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.
This article originally published at PLANAR
With 3D fading into oblivion, the big news in televisions these days is ultra-high definition, TV-makers' quest to quadruple the resolution of the average high-def flat panel found in most U.S. homes. Called 4K resolution, it can be stunning, with deeper colors and a picture that many people often equate to "real life." The new higher-resolution is expected to expand slowly in 2014. Netflix plans to stream some content at 4K resolution this year, and Amazon announced it will shoot all of its original series in 4K ultra-HD starting this year.
Gorgeous image or not, the question arises: At what point do the capabilities of the technology outpace those of our eyes? Farhad Manjoo, writing in the Wall Street Journal, declared that we're almost there: "Nobody's eyes are good enough to appreciate resolution above 4K."Videophiles and display experts say that's not the point, that higher resolution is only one aspect of the effort to design and build better television displays. Color depth, brightness, and contrast ratio, for example, are all important for picture quality and will accompany higher resolutions. At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this month, Sharp and Samsung both presented prototypes of 8K displays. "Better is better, you know?" says Hans Baumgartner, director of product management for Rovi, which makes video compression products. "We went through this same argument with regular HD."He and others in the industry say most TV shoppers will immediately discern the difference between the current field of high-def models and the new crop that's slowly filtering into showrooms. Prices remain steep— $3,500 and up— but are falling quickly.Still, it's a safe bet that display technology will at some point surpass our eyesight. Apple, for example, all but laid down a visual marker with its Retina Display in 2010, when Steve Jobs posited that a standard 300 pixels per inch is the "magic number" for reading print, at a typical 12-inch distance. As it is, a 1080p television has higher resolution than an iPad 2.Sara Dawson, a Manhattan optometrist, says most consumers can't see much beyond the threshold of the current iPads with a Retina Display, but that viewing distance is critical to how much resolution one detects. Dawson says she hasn't examined the new ultra-HD models— although "my husband wants one."Someday, when we all have massive, wall-size screens that we use not only for watching television and films, but for surfing the Internet, writing the grocery list, playing video games, video-chatting, and other things we haven't even thought of yet, then we may want super-ultra-high definition, although how many K that requires is anybody's guess.
This article originally published at Businessweek here.
iPhone's Retina Display has been its prized feature, and to have a display where the naked eye is not able to discern each individual pixel should have theoretically ended the pixel war. However this is not the case, and Smartphone makers have since then been topping the 326 ppi resolution that Apple has set.The pinnacle of consumer display resolution currently is a 4K display, which Samsung, LG and the like have been putting into their TVs and monitors. But now a Taiwanese flat panel maker has not only created a 6-inch 4K screen, they have begun mass production of the panel back in December 2013.The panel's exact resolution is 2560 x 1440 pixels, at 6-inches it has a 500 ppi resolution, almost double that of Apple's Retina Display.The PR person from AUO declined to reveal the client company who will be installing these displays into their mobile devices, but there are speculations that it could be the Chinese mobile device maker Vivo.The LCD panel also features very wide viewing angles, made possible with low temperature poly-silicon technology (LTPS).What makes this display even more impressive is it's ultra-narrow 0.9mm bezel, which can ensure the device to have a compact footprint, despite its giant 6-inch display.To set the records straight, LG was actually the first company to announce that they have made a mobile 4K display, at 5.5-inches, with the same 2560 x 1440 pixels, coming in at 538 ppi. However LG have not yet put the display in a mass-production device, nor have announced when it will do so, thus making AUO to be the one to set the milestone.News Source: CrossMapRelated Post:
