posted 05-23-2011 03:19 PM                       

Both of these links are old. Guess I wasn't paying much attention at the time (I was out of work for a year during that period). Anyways, it looks like 4K at home is much closer to the home theater market than I thought. Guess I should quit buying any more Blu-rays for now...

From 2009: Want a 4K TV? Sony Has a $76,000 Set with Your Name on It

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Adam Frucci, Gizmodo

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.

Yes, this $76,583, 56-inch set sports a resolution of 3840x2160, 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. Samsung announced a similar, larger set a couple years ago, but as far as we know it never actually became a real product. This thing is all real.

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 $76,000. [AV Watch via Engadget]

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At the FPD International show held in Japan, the division of Samsung has demonstrated its plasma screen 63 inches with a resolution of 4096×2160 pixels, more commonly known as 4K in the industry. The company has been able to accomplish this feat by reducing the size of each pixel, now 0.339mmx0.363mm (0.13×0.14 cm) by rationalizing the structure of the barrier rib and review of the transparent electrode and the bus electrode . These pixels are less than half the typical size of a pixel in a modern 63-inch, 1920×1080 HDTV.

Other Features Little is known about the Samsung, including the thickness of the panel, but the larger screen with a pixel size of superfine including prototypes using similar technology, such as Pioneer, Sharp and Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK), which constructed sample of 20 inches or less.

Many people think that 4K is the future of HD, which offers four times the definition of a modern 1080p HDTV, also equivalent to about nine million pixels.

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