Satelliteguys Uplink Report Activity Discussion for the week ending 10/20/07

[mike123abc]

UHD will not be coming any time soon. I know from where I speak. I edited a 4k movie and we've had so many problems just getting it shown at that resolution.

That's 4096x2048, forgetting just the bandwidth necessary to carry that much data, and the cost of even owning a set capable of displaying that, movie production companies are not even ready for this stuff, TV stations are still trying to justify costs for HD conversion.... so as far as UHD goes.... well... my kids may be complaining about that one in 20 years.


If you're interested in 4k cinema, check out our website. Postcards From The Future

4k is being installed in some movie theaters: http://news.sel.sony.com/en/press_room/b2b/broadcast_production/release/31919.html

 

[LASooner]

We already exhibited it in 4k digital at the Landmark theater here in West LA on the Sony SXRD 4k projector, but it was a struggle to get the DCI files working on it initially, same issue at the academy theater as well. DCI spec hasn't been finalized. Finding a projector was just step 1 of about 5 or 6 more steps.

But 4k digital makes 1080p look blurry. If you ever get a chance to see a movie shot with a 4k camera and projected in that resolution it's quite impressive. All that resolution and no film grain.

One day it will be a push button operation, but it's not there yet. So any idea that UHD would be coming anytime soon to broadcast or satellite, should be quickly dismissed. It would be compressed to heck and probably would still take up a whole tranponder.

 

[Smith P.]

LAsooner, reading more about 4K technology, I saw the resolution should be 4096x2160. Are you mistyped second number or it had other meaning ?
And a size of that movies was around 2 TB, nowadays it take just two disks . And a lot of CPU power.

 

[milslim]

are there no more uplink news for e*?

 

[Cegarrett]

I really didn't know that UHD existed.

My point was that there will always be something new and Geeky for us to discuss here at Satelliteguys.us this place may have lulls but it will be here for a little while longer.

 

[digiblur]

http://www.satelliteguys.us/1080993-post4.html

After looking at DishChannelChart at 7784 ... maybe it is the missing channel on the PR locals?

 

[TNGTony]

The missing channels in the PR market are as follows:

WSTE TV 7
Ponce, PR Ind.

WORO TV 13
Fajardo, PR Rel. Cath.

WTCV TV 18
San Juan, PR Ind.

WJPX TV 24
San Juan, PR MTV

WELU TV 32
Aguadilla, PR Enlace

WRUA TV 34
Fajardo, PR Rel.

WDWL TV 36
Bayamón, PR Worship

WMTJ TV 40
Fajardo, PR Edu.

WIDP TV 46
Guayama, PR Enlace

WRFB TV 52
Carolina, PR Ind.

WCCV TV 54
Arecibo, PR CDM (FeTV)

WUJA TV 58
Caguas, PR TBN

---I think channels 32 and 46 are repeaters.

 

[technoguy]

Hope is WORO because they play sports costumer usually ask, when will be on the line up?

 

[neljtorres]

Hope is WORO because they play sports costumer usually ask, when will be on the line up?

It's about time. Could it be WSTE channel 7, they have the rights to the baseball games in Puerto Rico and I am missing them. I have been written to the ceo@echostar for days now and nada!

 

[neljtorres]

Tony WJPX former MTV PR is now part of CaribeVision Carlos Barba brought the channels it's starts around October 26, 2007 . CaribeVision

See You Tony.

 

[TNGTony]

Thanks. Updated the local channel page Dish Locals in 174 cities

See ya
Tony

 

[Smith P.]

61.5W tp19 bitrates

I thought someone (BFG ?) will be interesting to see it.