4k Blu-ray disc announcement

videoITguy wrote on 9/8/2014, 3:03 PM
While the 4k presently being used is mostly about acquisition and very little about distribution - the following announcement harbors of things to come..

"According to Victor Matsuda, chairman of the Blu-ray Disc Association global promotions committee, the upcoming Ultra HD optical disc format will also offer a wider color gamut and a higher dynamic range to go along with the improved resolution. Likewise, the spec will offer support for 4K playback at 60 frames per second. In addition, while the new 4K format will be able to use existing BD-50 discs, it will take advantage of the H.265/HEVC compression codec instead of the currently used H.264/AVC codec. With that said, work is being done to develop larger capacity discs as well. Finally, 4K Blu-ray players will be capable of extracting data at rates around 50 and 60 megabits per second with possible support for rates as high as 100Mbps."

Comments

wwjd wrote on 9/8/2014, 3:54 PM
Cool! Thanks for this info!
PeterDuke wrote on 9/8/2014, 7:43 PM
I hope that they learnt from their mistakes with the intoduction of Blu-ray and don't nearly strangle it at birth with high prices and other annoyances.
TheHappyFriar wrote on 9/8/2014, 8:36 PM
So they are releasing a new type of BD disc, still called BD that won't be compatible with the "old" BD players & won't show any improvement on current TV tech.

3D didn't sell a kabillion new TV's, do they really except people to run out and buy new players to support the new format AND new TV's to see it?
fldave wrote on 9/8/2014, 8:40 PM
And while the h.264 is license-free, is there a mention of any license $$ for the h.265?
videoITguy wrote on 9/8/2014, 9:26 PM
While it remains to be seen, 4k may take over by absorption the previous markets like Blu-ray did to DVD releases. 4k would promise to be a grand view for new releases, revisited releases, and even hosting multiple Blu-ray HD releases (due to volume of space on disk media). This has all been adequately tested in the Blu-ray markets of the last few years, so with lessons learned it may be even easier to achieve this time.