresh
Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 10:51 PMPlus it’s an Onkyo so its biased to class A right up the arse and it will heat your lounge room up as well as an electric heater.