Ultra High Def Video Expected to Replace HDTV As Early As 2017

Keeping up with the popular trend of technology moving outlandishly fast, analysts over at In-Stat have gone ahead and announced that the days of HDTV are most likely numbered, as research towards affordable UHDV televisions continues to grow. UHDV projects in resolutions of 7680 x 4320 and 3840 x 2160 (32 million pixels), effectively making it sixteen times as powerful as the current top resolution of 1920 x 1080.

This is the first information that I have heard about UHDV in a few years – back in 2005, a prototype product was presented in Japan and (unsourced) word on the street is that some people got motion sickness as a result of the picture’s realism.

In-Stat also expects the install base of UHDTVs in Europe to penetrate 5% of households by 2021, and increase to over 28% by 2025. Additionally, Japan is expected to be one of the early adopter countries.

A comparison of UHDV (Super Hi-Vision) next to current formats. In case you're wondering, it's the big blue thing.

If you want to read In-Stat’s full report, make sure to have a credit card and $3500 dollars on hand and head over to their purchase catalog. Or you can just hope for a nice file sharer to leak it.

It’s like hi-def. But higher.

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