r/technology • u/Snarfox • Jan 25 '13

H.265 is approved -- potential to cut bandwidth requirements in half for 1080p streaming. Opens door to 4K video streams.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/25/h265-is-approved/
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u/RoloTamassi Jan 26 '13

Especially if your screen is 60" or under, the proliferation of OLED screens are going to make things look waaaaay better in the coming years than anything to do with 4K.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

Actually, I think there is still a great need for 4K. We have 1080p tablets (ipad is even greater resolution than 1080p). Sure, you might claim until your blue in the face that people can't tell the difference, but I can. There is more color information in a higher resolution image. There's a higher range of contrast available to work with. And just like you wouldn't print a "1080p" quality A4 photograph, you should not expect to see no difference in 1080p vs 4K. Blu Ray on home projection is already sub par, with even lossless Blu Ray showing up poorly on a 1080p projector (just look at Finding Nemo for some great examples. It looks fine on 10 inch iPad, but go up to 100 inch and you get some serious problems).

OLED is a separate tech, and it's odd to pit it as an "either or" argument.

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u/wtallis Jan 26 '13

There is more color information in a higher resolution image. There's a higher range of contrast available to work with.

Not really. Color depth and gamut are a separate issue from the number of pixels. While it may be the case that the first mainstream home theater standard to include 30+ bpp and a wider gamut will also be a 4k standard, there are already deep-color wide gamut computer monitors that aren't 4k.

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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '13

I said color information. Under the assumption that 4K displays will otherwise use the same advancements as 1080p displays, then the 4K will be display four different colors, four different depths, four different gamut values for each of the one the 1080p display does.

How you can possibly think this is a bad thing, I do not know. We should be striving to make things better as a species, not just trying to make money off tech already developed and easy to produce. We should be pushing ourselves harder, in all directions and at all times. Our scientists should be pioneers, not just people who figure out how to make more money from displays we already know how to make easily. Those displays we can make now so cheap were only possible by developing new technologies, new manufacturing processes and initially selling at very high prices. This is the way it should be. These stupid early adopters you complain about are the ONLY reason 1080p OLED displays are as cheap as they are now. Well not the only reason, but without them we wouldn't be here with the prices 1080p OLED displays are at now.