LG Shows Off Its 84-inch Ultra-Def 3DTV
Move over HDTV.
You probably think your HDTV is pretty nice, and it probably is. Bleeding edge, though? Not for much longer. Especially not when companies are starting to announce ultra-def televisions. Back in November, Samsung unveiled a 70-inch 240Hz 3D display boasting an industry-leading 3840 x 2160 resolution. Now, Sammy has some company in the form of a new 3DTV from LG.
LG is at CES 2012 this week and, as promised, the company has brought its first UDTV with it to Las Vegas. This 4K display, which packs four times the pixels your 1080p TV does, will be available this coming summer in three sizes (60-inch, 72-inch and 84-inch). Of course, something like this will cost you an arm, two legs, and a kidney. But, rather fortunately for us, the price of this TV has yet to be revealed, so our dreams of owning such a television remain intact for now.
"LG is pushing the limits of home entertainment innovation with this 3D UD TV," said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of LG Electronics Home Entertainment Company. "We are bringing together all our Smart TV and 3D knowledge in the 3D UD TV in order to demonstrate to the CES audience that LG is committed to being the world’s leading brand for immersive home entertainment in 2012 and beyond."
For those wondering, no, there isn't anything of this resolution for you to watch right now, so even if you do purchase one of these in July, you won't be able to watch 4K content. Still, you could always skip Ultra-Def and go straight to SHV, which packs a resolution of 7,680 x 4,320. In November it was revealed that select cities around the world would benefit from super hi-vision public screenings of Olympic events this summer. The ultra high-definition format won't find its way to your living room for another few years, but the NHK and BBC confirmed that there will be some SHV public screenings select UK, Japanese and US cities. This includes four locations in the UK, three in Japan and one in the U.S., in Washington D.C.
We're still waiting to see if LG will release information on pricing and a more specific release date for this beastly TV -- we'll keep you posted and update when we hear more on this.
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84" kind of small.
You need a room like movie theatre fot that tv.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! finally going past 1080P! now...can you make a smaller sized like lets say..hmm 24" for my desktop!? I will gladly pay a couple grand for that!
Imagine playing BF3 or Crysis 2 on this screen. Epic!!
What sort of inputs does this have that even support that resolution? Would a PC outputting over display-port be able to run this at it's native resolution? Otherwise it would take what, 4x HDMI or 2x dual-link DVI? (Not to mention some funky driver tweaking?)
I just want to know if there is even a way to actually output PC games to this thing @ it's native resolution since obviously nothing else can.
displayport 1.2 apparently supports this crazy quad HD resolution.
i agree rebel, i'd like to see this resolution in my dell 30".
Actually this is the smartest way to get 1080p in 3D. They are still using their cinema 3D glasses right? Which means the resolution gets halved. So to get this going you input at 1920x1080, let the screen upscale, then send back the image as 1920x1080 which is the half sized passive approach.
And with all 240hz I call BS. Its still only 60hz that is made fluid. 240hz/600hz @ 60hz is still nothing compared to true 120hz.
Oh goody; when is my birthday... can I have 'both' please ?
Awesome! Maybe the single best thing about this, is that it will help to drive down prices of the other large TV's out there!
and even on an 80 inch you would have to sit within 10 feet to even see any more detail than if it was 1080p.
4k good for projectors, and pc monitors, not good for tv.
Imagine playing BF3 or Crysis 2 on this screen. Epic!!
Pumping Crysis 2 out to that resolution even with the fastest hardware you can find will probably be an unplayable 3 FPS
Imagine Avatar on this . . . .
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! finally going past 1080P! now...can you make a smaller sized like lets say..hmm 24" for my desktop!? I will gladly pay a couple grand for that!
I doubt you would even notice a difference between 1080p and this new UD at 24". Would be paying a fortune for nothing.
Great, I just bought a 1080p tv. Oh well, another 10 years it should be mainstream and then I will be able to afford it.
Imagine playing BF3 or Crysis 2 on this screen. Epic!!
