Regular HDTV is so last year. What you really need is a 4k TV, one with four times the resolution of HD. And hey, Sony’s new TRIMASTER offers just that, for a price.
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.
What’s the team a Polyphony Digital doing besides finishing their upcoming Gran Turismo 5 racing simulator? Making some crazy arse tech demos with four PlayStation 3s hooked together to share rendering time. Not only can four PS3s create a 2160p image (that’s four 1080p images for a resolution of 3840×2160 blasted on Sony’s 4K projector), they can create one single 1080p image that runs at 240 FPS. 240! That’s faster than the human eye can see; and so fast, we imagine, that you can actually see into the future. The audience reception was described thusly:
We’ll have a lot more than the 1983 Apple Phone prototype at the upcoming Gizmodo Gallery. Perhaps you were interested in getting a good look at the famous Red One camera? That’s good, because we sorta know a guy.
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?
Often when we encounter these super deluxe home theater rigs, we can’t figure out where all that money goes. Not so for the Kipnis Studio Standard, the austere name Jeremy Kipnis gave to his US$6 million trial home theater, one he’s happy to reproduce for any other way-too-well-off citizen who asks. I mean, yeah, it’s totally ridiculous, but with 8.8 channels of surround sound, 16 subwoofers and video resolution four times as tight as 1080p, at least you see where your some rich dude’s money is going.
More in our ‘what to do this weekend’ special… Popcorn Taxi is presenting a very short run of Ridley Scott’s ‘Final Cut’ of the geek masterpiece ‘Blade Runner’. This weekend you can see it on the glorious screen at the Hayden Orpheum, Cremorne, and next weekend at the Astor Theatre, St Kilda. Four sessions in Sydney and seven in Melbourne. These are cutting edge HD screenings, too, on display using the world leading Sony CineAlta 4K DCI projector. The movie is remastered, with new and extended scenes, new effects, and a new 5.1 soundtrack.
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 RED ONE HD camcorder is such hot-shit property, its name invokes awe in the bellies of those that await its release. According to Jim Jannard, Red Digital Cinema CEO, the $17,500 device will begin distribution on August 31st, 2007 and a second delivery should be received by September 7th. If you are having a tough time remembering what all the fuss was about, shame on you; hit the link to see that which will make you drool with 11.4M pixels of detail at 60fps. [Red User, Thanks Winston]
Feast your eyes on Dell’s sexy new LCD. It measures about half an inch thick and packs a resolution that’s 4x sharper than the current HDTV resolutions. It’s part of Dell’s new Display Port technology.
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]
