If you have over $US10,000 and a hunger for ludicrously high definition TVs, Toshiba’s impending 55-inch predator is gunning for your wallet and cranium. 4k resolution is more spec candy than anything, but glasses-free 3D? Yes please.
If you want 3D, you’ll have to do with a measly 720p, but 2D content will enjoy the beastly mega-resolution that smashes 1080p by a factor of four. Engadget says it’ll arrive the first quarter of this year. So start saving. Let’s hope CES has more headwear-eliminating 3D sets (and 4k resolution monsters). [Engadget via Verge]
Matt
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:24 AM…. what content is available in that resolution.
Boomzzilla
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:56 AMAn movie that is released to the cinema’s in a digital form for digital projectors.Of course the studio’s keep these hard disk drives under lock and key.
DarthDVD
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 4:16 PMPC Games can (i hope) do that…. well pc games can do over the 1080p spec for Hi-def
So getting this as a monitor.
James Slater
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 12:37 PMYouTube has some 4k content. Consumer digital cameras with 8 megapixels or more are fairly common.
As for 4k movies, Sony is (rumoredly) in talks with the Blu-Ray Disc Association to hammer out some 4k blu-ray standard.
I don’t have much doubt that 4k content will eventually find its way into homes. In the meantime, you can always upscale your blu-rays.
Peter
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 2:21 PMi would guess 4K will tie in with launch of PS4? Worked well for Blueray as we know it now. Maybe?
Adam
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 6:33 PMGreat. So having replaced all my DVDs with blu rays, I’ll now have to replace all of those?
Goddy
Saturday, January 7, 2012 at 10:45 PMI see no reason why a simple Firmware update couldn’t make Blu Ray Players capable of this. The discs are definitely big enough to hold that much data.
chris
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 11:00 AMi dunno, a 3D blu ray takes up a full 50gb and thats twice the data of 1080p so imagine doubling that again.. i would think 100gb disc would be needed for 4k movie.
chris
Sunday, January 8, 2012 at 11:01 AMscratch that.. i was thinking 4000p not 2160p haha but still i think 50gb is pushing it…
Stew
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:09 PMThe optical drives, CPUs & HDMI buses in current BD players probably can’t support such a high data-transfer rate.
Ash
Monday, January 9, 2012 at 10:01 AMSanta better be extra generous to me this year.