Westinghouse’s 2160p TV Gets Pricing
I don’t think that I reported on this when the news broke, so you might not know that Westinghouse actually announced a 2160p television. That’s right. Twice the vertical, and also twice the horizontal, resolution of the highest HD standard - 3840 x 2160 pixels. It’s a 52″ LCD display and Westinghouse calls it their Quad HD display.
Never mind that there are currently no mass-market sources that are 3840 x 2160. Nor will there be for the forseeable future. But if that doesn’t bother you, Westinghouse announced a price for their Quad HD - $50k. At least according to Cybertheater.
That’s a lotta dollars for a lotta pixels.
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January 23rd, 2007 at 9:18 am
Not only are there no mass-market video sources that will drive this beast, but you can’t even readily find a computer graphics card that will do it either. Maximum personal computer resolutions appear to be on the order of 2048×1536. So this may be the first time in history that a “television” can out-resolve the highest-end computers!
If one were to purchase such a beast, it would be a moral imperative to hack together a video source (perhaps using multiple graphics cards) that would address all of the pixels…