The term "4K" has become a big trend in display technology, with product announcements and demonstrations from the world’s leading suppliers. What do these resolutions actually mean? In this eBook, learn the benefits and challenges surrounding the latest trend in video: 4K or Ultra HD resolution. This eBook also covers the stunning realism of 4K, the 4K content ecosystem, what's needed to drive 4K and how interactivity and 3D extend the 4K experience.
Proven High Resolution Experience
Planar has been operating in very high resolution environments for years. From desktop monitors to tiled video walls to LCD displays, Planar delivers displays options to suit applications requiring the highest resolutions and pixel density including:
QHD Monitors
The Planar PXL2790MW is a 27" QHD monitor that delivers breathtaking 2560 x 1440 resolution, four times the resolution of a 720p desktop monitor and 77% more resolution than a full HD desktop monitor. The Planar PXL2790MW is ideal for applications including video or photo editing, CAD/CAM and other mechanical design, and big data visualization.
Large Format 4K LCD Displays
Planar® UltraRes™ Series is a family of 84" Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) professional LCD displays that produce resolution and picture quality not before seen in large format LCD displays. With a native 4K resolution, Planar UltraRes Series has four times the resolution and pixel density of comparably-sized full HD displays. When displaying ultra HD content, Planar UltraRes Series delivers clarity and detail that appears sharp even at close viewing distances - no detail is missed.
Video Walls
Planar offers LCD and rear projection video wall displays at full HD resolution that when tiled into 2x2 arrays can deliver stunning 4k resolution. Planar video wall solutions include Planar's award-winning Clarity™ Matrix LCD video walls and Clarity™ LED3 Series rear projection video walls.
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First 4K HEVC video compression unit could help spread of content for Ultra-HD screensIDG News Service (Tokyo Bureau) — NTT and NEC have launched a compression unit for 4K/60p high-resolution video that can compress video in real time using the HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) format.Commercialization of the technology is a world first, the telecommunications and electronics titans said.A real-time encoding unit using the technology, the VC-8150, went on sale Wednesday in Japan, with shipping to begin in April.The unit complies with the latest international standards on HEVC, a compression format for video that is the successor to the popular AVC (Advanced Video Coding), also known as MPEG-4 part 10.The companies said the development was based in part on an analysis of an HEVC algorithm."Previously, 1.5 GB of terrestrial digital broadcast data could be compressed to 15 MB, but with this newly developed technology, 12 GB can be compressed to 30 MB," an NEC spokesman said. "We realized a four-fold improvement in the compression rate.""With this technology, stations can begin 4K broadcasts," the spokesman said, adding the unit would be priced in the range of tens of millions of yen (hundreds of thousands of US dollars).In addition to the VC-8150, a VD-8100 companion decoder will also ship in April.The manufacturers said the technology will contribute to the spread of video and broadcasting in 4K, a type of ultra high definition (UHD) with a minimum resolution of 2160p. 4K images have nearly 8.3 million pixels, four times as many as a 1080p image, which is the full HD resolution produced by Blu-rays.While 4K has yet to make significant inroads into mainstream broadcasting, it has featured in Olympics coverage and other sports broadcasts.Last October, Oregon-based Elemental Technologies and Japanese telecommunications carrier K-Opticom carried out real-time streaming of the Osaka Marathon with a 4K HEVC transmission. It was billed as the first such transmission of its kind.This article originally published at CIO
