Comments on: MIT researchers build ultrahigh-definition Quad HD (4K) TV chip

By: John N

John N — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:58:34 +0000

Correct. 4K video has been around for some time now with cameras from Red Camera and 4K displays have available since last year at least. Sony’s new 4K camera is being released a week from now and will be widely available. And to top it off Gopro released a tiny wearable camera that shoots in 3K for under $500. Not sure what this new 4K sensor introduces anything new other than more efficient video encoding.

The article states that there is no 4K content currently available. This is not true, Youtube already allows for the upload for 4K content and you can find 4K resolution video on Youtube. Also the UHD video spec refers to both 4K video and 8K video.

By: snake0

snake0 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:15:54 +0000

I contest that at least one of the adjectives in your username is false.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 04:34:31 +0000

Great 4K of crappy content.

By: Bri

Bri — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 18:16:19 +0000

“I know all things, I am all things” the Highlander movie was an interesting premise. They ruined it in subsequent sequels. No I don’t think he woukd be a stock trader.

By: MSOMM2000

MSOMM2000 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:09:13 +0000

As to better than retinal quality displays, I think you are omitting screen size and distance from the viewing screen as issues. 4K will allow for very large screens with intense clarity, even at closer viewing distances.
Similar to HDTV today, a 19′ viewing screen does not seem much different from standard TV with a quaility input. At 50″, the differences are dramatic.

By: marco

marco — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:43:34 +0000

this is great news. most of us are already watching television for 3000 dollars a year that we used to watch for free with rabbit ears…. god only knows what this will cost us

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:34:05 +0000

” Who would want to live in a world where they are the Masters of the Universe? ”
Isn’t this what all sentient beings strive to become? The ideal end of all progress is the domestication of all things.

By: Gorden Russell

Gorden Russell — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:16:59 +0000

Just imagine what they will do when those sharp Wall Street stock traders get augmented. When the first guy gets a DNA computer in his brain, he will link with the supercomputers at the brokerage houses and perform flash trades all day long using the knowledge he gains from all the big data he can mine all over the world. He will be like Christopher Lambert at the end of “The Highlander” when he knew what was going on everywhere.

The first trader who can do this will end up owning the entire market by the end of trading on his first day.

But what if this guy works for Goldman Sachs or CitiGroup? Who would want to live in a world where they are the Masters of the Universe?

It would be Orwell’s vision of the future of humanity at the end of his book, “1984.” A hobnail boot stamping on a human face.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:04:22 +0000

After the Singularity, if you are unaugmented, you will not be able to understand the least bit of technological innovation done by superintelligences, not to mention whether they will be “swizzling”.

By: Dinoguy1000

Dinoguy1000 — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:54:32 +0000

“Similarly, Chiraag Juvekar, another graduate student in Chandrakasan’s group, developed a more efficient way to store video data in memory.”

The description of this technique makes it sound like swizzling, which is hardly a new development. He may have developed a new swizzling algorithm, though.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:16:41 +0000

On how our machineries are providing more data than our sensory organs and brain can percieve, I wish to, again, quote Dr Vernor Vinge:
“For me, the superhumanity is the essence of the Singularity. Without that we would get a glut of technical riches, never properly absorbed.”
The inability to “properly absorb” our technologies, in my opinion, is regretably wasteful. For now, I can only fantasize about a world where the potentials of all technologies are used to the fullest.
The most important of all technologies, AGI, with its ability to self-improve and achieve superhumanity, should help actualize what I can only fantasize.

By: SmartAndSober

SmartAndSober — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:58:05 +0000

A display that exceeds the visual resolution (allowed by the density of cone cells and disc cells in human eyes) will appear, apparently, in the next few years. To match such high definition, human cyborgization (in this case, of the eyes, the optic nerves and the optic lobes of the cerebrum) must be performed.
I understand that, in initial stages, cyborgs will be seen as alienating outcasts and are not accepted by humans who are not (yet) augmented.
But, I also believe that the stage should take a very short amount of time.
Cyborgs with sufficiently augmented nervous system will doubtlessly and irreversibly control the world.
The unaugmented will live under the mercy of the augmented.

By: gaoptimize

gaoptimize — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:15:47 +0000

I think what you mean is there is no over-the-network or air UHD content. The good folks at Red.com have been providing cameras for acquisition, software for editing and image processing, and storage and display equipment at 4K for a few years now. Most movies produced today (and the majority shot on Red) can be viewed in 4K at fine cinemas across the country now. Their most recent enabling hardware is a 4K player “Redray” for only $1,500 (comparable in price to BluRay in its first year of availability). Consumer editing software such as Sony Vegas already supports 4K. It is all coming, and coming down in price.