Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Football Sunday, Sunday, Sunday...and Monday, Thursday and Saturday too

If you are a football, or really any sport fan, you are more likely to own an HD TV that is 40 inches or larger.  While being at the game can be exhilarating, most of us find that the best seat in the house, really is at home.  The camera angles have gotten better, you can pause the game, and lets face it, it is way more affordable.  While it may be the best seat, it can always be better.

So if it is time to look for a new TV, make sure you take a look at 4k ultra-high-definition televisions.  While it may seem like the hottest buzzword, it really is rewriting the rule book for image quality.  It is now available from most major TV manufacturers, and soon you will see cameras, smartphone, and practically anything that captures or displays images offering it. What does it mean to you, more pixels (about 8 million more, about 4,000 pixels wide) which produces a more "pixeless" image.

For you techies, yes there are rumblings of 8k on the horizon, but Super Hi-Vision TV broadcasts are still almost a decade away.  So why aren't the networks ready? Well changing to 8k means building a new infrastructure to support the format and extend the bandwidth requirements, which is just cost prohibitive at this time unless someone develops a new compression technology.