Just bought a new TV?even HD, 3D are already out of date: New screens 15 times sharper will mean the pictures are as clear as real life

 

There was indignation from many viewers recently when Dean Bell — the foul-mouthed, unemployed 'star' of Channel 4's latest so-called reality documentary, Skint — was shown spending £2,500 of his social security benefits on … a new TV.

But one wonders what Bell's reaction will be to the news that his pride and joy — a 47in high-definition affair that shows programmes in 3D, connects to the internet and uses a 'magic' remote with voice recognition — might be past its sell-by date within a year or two.
Are today's top-of-the-range HDTV sets about to become yesterday's technology? That, at least, is what television manufacturers hope and believe.
They are putting their faith in a potentially enormous development in TV technology that, they trust, will see millions of us ditch our current sets in order to buy swanky new ones.
Prepare yourself for Ultra-High Definition TV — known as UHD — which delivers pictures so crisp, colourful and realistic that, experts say, we may in future have trouble separating in our memories those things we saw on screen from those that happened in real life.

Gimmicks come and go, but true revolutions in TV do not happen too often. The emergence of colour TV in 1967 was one such step change.
So what is UHD? Why is it different, and what does it mean for our television viewing?

Currently, millions of us watch 'high definition', or 1080HD, television. The picture on such a screen contains around two million pixels, as the tiny dots that make up the picture are known.

Two million pixels might sound like a huge number, but in this day and age it's not that impressive. When you consider that TV screens have been getting bigger over the years — it's not uncommon to see 50 in screens in ordinary homes — the relatively small number of HDTV pixels results in pictures that aren't as clear as the original purveyors of high-definition promised.

But Ultra High Definition stops television looking like television. It just looks like real life — as though the screen were not there and you were simply looking through an open window at the scene

Cool. I want one, oh I forgot, I already have one .....there is noting wrong in dreaming. Abi?


Note: When it comes to Electronics, one wise rule is, don't try to keep up with current version or your pocket won't keep up with you.