HDTV no longer good enough

[bugster]

Maybe some one has finally found a use for that 1TB recorder that Sony announced!

http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php?ID=8067

[offline]

3.5 terabytes for 3 minutes of video. Mama Mia !!!!

[mbaker_jr]

So a DVD-9 could hold a little less than half of a second of video.
The question is, where to put the layer switch...

[FulciLives]

I see this as a way for the "powers that be" to create a form of video that is so processor hungry that no single 3.0+Ghz computer could ever "deal" with it.

It will require special high end computers etc. etc.

The data rate will be so large that it will be streamed to us via cable or dish etc. but we won't be able to record it.

This is what they want.

OR

I could be paranoid and this was just a test by a bunch of geek tech heads that wanted to push the limits of current technology just to say, "Look what we can do Ma!".

If this ever get released it will be YEARS from now when a terabyte won't be much bigger in relation to what say 4GB is to us today.

My first Intel/Windows computer was in 1990 ... 14 years ago now ... it had something like 2MB of RAM, the HDD was 80MB, the video card was 512k and it had the first ever SoundBlaster sound card.

That was pretty good specs then too with my CPU being the only non-cutting-edge part of the computer (it was a 386SX-16 when I think the very fastest at the time was a 386DX-25 or 386DX-33).

In other words ... Technology marches on ... as this rant ends :P

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[flaninacupboard]

that's quite interesting - shame there's not some more details. like was it p or i? was that uncompressed video or mpeg of some kind? what was the frame rate?

i suppose we'll be watch this the same time we're listening to 18.1 surround sound.

[BobK]

"My first Intel/Windows computer was in 1990 ... 14 years ago now ... it had something like 2MB of RAM, the HDD was 80MB, the video card was 512k and it had the first ever SoundBlaster sound card."

Wow- that brings back some memories. My first PC had 1MB of RAM and 20 MB HDD. And I couldn't image how I'd ever use all that HD space. But then my first computer in 1983 was a Radio Shack Color Computer- 16 Kb of RAM and no HDD or floppy at all- programs were stored on standard cassette tape. When I finally added a 5-1/4 floppy drive I paid almost $400 for it- more than I spent on my latest computer.

[DereX888]

When I finally added a 5-1/4 floppy drive I paid almost $400 for it- more than I spent on my latest computer.

You should've hold on to it, in 10-20 more years you probably get back what you've paid for it, if not more

[The_Pioneer]

...just waiting for someone tho doesn't understand what a terabyte is to ask if there's a link to the video footage

[offline]

Yeah, imagine sending that as an email attachment to
your friends?

[satviewer2000]

Undoubtedly, when this technology is refined, it will find initial use in the movie industry. Imagine something similar to IMAX but with several times the resolution of what IMAX is capable of?

Of course it could be decades before such technology reaches the home theatre market (if ever), but certainly within 5-10 years we'll probably be watching these sorts of UHDV movies in IMAX-type theateres.

[flaninacupboard]

i don't think decades for home use is right. maybe not mainstream in ten years but certainly available. D-VHS has been available for a couple of years now.

[BJ_M]

Undoubtedly, when this technology is refined, it will find initial use in the movie industry. Imagine something similar to IMAX but with several times the resolution of what IMAX is capable of?

Of course it could be decades before such technology reaches the home theatre market (if ever), but certainly within 5-10 years we'll probably be watching these sorts of UHDV movies in IMAX-type theateres.

you would have to go a ways as we use 4000x 4000 to 6000x6000 to 10,000 x 10,000 image resolution IF its a digital source .. but if kept completly on film in 8/70 or 10/70 format -- the resolution would be somewhere in the area of 30-40,000 to 60,000+ (depending on the film type used) ...


im not to worried about being replaced yet ..

[Cyrax9]

...just waiting for someone tho doesn't understand what a terabyte is to ask if there's a link to the video footage

LOL!

"Mommy, I want a 400 PETABYTE Hard Drive!" -- That's probably what I'll mumble when this is ready!

