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Thursday, February 28, 2008

   Is overkill the next TV standard?
I saw an interesting article today on the future of television standards. The current high-end standard for TV is HDTV with approximately 2,000,000 pixels. I've seen it in the stores - pretty impressive. I am however, behind the times with a 27" cathode ray tube TV and DVD player in the family room. ok -in my office, it is closer to a history lesson with turntable, laserdisc, s-vhs, dvd player along with a sega Genesis and PS2 (but I do have a 20" flat-panel to represent the present in there).

Today, I saw an article that mentioned NHK's effort in developing a new standard called UHDV. If successful, it will be 7,680 × 4,320 pixels - about 4 times as many pixels in each direction - 16 times the number of pixels total as HDTV. I think by the time this comes out, my eyesight won't be good enough to be able to see that level of detail. The kicker to put this in the overkill category was the proposed sound system. 22.2 (aka Hamasaki 22.2). Why, yes, that is the same naming convention as the 5.1 or 7.1 systems out today. 5.1 means 5 directional speakers and 1 subwoofer. Center, Front-left, front-right, rear-left, rear-right and the sub.

Therefore, 22.2 means 22 directional speakers along with 2 sub-woofers. There are 9 speakers supposed to be mounted above ear level, 10 at ear level and 5 below ear level. I'm not sure how it would sound, but I am pretty sure my wife's head would explode if I tried to bring 24 speakers into our family room.

I hope everyone is doing well. Take care.

-bunraku
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