After last year’s announcement from YouTube that they will support 1080p (what they referred to as FullHD), now they have come out with an incredible post about 4K:
Wow.
High Definition is not so much a standard as it is a journey; next there will be 9K.
One thing is for sure, if you know about RED and their cameras then you’ld be super excited.
The obvious issue here is a combination of storage and bandwidth issues. I know in my country; South Africa, things are only now becoming affordable to access the internet with uncapped accounts and faster line speeds. However, watching (even uploading) 4K video will certainly strain even the fastest line speeds (currently 4096K kbps).
For now 4K broadcasting over YouTube will be limited to the few that are able to create the content and the few that can watch it with out having to wait.
Yet one huge off shoot from this is – when 4K viewing becomes as feasible as 1080p – then online films distribution quality concerns may be mute.
So who will have a screen big enough to watch online 4K?
Will online projectors be the future for display?
4K? 9K? …
I guess the 4k is moot until we get screens that will be able to take advantage of the technology, but I love high def! Remember the crumby TV screens of the 70′s & 80′s
yeah, we will need projectors or something. But I believe that Japan is doing (will be doing?) 4k x 8k broadcast, I wonder what they will use? Whatever the mechanism – it may be the way to go for internet as well.
As for viewing; I worked with some 4K footage a year and a half ago. Watching it naively on my 24″ was ridiculous, ha ha, it had to be scaled.
Maybe projectors will be the way to go or some kind of paper thin screen that get pasted on a 200″ open wall in the lounge, :O
4K is a resolution that is best used as a replacement for 35mm. It helps to have super high res for projector display in LARGE format. Does anyone really think that extra resolution will be perceptible to the human eye? I’m on an SD monitor right now and all of my streaming, on say HULU, looks good. Comparing it to the HD stream I get from Netflix on my HD LCD reminds me that – BOTH LOOK GOOD! To only chase a higher resolution in home is a marketing ploy. For me, Leave 4K in the movie theater. The Red One is great for film makers who will see their work actually on a formerly silver now digital screen.
very Large, yes.
The only benefit for the YouTube filmmaker would be to do visual effects, but if you can afford to aquired at 4K and edit in 4K then YouTube is most likely not your primary distribution medium.
At this stage it’s just a novelty, but what I like most about it are the boundaries it pushes.
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