Ah yes, nothing like seeing the black level of a DOS error flashing cursor screen in 7,680 x 4,320
I was hoping for 1440 or 1600 on a 40-55", not this sick shit o.0
Now I'll need what, two 7970's to run games at a decent fps?
Time for amd and nvidia to catch up, the 7970's suppose to be 4k ready but I'd love to see them bench that res with any modern pc game for example...
For all the people who seem to think that going to a higher resolution makes no difference: Have you ever tried playing a game with Anti-Aliasing maxed and then played it with none. If you could notice the difference between those then you would notice the different going to a higher resolution.
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Pretty sure my first phone took higher resolution pictures than are being put up to showcase these things.....What kind of ignorant tech moron puts up a picture, with 624 x 351 resolution, in the year 2011-2012? Simply pathetic....I can't even force my phone to go below 6MP....and that's trying to be bad....wtf? I mean really, my parents flip phones does higer resolution than this and they are like 5 years old....holy crap.
Hey, as long as i have 1 arm to control the remote, i am fine. Sign me up
It looks like the TV makers are whipping out the rulers.....
1920 X 1080 has limited the world long enough.
2560 X 1600 should be introduced in gaming/workstation laptops by the end of this year or I am giving up on mankind. We all know the large corporations want to milk the process for money and eliminate standarized technological advances, but it's time to poke the bear again.
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1920 X 1080 has limited the world long enough.2560 X 1600 should be introduced in gaming/workstation laptops by the end of this year or I am giving up on mankind. We all know the large corporations want to milk the process for money and eliminate standarized technological advances, but it's time to poke the bear again.
I'd sure hate to carry around a laptop with a screen large enough to make that kind of resolution actually matter. Then again, I'm a fan of 15" as a maximum size. That'll take about a 20" screen to give a significant enough difference from 1080p.
For all the people who seem to think that going to a higher resolution makes no difference: Have you ever tried playing a game with Anti-Aliasing maxed and then played it with none. If you could notice the difference between those then you would notice the different going to a higher resolution.
Yes, you will notice a difference on an 84" screen, but you wont notice a difference on a 24" screen.
Also, a game with AA maxed and a game with none is pretty significantly different from this situation.
Please, we, computer guys, are also big consumers too. So why not put some effort and give us these kinds of monitors? I dreaming of a big (at leat 40") curved 10 bit UDTV / SHV...
Yes, this is not like AA maxed, it is like AAx2 (only this would be better since it wouldn't have to average those 4 pixels, but rather show them all)
For TV and movies, I think 1080p qualifies as "enough" in its current format (that is, 2D screen, roughly 42" and 2-4m away)
Higher pixel densities would be great news for gaming/workstations, but putting 4K on a 60" screen is like putting 1080p on a 30", so no news there.
As far as i can tell, there is little of interest here, although the higher resolution might mean more for 3D then for other things?
"LG is at CES 2012 this week and, as promised, the company has brought its first UDTV with it to Las Vegas. This 4K display, which packs four times the pixels your 1080p TV does, will be available this coming summer in three sizes (60-inch, 72-inch and 84-inch). Of course, something like this will cost you an arm, two legs, and a kidney. But, rather fortunately for us, the price of this TV has yet to be revealed, so our dreams of owning such a television remain intact for now."
Luckily for us, in a few years it might only cost a few fingers.
That's good news. So we will soon find a reason to upgrade to the all new UDTV-avchd handycams, buy new smartphones with UDTV video conferencing, get new tablets with UDTV-HDMI jacks, new laptops with UDTV graphc hardware and finally find a reason to save anything on the ageing BLU-ray disc! And the the massive OLED displays seem to be arriving quite on time.
I hope those technologies will be subsidised for owners of food stamps. Otherwise I wonder who will have the bucks to upgrade to that next consumer frenzy.
I looks to me like this tech might be for those with deep pockets who want to be somewhat future proofed. Has anyone seen anything at CES where there are complementary products such as UDTV consumer cameras? Any word on a successor to Blu-Ray? My gut feeling is that companies like LG have lost most of their profit margins with the current TV's and are looking for extreme ways to make some money.
Would be awesome if Microsoft and Sony anounced their next consoles would have native support for UDTV res.