Yes, this $US76,583, 56-inch set sports a resolution of 3840×2160, which means you can cram four full-res HD feeds in there at one time. You know, for watching four football games at once, or four movies at once.

Sure, this thing isn’t meant for normal consumers, as the price makes it clear. But that doesn’t mean you can’t get one if you have the scratch. Come on, go for it. It’s only $US76,000. [AV Watch via Engadget]

JVC latest projectors—one at 8K (8,192×4,320pixels) and the other at 4K (3,840×2,160pixels)—come with 10,000 lumens of brightness and produce a 5500:1 contrast ratio.

JVC has also created a prototype of their new 4K handheld camcorders, which shoot in 4240p and was made to be more of a broadcasting camera. Although release dates and prices are yet to be announced, they are rumoured to cost under $US200k, which is not that surprising considering that this cutting-edge technology is aimed more at professionals. [Akihabara New via CrunchGear]

It is as though you are following a real world event happening right in front of your face with your own eyes. Any and all flickering in the movement of the vehicle, in the smoke from the tires, etc. are completely gone, and you are almost tricked into believing you are watching something in real life. The guests at the event were baffled by the quality of the image, and stared in amazement at the screen.

Head on over to the Gran Turismo site to see the tech details of how they did this. [Gran Turismo via PS3 Fanboy]

The Red One camera was never really interested in capturing HD video (1920×1080). Instead, the system’s Super 35mm-sized Mysterium sensor captures footage at 4K (3626×2664) in precious RAW format. The camera starts at only $US17,000, but once you get it fully loaded, the system can approach $US80,000. Sound like a lot of money? It is. But seeing as it doesn’t require purchasing or developing costly film and it still manages to nip the heels of 35mm quality, the Red One represents the democratisation of an ever-opening Hollywood system.

The Red One will be at Gizmodo Gallery this December 4th-7th, in NYC. [Gizmodo Gallery]

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December 4th-7th

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How big is too big? That’s the question that you inevitably ask yourself once you spend any amount of time with Panasonic’s new 150-inch plasma TV prototype. We visited it in Panasonic’s towering warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey last Friday, running it through its paces with 4K footage, Blu-ray movies and Playstation 3 games. After spending a day with it, was it the type of thing I honestly wanted to set up in my living room?

Maybe. Maybe not. The standards that we use to measure other TVs don’t apply here. Have you ever seen a TV taller than yourself? A TV that uses more energy than your washer and dryer? A TV that needs to be carried around on a forklift? I’m guessing you haven’t. This thing is in a category all its own.

Man, is it impressive. If you stand within a few feet of it, it fills your entire field of vision, quickly making you motion sick if you’re playing video games or watching a movie with lots of action. Even standing six metres away, you still feel like the TV is the only thing in the room. It’s a 4K set, so if you’ve got the proper ultra-HD footage pumping into it, it makes 1080p look like a second-rate resolution, but even with 1080p, it’s absolutely stunning.

Iron Man looked like he was going to jump out of the TV. Robert Downey, Jr.’s baby blues were the size of watermelons in anything closer than a medium shot. Everything was just so big. Seeing a shark leap fully out of the water to devour a seal in Planet Earth becomes even more mindblowing when the shark approaches life size.

And video games? Forget about it. You haven’t lived until you’ve played Call of Duty with life-sized enemies. As I decimated Mahoney over and over again (note to Mahoney: you suck), I felt my hands getting slick with sweat on the controller, my head whipping back and forth to try to see him around corners. My body felt a dissonance because I wasn’t moving my legs or having my body jolted with recoil from my automatic weapon.

I’ve played video games on big TVs before. I visited Panasonic last year to do similar, uh, “tests” on their 103-inch plasma. And while that was awesome, it still felt like playing games and watching movies on a really big TV. The 150 transcends regular TV to become something more. It’s like something out of a sci-fi movie, a living wall, a form of primitive virtual reality. It’s so overwhelming that you can’t really fathom putting it in your house because you can’t see it fitting into any kind of reality you inhabit.

Inside the warehouse, we placed a 42-inch plasma next to it that looked pathetic, like something you’d put over your toilet to watch SportsCenter while you take a leak. I wanted to put it in my pocket. Even the 103-incher looked sad and small next to it. And trust me, a 103-inch TV doesn’t look sad or small in too many situations.

If this were a true review, I’d have to complain that, since a 4K TV does to 1080p what your new HDTV does to standard-def, you’re bound to watch a lot of crappy looking TV on this. If 1080p looks bad, think about all of the channels that come through in standard def. And if you’re planning on streaming Netflix movies via your Xbox onto this TV, be prepared for digital artifacts the size of your head.

But you know what? This TV isn’t designed for you to put in your living room. Sorry. It’s a TV from the future, generously time-teleported back to the present by our friends at Panasonic. You aren’t going to hook a VCR up to this thing, and neither are they; it is designed to run with precision-mastered footage, and our current lack of worthy video doesn’t diminish the ridiculous potency of the thing.

