News - OmniVision paves the way for 4K 60fps mobile video recording

[HEXUS]

New high-speed 16-megapixel BSI sensor announced.

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[edvinasm]

4K2K with 12bit even at 30fps rocks (any chance of 24p? . What storage would we need though? 16GB = 16min tops?

[Funkstar]

I can see 4K video going the same was as HD. I was able to record HD video on an inexpensive Sanyo Xacti camcorder quite a bit before I was able to actually play it back in HD. My TV was an SD plasma and my old laptop with a 24" monitor connected to it didn't have the grunt to play HD footage.

These sensors and the processors to go with them will be affordable, perhaps even mainstream, well before affordable 4K TVs.

[Fraz]

I've gotta question the need for 4k video resolutions... particularly in a mobile phone!

I can't fit a screen the size of the side of a barn in my house, let alone my living room. Is it just progress for progress' sake?

[Malphas]

We would suggest Apple's iPhone 5 as a potential contender

Yeah, right.

[Funkstar]

I've gotta question the need for 4k video resolutions... particularly in a mobile phone!

I can't fit a screen the size of the side of a barn in my house, let alone my living room. Is it just progress for progress' sake?

Having the source footage in 4K does let you do some nice things in post processing, all of which could be done with a dedicated processor in a handheld device. You can do image stabilisation, decent digital zoom, image enhancements that rely on pixel binning or working on the average of multiple pixels. So the device films in 4K but outputs a 1080p file.

[3dcandy]

image stabilisation would really benefit from 4k original footage as said...