Ultra HD!

[Jammrock]

Those wacky Japanese just can't let the US outdo them when it comes to gadgets:

http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/33-megapixel-super-hi-vision-ultra-hdtv-could-be-on-the-air-in/

the Japanese government has announced plans to bring Super Hi-Vision (a.k.a. Ultra High Definition) to life as a broadcast standard by 2015. With its 33 megapixel (7,680 x 4,320) resolution and 22.2 channel surround sound, challenges so far have included building a camera that can record it, and equipment to transfer the 24Gbps uncompressed stream.

1080p, by the way, is that tiny blue-green-teal box in the upper left corner. Yikes!

[Elie]

eeeks, we haven't even began to promote 2K or even 4K res to the public and ask them to buy new TV to support it.
Let me tell you, at NAB I have experienced 4K resolution, a company had a TV on display that supports 4096x2160 and they were playing some footage shot by a 4K camera, my jaw dropped when I was able to see a single thread of a spiders web shining in the sunlight as well as the actual texture is great detail of a rocks surface.

Enter UntraHD, I don't know what to say other then TV's will cost in the five digits!

[Mehen]

Eventually we will be able to go back to analog

[rylan]

Sounds pretty dumb to me. Either a fake story, or somebody is on crack thinking that they can mass produce displays for a reasonable cost with that high resolution in only 7 years.

[Jammrock]

Sounds pretty dumb to me. Either a fake story, or somebody is on crack thinking that they can mass produce displays for a reasonable cost with that high resolution in only 7 years.

Real story. Saw it in several places. If technologies like OLED are cheap by then it would be easy to do, though the screen would be fairly large.

[Dr Mordrid]

With the upcoming printable display techs UltraHD's manufacturing process won't be more complicated than dialing in 4800 dpi vs 300 dpi on commercial printers.