Heh just think, we'll need to buy UHDV TV Sets that can fold into our walls due to size, own PETABYTE Hard Drives to edit this stuff on, come up with a new VHS-Sized format of media as far as physical thickness in the shape of a film reel that's totally digital, and then create modems that can send a Terabyte per second for all of the Kazaa users to force out an even LARGER format, lest we forget the 800 Petahertz PC's to run this stuff and DVR's that cost in the trillions range to record it!

I must say this is VERY INTERESTING, I wonder how "Star Trek" will look on here, will I be able to feel the ship shaking back and fourth? What about "Power Rangers" and "Super Sentai/Tokusatsu"? Will we be able to feel getting beaten in battle every Saturday? I can't wait to see something like "South Park" on one of these or rather, NOT see it!

I can only imagine what will happen if some nut makes a crazy show for one of these, tel me, how many single guys are going to have a "Virtual Wife" thanks to their UHDV sets, well maybe not a wife, just some tgpo pron! (Only joking tgpo, only joking...)

[Skynet107]

So a DVD-9 could hold a little less than half of a second of video.
The question is, where to put the layer switch...

LMAO that's very very funny.

[bmiller]

I expect i'll be compost before we ever see this in a home theater situation.Interesting though.Saying that,it wasn't long ago a friend of mine got a 1 gig. hard drive,and everyone laughed,wondering what would you ever need that for.Oh no, maybe i just predicted my early demise.

[flaninacupboard]

they'll probably broadcasting on direct brain interfaces before we kick the bucket

[BJ_M]

they'll probably broadcasting on direct brain interfaces before we kick the bucket

i see on cnn they are already testing for consumer use games that work this way ..

[flaninacupboard]

what?
Really? it's not very fair to wind me up, i don't get CNN over here :P

If they are, do you have any links?

[BJ_M]

what?
Really? it's not very fair to wind me up, i don't get CNN over here :P

If they are, do you have any links?

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/TECH/fun.games/06/15/video.mindgames.reut/index.html

[flaninacupboard]

ahh, something i remember seeing a few years back on tomorrows world. they'd implanted one in a paralysed guy who was using his eyebrows (!) to type. i find biofeedback devices very interesting - i wonder if they'll manage to create a less invasive system?

[leebo]

As the visual effect of the footage travelling down a road was so realistic, some viewers even experienced nausea as a side effect of seeing ultra realistic motion, but not physically feeling the motion.

So they must have trouble just riding in a car, much less watching TV. What BS.

[flaninacupboard]

no, not at all. it happnes on boats, people in the cabins can feel movement but can't see it. the problem comes when what you see and what your inner ear feels is different.

people playing the original descent felt motion sickness!

[FulciLives]

no, not at all. it happnes on boats, people in the cabins can feel movement but can't see it. the problem comes when what you see and what your inner ear feels is different.

people playing the original descent felt motion sickness!

I think I read the same thing when Quake (or maybe it was Quake II) came out!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Cobra]

When you see motion, and your brain believes you are really moving but the inner ear sends conflicting information to the brain, it reacts by assuming that is has been poisoned. The most likely way you are going to poison yourself is by eating something you shouldn't, like poison berries, rotton meat or McDonalds. Vomiting will get rid of this, and you hopefully won't die.

That's a simple explanation of what's going on.

Cobra

[leebo]

Good thing they didn't film someone shooting a gun at the camera!

[Cobra]

I wonder what that would look like, taken with a really slow-motion camera?

[flaninacupboard]

http://www.lovefilm.com/view_dvd.php?dt_id=889&SID=15f0b2a23fcdb478e3f5bb43c4af1f96

[BJ_M]

http://www.lovefilm.com/view_dvd.php?dt_id=889&SID=15f0b2a23fcdb478e3f5bb4 3c4af1f96

matrix effects were not done with slo-mo cameras

[BJ_M]

samples avi's http://www.fen-net.de/walter.preiss/e/slomoavi.html

[ViRaL1]

What's the practical use again?