News - 4K television to land next month, thanks to 84in LG 3D Smart TV

[kalniel]

HD requires more bandwidth and Sky are trying to maximise their use of transponder capacity so are compressing SD.

Did they discount SD channels when they started doing that then?

[Fraz]

I truly dont give a 'poo type thingy'.

[Biscuit]

The only 4k Broadcast i know has been the Olympics, with the Japanese broadcaster NHK using a 33.3MP Camera to broadcast the show on the widescreen TV's at the stadium. I would expect 4k TV's to become more common place in the next 3-5yrs, give them time and the price will drop around the 1080p tv sets. Just the waiting game now

Pretty sure they did that with IP technology and 4 seperate h.264 based encoders each taking a quarter of the image raster

[shaithis]

Did they discount SD channels when they started doing that then?

Nope. But then Skys TOS allows them to do pretty much what they want, when they want.

And there is plenty of other things to complain about with Sky....like charging £10 per month, per box, to use the boxes HDD to record.....that is the box and HDD that you own, not sky....and charging another £10/month/box for the HD channels........it's obviously some new super tech that deserves to carry a premium!

[Hicks12]

Well iirc South korea had pumped alot of money into LG and a few others to develop 4k OLED tvs so I will be waiting... if this was OLED and I had won the lottery I would be buying this asap , but alas its not OLED so its not an amazing achievement, id rather have a picture quality that can rival the mighty Pioneer and we need HVD to kick off with mass storage asap!.

Cant wait, the next 5 years is certainly going to be interesting.

[Funkstar]

I can imagine uses for screens this large and resolutions this high.

I'd love a huge Smart TV in my living room, especially when I re-build a wall and have have the TV where we have a set of glass doors. Would be cool to have a full HD stream playing in a ~42" segment of the screen as well as additional content being displayed on the rest of the screen. Never mind picture in picture, we can have a full TV stream, plus others to the side. If done right, this could be really awesome and a definite reason to get these monster sets. You wouldn't need a bigger living room to sit further back as you would be concentrating on different portions of the screen at different times.