Monday, September 29, 2003

NHK has prototyped a new Ultra High Definition Video (UHDV) system.  It has a whopping 4,000 lines of horizontal resolution (33 m pixels).  So, this is one good answer as to what your PC's massive hard drive is going to be used for by the end of the decade.  This is similar to the ViewSonic's amazing LCD monitor I mentioned earlier.   At 18", the eye needs 204dpi to be fooled into thinking the image is real.  At 6', what is the dpi level needed to do the same thing?  How big could the screen be then if there is 4,000 lines of horizontal resolution? Recording the massive amounts of data needed to produce UHDV definition also posed a problem for NHK. Its engineers were originally only able to make 34 seconds' worth of recording. They have now built a disc recorder system made up of 16 HDTV recorder units with a capacity of about 3.5 terabytes, allowing them to shoot 18 minutes of UHDV footage. 9:21:08 AM    Comment_ Trackback []

Very interesting.  A quick check of iBlog's popularity on weblogs.com shows that it already has a whopping 12% marketshare (at least for those weblogs that ping weblogs.com).  I personally think that a weblog tool and aggregator that sits on the desktop is a killer combo.  Here's why: 1) It offers the ability to integrate into other desktop applications (in this case:  iPhoto). 2) Installation and operation is fast (faster than the Web) and easy. 3) The application can leverage the desktop's CPU and O/S. A slick package for Microsoft is next and then the tool debate is all over. 8:44:50 AM    Comment_ Trackback []