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.
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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Colin Scully (COM '12) is the technology/video game/design front/sophomore writer for the BU Quad and since his main writing focus is open to interpretation, he prefers to operate without a title. On his days off, he enjoys Thievery Corporation, Final Fantasy VIII, West Campus bacon, and re-enactments of the October Revolution. He also asks to be disassociated from all news and articles pertaining to this other Colin Scully - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1148505/Man-strangled-wife-death-called-wrong-sex.html Colin Scully's PR team would also like him to acknowledge that the Colin Scully in the news article is NOT the other Colin Scully that attends BU. In fact, Colin Scully would like to add that him and his BU counterpart actually play croquet regularly on Sundays and are great friends.

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