Ultra High Definition Video (UHDV)

[kwshipman]

looks cool except for this little technical difficulty:

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.


That means, by my rugh calculations, THe Lord of the rings would take approxamatly 35 terabytes or 7446 DVD's, not including special features

[hypercube]

Crikey. That's really very cool, but luckily it'll take quite a bit to be usable. I mean, that's higher effective res than a lot of film! The delivery requirements would be insane, but can you imagine posting on that? Good grief. Would be awesome for ride films and such though. Ah well..something had to come along to potentially loom on the horizon over HD.

I'm all for them taking their sweet time in the lab with it and using it for special events..having to do more and more hi def lately is enough of a headache. If I do get to do something for ye olde NTSC it's like a gift, everything's so fast to render and comp, and it's all fuzzy. :D

[MaDSheeP]

wouldn't that be higher resolution that film?

yikes...

special effects would be insane to produce... it takes long enough as it is with rendering for movie quality, but UHDV... owww... head hurts...

[zzacmann]

Don't forget. In ten years we might be throwing around 35 terabytes like it was 35 MB today. I remember buying a 4 GB harddrive in 1997 for $400. I talked myself into buying it thinking that I could never ever use 4 WHOLE Gigs of space. Now I can make or delete 4 Gigs of 3D animations and models everyday.

[FloydBishop]

Originally posted by kwshipman
That means, by my rugh calculations, THe Lord of the rings would take approxamatly 35 terabytes or 7446 DVD's, not including special features

Not a big deal. I remember when I first got a 3.5 disk drive on my Apple IIGS. I thought I would never need more than a just few disks.

When Zip Discs came out, I thought I would never need more than just a few.

The technology will catch up. The bleeding edge of technology is funny like that.

[Icarus]

Hmmm..Something that large..

Would Make the MPAA happy.. Wipes out Piracy :P LOL!
but give it some time, technology will catch up :)

but thats pretty interesting,
lets see where this goes :)

Tyrinid

[flipnap]

also dont forget, storage technology is improving. they are currently working on crystal storage (like superman) where information is stored in layers and accessible using mutli colred lasers. where a crystal the size of your index finger could theoretically hold up to 800 terrabytes.. people say, what in the word would you need that for.. well, heres the answer, and prolly holographics if it ever comes to fruition..

flipper the skipper

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