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John Lasher
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From: Newark, DE
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posted 01-19-2009 02:10 PM

Perhaps they're counting on physical media dying out and all content being delivered via fiber-optic, et al., stored on home entertainment PCs...

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Julio Roberto
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posted 02-09-2009 06:54 PM

We talked about it, and now we can see it [Smile]

This is a short video and pictures of the "thing" in action.

http://www.obsessable.com/news/2009/01/29/philips-cinema-21-9-tv-caught-on-video-in-london/
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/televisions/0,39029474,49300823,00.htm

It may be a gimmik, but it's a fairly inexpensive one and good eye-candy. If the blu-ray consortium stuck their collective heads out of their ... armpits they would support a SAR flag other than 16:9 for 576p and 1440 res and other than 1:1 for 1080p.

In another words, a very simple, inexpensive firmware update to players and you could truly benefit of these types of TV with extra resolution.

They may do it if sales start to dull-out as another trick to sell, once again, an anamorphic blu-ray version of films already on the shelves later on.

This thing is 2560 x 1080 (will have to find a name for that ... hmmm 2.5k? 2.35-1080p?) It's more pixels than DCinema 2048x1080 ... and when displaying Scope pictures is MUCH more as the philips would display the correct 2.35 picture at 2560x1080 while a DCinema would project it at 2048x858 only !!!!

Of course, if there was a home format that actually delivered that to the TV ... Any computer could do it, but you would need to find material sourced at that resolution (i.e. you worked in a Post house or made your own 3K or 4K movies with digital cameras).

It has five HDMIs, DNLA and Wi-fi capabilities for accessing files on your PC, has a 3 sided version of Philips' Ambilight technology, and the latest version of Philips Perfect Pixel technology.

It is not the first monitor in the market with over 1080p of resolution, of course, as Dell, Apple, and others have had 30" 2560 x 1600 for around $1000, even more than 2560 x 1080 of this Philips and far more than DCI 2K 2048 x 1080, for years.

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=222-7175

But anyway. Who knows what TV's are going to be like in 2 or 3 years from now ... The Philips is just the first with the 2.35 aspect ratio.

The resolution is a non-issue to manufacture. Every time a monitor is larger than about 23" it doesn't really cost much more to make it higher in resolution. It's only a question of lack of demand and marketing. From the manufacturing point of view, we could have 50" 4096x2160 monitors for $3000 retail if there was a demand for such a thing and a graphics standard to support it.

Right now I only know of one monitor for sale (plenty of prototypes by all the companies around, but only one comercially available) with that resolution. It's 56" and they want $50k for it. [Roll Eyes]

I think I rather buy fifty 30" 2560x1600 Dell's at $1000 each for that money and stack them all togheter in a wall ...

But anyway, who knows what TV's are going to be like 2 or 3 years from now .... Meanwhile, we can continue to believe that 2K is a perfectly fine 10 years investment for most movie theaters ... which, again, don't get me wrong, I *do* believe that it is fine, but somehow I feel a theater must offer an experience far better than home, not just a little better (or a little worse in some cases).

[ 02-09-2009, 07:55 PM: Message edited by: Julio Roberto ]

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