Panasonic: Megapixel war will never end...6K/8K video by 2020

[pit5000]

if you dont care about video and only want more megapixel photos the Hasselblad H5D-200c Multi-Shot is for you

 

200 megapixels!, it might cost $45000, but if you want more pixels it's obviously gonna cost something

 

http://www.hasselbladusa.com/products/h-system/h5d-cmos-multi-shot.aspx

[AxelRantila]

Shouldn't we start hitting a point of diminishing returns at some point as resolutions increase? I don't see a reason to push beyond 8k as an absolute max

[Master Disaster]

If a 1080p movie with AVC compression fits on a BD-50 (many even fit on a BD-25, then a 4K Movie with HEVC should fit on a triple layer or quad layer BD aka BDXL (100/128GB)Though even for BDXL, one would need a BDXL capable player.

Well to work it out is very simple. The 4K format has a bit rate of 20Mbps. Let's go with a 2 hour movie so the maths is simpler that would be

20 x 60 x 60 x 2 = 144000Mb. An internet converter tells me the 144000Mb converts to 17.5GB (note that's video alone, audio stream would be extra on top).

So yeah, in conclusion 50GB discs should cover 4K.

I'm not getting into HEVC, I don't really my get its system of levels and differing rates depending on what level.

[silberdrachi]

Sigh... let me get some 4k content before i even get a 4k tv. Will we even have 4k broadcasts by the time they are pushing 8k tvs on us? Right now there are still a lot of stations that arent 1080p all the time...

[dizmo]

The human eye has very high resolution when looking at something standstill. When you start moving, that resolution drops significantly. The estimated maximum resolution of the human eye is 576MP.

 

Yeah, I've heard a few numbers thrown around including 398mp.

Haven't really seen a definitive answer, just a lot of speculation.

[Tam3n]

8K 120Hz RAW, 144 Gbps...

 

36 SSDs in RAID 0 would just about cut it.

[-TesseracT-]

Won't happen that quickly, 4K is already to much for a BD disc, even a BDXL doesn't really cut it for a full 2 hour movie.

What's the alternative? Streaming is a no go with the way american ISPs are resisting fibre and I see no other way of distributing the media.

Optical media needs a huge revamp but that's problematic, every time you increase capacity you decrease read speed so going to far will result in a read stream rate which is lower than the movie bit rate.

40 Mb/s in H.265 will cut it.