Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com, where smart happens Hi and Marshall Brains. Now that everyone is getting used to h D t V and more than half of US households actually own a digital TV, manufacturers are starting to toy with the next big thing right now. It's called Ultra high Definition or u h D, and several companies are already selling u h D screens.
A standard hd TV screen has nineteen twenty by ten e D pixels, or roughly two million pixels per frame, and Ultra high definition screen has four times that many pixels, or eight million pixels per frame. It's like putting four hd TV screens on a single display. The problem right now is that there really isn't that much video at that resolution to display on Ultra high Def TVs. Manufacturers end up demonstrating the TVs by putting up eight megapixels
still images from digital cameras. Japan is working on the next step beyond that, called Super high Vision. It has four times as many pixels as Ultra High death, or thirty three million pixels per frame. At that resolution, It's hard to find even still cameras with enough pixels to fill the screen, but Japan claims that by tween, super high vision will be coming online. Do you have any ideas or suggestions for this podcast? If so, please send me an email at podcast at how stuff works dot com.
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