Sunday 17 April 2011

Does Next The Next Step In Television Picture Quality Loom Closer?

Sony have just announced that its digital cinema projection system is DCI compliant, which means that Sony’s digital cinema projection system can project ultra-high-resolution 4K video (8.85 million pixels, more than four times that of full HD) onto a screen, Sony’s 4K digital cinema projection systems have been widely accepted around the world, it is the compliance to the “Integrated Projection System” that was certified by DCI as the industry’s first working system which is new, it appears that the film will no longer be delivered as film, but the DCP file (Digital Cinema Package), can be distributed by satellite or delivered to theaters on a hard disc drive (HDD),

the cryptographic key is also separately delivered to theaters, the DCP file is decrypted with the cryptographic key by the cinema server, and screened by the projector, the DCP is embedded with an electric watermark (forensic mark) to prevent illegal recording of projected content, security measures such as an anti-tamper function are also incorporated in the projection system to prevent DCP files from being stolen, eliminating the possibility of pirated production, so no more 'doggy' DVD's, but that leads me to the question, will future home released DVD's have 4K ultra high resolution quality on them or will Sony stick with the 1,028 format (if that is the correct term), they have at the moment?

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