Believe it or not, Panasonic will begin selling the 150-inch plasma sometime next year, probably for about twice as much as the $US70,000 103-incher. Will it be snapped up by anyone? Probably. There are always sultanates and NBA stars looking to have the biggest and most expensive TV in the world, and this definitely fits that bill. But again I’ll ask: Is it something normal people would benefit from having in their living room?

I’d say no, but not out of broke resentment and the fact that this would quadruple my energy bill and require me to knock down most of the walls of my home to even get it inside. I don’t think people should put this in their living rooms because, when you get down to it, this isn’t a TV. I don’t want to imagine people watching Two and a Half Men on it. To check the weather on The Weather Channel on this thing would be an act approaching sacrilege. It’s more than a TV: it’s a glimpse into the future, it’s a brazen display of hubris and overkill, and it’s a visceral, skin-searing experience. It belongs on spaceships and in museums, not in living rooms. It’s only right.

For one thing, we’ve laughed in the past at fancy home theaters that still had 720p monitors; well, this guy leapfrogs even 1080p and goes with Sony’s formerly commercial US$100,000 4K SRX-R110 projector, lighting up an 18-by-10-foot Stewart Snowmatte “laboratory-grade” screen. Ironically, the Sony doesn’t have an HDMI HDCP input, but it can upconvert all Blu-ray and HD DVD content to 4,096 x 2,160 in analog. There’s also a secondary projector, if you’re just dying for the olden days of “full HD.”

The sound system is 8.8 channel, though I can’t figure out why it’s not 9.16, or even 11.16, given the fact that there are eight Snell THX towers spaced all around, plus three Snell center-channel speakers, all powered by a combination of solid-state and tube amplifiers. As I hinted, the low end is handled by 16 Snell subwoofers. (I guess this means Snell makes the best speakers money can buy—I’ll just file that away for…never.)

All of this is crowded into a room that’s not ginormous by any means, just 26.5 x 33 feet, with a single three-cushion menage-a-trois couch as the focal point for all 11,315 watts of juice. (Fun Fact: That’s like 11,215 more watts than anything I own.)

Want one? Well, you’re in luck, cuz Jeremy Kipnis is selling this design, along with an even bigger one called the Alpha Ciné and a tinier one called the Gamma Ciné. That’s right: US$6 million doesn’t even get you the Alpha; it gets you the Beta. [Kipnis via Crave and, most informatively, Audio Video Interiors]
Thanks Steve!

The movie is out on DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray December 19, but this short run of screenings will live long in the memory of those who make it along. More details and pre-sales at the Popcorn Taxi website.

And for the Melbourne crew, check in again Monday – Popcorn Taxi has given us 5 double passes to the Melbourne sessions to give away, so you’re sure to want to have a crack at those! If we had more time, we might hold a paper crane building competition, but with the short notice we’ll come up with something else over the weekend. [Popcorn Taxi]

The new interconnect will let you daisychain multiple monitors and connect other peripherals via one bi-directional cable. As you can see from the pic, it’ll also allow for embedded peripherals around the display (this one has speakers built-in on the side). The tech can also be used with notebook displays. It’s expected to come out later this year and if this is a sign of what’s to come, we can’t wait. – Louis Ramirez

Dell Shows Off Super-Slim Display Port LCD Monitor [Gearlog]

Witness the obliterating power and sheer magnificence of the new Sony CineAlta 4K SRX-R220, the projector that can display 8.850.000 pixels of ultra high definition footage in movie theaters, crazy people with really deep pockets homes and probably be integrated as weaponry in any space battle station.

This technological terror is the latest iteration of Sony’s SXRD (Silicon X-tal Reflective Display) line. Like the SRX-R1xx series it still can’t reach 10 megapixels, but it comes loaded with more gear than the Death Star itself: LMT-100 media processor, LMS-100 screen management system, a gazillion gigabytes of RAID storage and uninterruptible power supply are all built-in.

More photos, so you can see the scale of the SRX-R210/R220, full specs, price and availability after the jump.

The projector itself has 4096 x 2160 pixels resolution with a 2000:1 contrast and 14 foot Lambert brightness (a whooping 47.964 cd/m2, according to Sony’s site). The SRX-R220 model can fully cover a 20 meter screen (65.6 feet) with its 4.2 xenon lamp while the R110 goes up to 17 meters with a 3.0W and 14 meters with a 2.0W lamp.

The LMT-100 media processor (or Media Block, as Sony calls it) is in charge of pushing all those pixels to the screen, upscaling in case the original material is lower resolution, decrypting the content so no kids can put a couple of terabytes of UltraHD material on BitTorrent, process the multi-channel audio and even place subtitles on the fly using XML files or PNG. Beyond connecting all kinds of video gear using BNC connectors you can also connect a computer, PlayStation 3 or AppleTV using a DVI port. You know, for kids.

The SRX-R220 and SRX-R210 will start selling on May 2007 with prices starting at $126,540, pop-corn machine and Golden Flavor dispenser not included. – Jesus Diaz

[Sony via Impress AV Watch]