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Frank Goertzen
September 28th, 2003, 10:20 PM
http://www.e4engineering.com/item.asp?id=50014&type=news

Well this it people the future is here and it's huge 3.5 terabytes for approx 18 minutes of footage.


UHDV displays images with 4,000 horizontal scanning lines, compared to the 1,000 offered by the current state-of-the-art high definition television (HDTV) technology and just 625 for standard TV broadcasts. When horizontal and vertical scanning are both taken into account a UHDV picture contains 16 times the number of pixels ...[click on the link to read more]

Christopher Toderman
September 30th, 2003, 10:41 AM
This will take some time to become viable for production. The large sensors will produce similar DOF as 70 mm film. Great. Sony will soon have low cost projection technology for this amount of resolution.

Rob Lohman
October 6th, 2003, 05:39 AM
I see that was on IBC, too bad I missed that. I doubt they actually
showed some footage with that system though. That would've
been the bomb.

Christopher Toderman
October 6th, 2003, 11:11 AM
It was several decades of color NTSC until we saw the dawn of HD, which is just beginning to take off and we have a dawn of UD. I bet, some filmmakers will jump over the HD period and will go from film to UD.