Truck_kun@beehaw.org 2 months ago
So patents last 15-20 years… regular Blu-ray patent has already expired I guess, but Ultra HD Blu-ray is the current patent, releasing in 2015… so another 6 to 11 years before consumers can do whatever they want with the technology.
Would be outdated by then by the next new thing though.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
That is if there is still an optical drive market in the future.
Sony never made a big deal of how the PS5 can play Ultra HD disks the way they did with DVD and Blu-ray. Ultra HD sales seem a lot smaller than previous renditions. You also have a lot of content being kept behind the streaming paywall rather than getting released.
I don’t think there will be a large enough market to support 8K, backed up by the fact that a specification has been written but no one wants to go forward with making the disks and drives.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
And my TV is still a cheap full HD (2K) screen from 2011, so I’ve got no reason to buy media in higher quality
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Full HD/1080P is 1K. If you meant better than 1080P though, then more power to you.
Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
benq.com/…/what-is-resolution-of-monitor-full-hd-…
The number refers to the horizontal resolution. FHD is nearly 2K pixels wide, just as 4K resolutions are nearly 4K pixels wide, although FHD is the typical term for the resolution and QHD is more commonly called 2K instead than FHD