NHK's Super Hi-Vision (7,680×4,320 pixels and 24 gigabits/s)

[Farid]

I know it's old news, but I stumbled again upon this today and I thought it was thread worthy:
http://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/open2005/en/tenji/t08.html

• Its video format uses 7,680×4,320 pixels (16 times the pixels in an HDTV), and a 60-Hz frame rate progressive scanning scheme, making it possible to present an unparalleled amount of information on a screen.
• It employs a 22.2 channel 3D loudspeaker arrangement to realize excellent sound field reproduction and a wide listening range.
• Broadcasting satellites in the 21-GHz band have potential as a delivery system for broadcasting of Super Hi-Vision to individual homes. we are studying special compensation technologies employing a phased array antenna system to solve radio attenuation problem caused by rain in 21-GHz band.
• We constructed an OB van system for carrying a compact ultrahigh-definition camera and hard disk recorder, and shot videos that are being presented at the 2005 World Exposition, Aichi*, Japan.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173402762

NHK developed a Super Hi-Vision camera equipped with 8 megapixel CCD image sensors that can take 4k x 8k images. In the field test, it sent the two cameras to a sea park and sent baseband signals without image compression using an fiberoptic network formed by multiple network companies.

The signal of the total 24 gigabits per second was divided into 161.5 Gbps HD-SDI signals to sent using the DWDM (dense wavelength division multiplex) method.

 

[AlNom]

Wouldn't this be better suited towards movie theatres :| (Especially 24 speaker units for the entertainment room )
Manufacturing a TV that can resolve that many individual pixels must be hell unless it's a pretty big screen (60"+ diagonal ?) .

(Sorry for being negative, it just seems like an ePenis contest for a home theater)

 

[Gubbi]

(Sorry for being negative, it just seems like an ePenis contest for a home theater)

Indeed.

A normal home theater FOV of 30-36 degrees (THX recommends 36 degrees for movie theaters), - and with the human fovea having an angular resolution of around 1 arc-minute you end up with 2160 pixels across horizontally for a curved panel and 2388 pixels across for a flat one.

So about 10x overkill (3.2 Mpixels vs 33Mpixels).

Absurd.

Cheers