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People do care about picture quality, but the problem now is that there's very little content that's actually in native 1080p. A lot of content is being consum

by cube13 14y ago

People do care about picture quality, but the problem now is that there's very little content that's actually in native 1080p. A lot of content is being consumed through Netflix, Amazon, or other streaming services, and most of those don't offer 1080 streams for everything. Add in the fact that most homes in the US literally cannot stream 1080p content, which is really the main barrier to all of those. I really don't think that the 4k/8k techs are stillborn. It's just going to take a long time for the content providers to catch up.

baddox 14y ago
> A lot of content is being consumed through Netflix, Amazon, or other streaming services, and most of those don't offer 1080 streams for everything. And don't forget video games. This will probably change with the upcoming generation of consoles, but many Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games run a much lower resolution. Halo 3 runs at 640p [0]. Halo 4 runs at 720p (finally technically "HD") [1]. Black Ops 2 on PS3 appears to run around 720p [2]. [0] http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12821 http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid... [1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-frank-oconnor-on-how-halo-4-gets-the-most-out-of-the-7-year-old-xbox-360 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-frank-oconnor-o... [2] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-black-ops-2-face-off http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-black-ops-2...
brigade 14y ago
Well, 1080p requires theoretically 2.27x more bits than 720p. Though in practice it's a good bit less. HEVC promises to halve bitrates relative to H.264, so 1080p HEVC would need about the same bitrate as current 720p. So it shouldn't be too long before bandwidth isn't a significant issue for steaming 1080p. Of course, 4k needs another 3-4 times the bitrate, so it'll probably take another codec standard (~1 decade) before it becomes as widespread as 720p is now.

by cube13 14y ago

baddox 14y ago

> A lot of content is being consumed through Netflix, Amazon, or other streaming services, and most of those don't offer 1080 streams for everything. And don't forget video games. This will probably change with the upcoming generation of consoles, but many Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 games run a much lower resolution. Halo 3 runs at 640p [0]. Halo 4 runs at 720p (finally technically "HD") [1]. Black Ops 2 on PS3 appears to run around 720p [2]. [0] http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12821 http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid... [1] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-frank-oconnor-on-how-halo-4-gets-the-most-out-of-the-7-year-old-xbox-360 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-09-26-frank-oconnor-o... [2] http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-black-ops-2-face-off http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-black-ops-2...

brigade 14y ago

Well, 1080p requires theoretically 2.27x more bits than 720p. Though in practice it's a good bit less. HEVC promises to halve bitrates relative to H.264, so 1080p HEVC would need about the same bitrate as current 720p. So it shouldn't be too long before bandwidth isn't a significant issue for steaming 1080p. Of course, 4k needs another 3-4 times the bitrate, so it'll probably take another codec standard (~1 decade) before it becomes as widespread as 720p is now.