HDTV? You Ain't Seen NOTHING Yet!!!

Keep in mind the Osborn? Or was it the Osborne? Really, I knew it existed, but did not care. This thing was a personal computer. Like we had, always need one of those? Those new electric typewriters with memory were the rage. THAT was amazing!

Flash forward and we are winning the reverse engineered UFO goodies. Oh, wait, no, that’s not exactly right.

The age of HDTV!!! Keep in mind when “high definition” included the conditions “stems and seeds?” You do? You rascal.

No, this is about High Definition TELEVISION. In my opinion, I feel the word TELEVISON is so…. 50s. We need a latest one there. So did you leap for the Plasma? Or the LCD projector? The DLP? Have you got the home theater with all the tricked out electronics?

Do not listen directly on the high tech train tracks, then, for the reason that there is one more train coming, and you will hear it down the line.

UHDV is in the pipeline. On the track. In the lab. In the electron wind. Want to estimate? Time is up. ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION.

Keep in mind the movie where they discover this skull cap that would catch your emotions and immediately the bad guy looped someone having how shall we say – some very strong happy times… and turned himself into peak experience broccoli? Is that where all this is skulled? Not for a moment, if ever. HOWEVER: UHDV is close to the detail of 35mm film. With 7680 x 4320 pixels, this is not distant from the 4K (4,000 scan line) digital projection systems for big-screen movie theaters.

UHDV features 33 million pixels with a 60 frame-per-second (fps) progressive scan format.

NHK, the Japanese broadcasting huge who had HDTV in the 1980s… is behind the UHDV format, but assures us it may be a long time before home theater UHDV becomes realism. That is corporate talk for, “Do not let the competition experience close we really are!”

With 32 times the bandwidth demands of HDTV, UHDV would be high-priced for today’s transmit, cable and satellite technology. NHK’s demo requisite a data rate of 24 Gbps. That was some years back in Amsterdam where some people were close to hurling lunch because the moving car video hi-jinx was that real.

How real?

NHK cobbled jointly a custom camera of four CCD image sensors; then to display the output built a LCoS projector combining four eight-mega pixel panels. Data storage, using 16 synchronized HDTV recorders, gave roughly 18 minutes of recording time, using 3.5 terabytes of whole capacity and a screen about 12 feet high and 22 feet wide. NHK researchers called this “the sensation of reality impregnation point,” in the hopes of providing a totally immersive experience: 100 degrees of visual field angle, viewing from a space of three-quarters of the height of the screen (about nine feet) with at least 60 pixels requisite for each person degree of visual field angle.

And speakers? UHDV recommends 24-channel sound, or 22.2, containing perpendicularly arrayed surround sound speakers: nine above ear level, 10 at ear level, three below ear level and two low-frequency subwoofer channels.

The format, according to NHK, isn't so much planned for home use as for museums, public spaces and theaters. You tell The Donald.

Some time ago there was SHOWSCAN. Sound effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull had his demonstration unit in suburbia of Dallas, behind a Chucky Cheese, if memory serves. I saw the demonstration.

The equipment and the Showscan Film procedure of producing and projecting Showscan films are justifiable proprietary and patented. At the time, Showscan’s find was hailed as the most important advancement in film technology since the introduction of sound in the 1929 film “The Jazz Singer”. (Not the one with Neil Diamond.) However, it remained as tiny more than a technological curiosity until the company developed latest camera, high speed projectors, and built special theaters to showcase the revolutionary Showscan images. There was a catch-22 at work. Theaters were not equipped for this state of the art projection so they could not convince financiers to make films in that format. Solution: do it all in house.

I can not keep in mind the specs but it was extremely real, 3-D, multi channel and way ahead of multi channel… or HDTV. I do remember it ran film through the gate much quicker than normal projection speeds.

Nowadays the company’s simulation and specialty theatres are open or under construction in 24 countries around the world, placed in theme parks, motion picture multiplexes, expos, world’s fairs, resorts, shopping centers, casinos, museums, and other visitor destinations where someone wants a rush.