Mike Powell wrote to Al Kaiser Subject: New TV and Home Theater   
      
      
    MP> So, wait... I thought 4K was just a high-end HD. Is it   
    MP> something that replaces it instead?   
      
   4K is the next step up in the pixel resolution.  While HD is 1020 X 1080 pixels   
   and somtime referred to as just 1080P or more commonly known as HD. HD can also   
   be 720 X 960 if you rmember when HD TVs first came out they were all 720 Plasma   
   screens, (That's where the "P" came from when the flat screens were being   
   introduced).  The glass screens which still had the gun are interlaced, my   
   brother still has a 1080I TV which throws off the COX Tech because he sets the   
   box on 1080P and wonders why there is no picture.   
      
      
   4K is also known as UHD and all those new names you see in the store is 3840   
   X 2160 pixels.  I have not heard it referred to as 2160P it is better known as   
   4K or UHD.   
      
   I have not seen any specs on 8K but I'll bet it will probably be 7680 X 4320   
   pixels if they follow their current standard of thinking.  Problem is they can   
   only go "so far" within reason because the media like Blu-rays are 50 GB max   
   and you would have limits on how large a movie could be put on a disc.  Also   
   the cable companies and broadcast media only have so much bandwith to fit a   
   signal and audio they may not have the ability to to transmit an 8K signal   
   without compressing it to fit the bandwidh now.  Cable companies are   
   compressing the HD signals now and that is why if you look side by side at a   
   cable's HD signal and the same broadcast signal the broadcast signal is   
   noticibly better.   
      
   We will have to see where the technology takes us.   
      
      
   -=>  Al Kaiser n1api@cox.net <=-   
      
   That's all for now!   
      
   Al Kaiser - Meriden, CT, 22-Mar-2018 at 5:01.   
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