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NEWS: Japan Aims to Be 1st With 4K Broadcasts in July 2014

Remember, this doesn't necessarily mean anything for broadcast anime, some of which aren't even animated at 720p, absolutely none at 1080p (aside from background CGs). I doubt most anime films are even in full 1080p for all layers, and forget anything being done larger than that for a long while.

But hey, they can always play Giant Robo.

2014 FIFA World Cup in 4K. omg.

I'm sure all 30 mitsubishi employees will be happy they can watch something on their new TVs.

I don't think i can trust anything being broadcasted via the 'BS' satellite system Laughing

And just when I got my first HDTV too. T.T Suppose this'll mean another new format to "replace" Blu Ray at some point too...

Won't matter much until supporting displays/TVs increase in numbers. But on the other hand that's a trickle until there's content available so I guess this is a good move. Hmm, should I have chicken, or scrambled eggs?...

Hopefully this will also put pressure on replacing bluray which is inherently limited in this regard and will be more or less relegated to sd content if this takes off.

And as walw6pK4Alo pointed out it will matter even less for anime, though as technology/computer power/software/production methods develop I think we'll see some examples.

For online, well, there's 4k concept files out there that play on any of the major players, so in that regard I doubt anything much will change...

Great, i can't wait until 4K become standard. Cool

I think this one is getting into the " We do these silly things so you don't have to. " category.

Have fun guys.

Mark Gosdin

I think 4K broadcasts will be aimed primarily for live-action events like TV dramas and sports. Of course, that means the Toei Company may have to rebuild its well-known Kyoto live-action studio so the historical sets don't look bad at 4K resolution....

I like the concept of 4K, more resolution is usually for the better, but I just don't realistically see it taking over all broadcasting, not so soon after broadcasting (in North America and Japan) had finally given the boot to standard definition NTSC after half a century.

How can you go for broadcasting in 4K when it's struggle as is just to do 1080p? Then again, it's probably best to keep in mind that this is via satellite and not through more "traditional" means, where standards and signal allocation are more sizable walls to conqueror.

I get 4K and even 8K (& its 22.2 set-up… Rolling Eyes

) for larger and stadium-level screens, and that we are getting better at more expansive storage media, but this dash to these exotic resolutions, particularly on the consumer level, is very premature. 1080p, the current highest caliber on that plateau, isn't ubiquitious enough on all levels in a comfortable and manageble form for manufacturers and tech companies to now jump to an even more hefty and unwieldy format like 4K. In terms of broadcasting, I'd rather see a focus on making 1080p available through wide terrestrial means first (from delivery to production) than 4K through a more limited scope.

what the effing eff man... 4k UHD

I'd rather the ATSC in North America take a painless, incremental but beneficial approach by adopting 1080p.

1080p resolution in 24/60 fps is currently only found on Blu-ray...this needs to be adopted in broadcast format with the same data compression as blu ray and not look lossy when you watch on air.

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