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There is much talk of 8K ranging from film studios to broadcasters looking to shoot world-class sports events. The Winter Olympics was covered at 8K resolution – proving it's no longer a lab experiment. But is there an advantage in ever increasing resolutions, and what is the business case?
Since the beginning of motion pictures and of television, directors and engineers have been on a quest for better pictures in order to convey artistic intent, or greater realism. This quest includes a move to more pixels, higher frame rates, higher dynamic range, and wider color volume. These together can deliver subtler and more realistic scene rendition and reduced motion artifacts. However, there are constraints, some from the laws of physics, and some from the cost of producing, distributing and delivering higher data rates.
Marketers like large numbers, hang the physics of realising an image and the psychovisual complexities of rendering a scene into the visual cortex.
We saw all this with HD. Most European countries adopted 1080 interlaced HD, disregarding tests that showed 720p50 pictures looked better. We know that to avoid the artefacts of interlace vertical resolution had to be sacrificed, so a progressive scan picture with fewer lines looked sharper, but the number 720 was not that much more than the old SD standard of 625 lines. The detail that the SD picture had only 576 active lines was irrelevant, it’s all about numbers. On top of that the public were sold 1080P receivers, when broadcasts were interlaced, OK you could view 24P movies, but even today, 1080P remains overlooked, passed over in the numbers game.
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