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Originally Posted by tony286
Also 4k is going to have a very short shelf life.
Forget Ultra HD: 8K is closer than you think - Hardware
"But even as the world?s biggest TV makers work out how best to package 4K, Japanese state broadcaster NHK has been talking up its replacement. 8K Super Hi Vision offers an image 16 x more detailed than HD. At 33 megapixels it inflates the envelope of human visual acuity, and then pops it with a loud bang.
Dr Keiichi Kubota, NHK?s Executive DG of Engineering (below), told HCC that progress with 8K has been so rapid that they?ve now decided to leapfrog 4K as a transmission standard altogether: 'It took two decades to take hi-def from the lab to public demos. We?ve made the same progress with Super Hi-Vision in half the time,' he says. ?Our experts have set a target date of 2020 for experimental broadcasts, but there?s the possibility of bringing this forward. We want to begin as soon as possible.? "
4K is Obsolete. 5K is Here, 8K Comes Tomorrow by Jose Antunes |
Solid find and very good information.
Keep in mind they are talking about Monitors and TVs, not cameras. Monitors and TVs are quality jumping faster up faster with technology than their affordable camera counterparts.
Think of HD 720 versus HD 10800: Both look great on a 1080p flat screen, just the 1080p is a bit sharper the the 720 version.
Same thing with 4K versus 8k. 4K footage will look great on an 8k tv but obviously 8k footage on an 8k tv will look that much better.
Right now if you want anything shot in 8K there are no atainable cameras that can do it. There are cameras that can do 6K, but a serious price.
Buying a solid 4k camera with a 422 or a 444 color space within the next year will be a safe bet. 4K will definitely be the next porn quality standard.
Just Dave