> Blu-Ray bitrates are bloated for various reasons, like older encoders, film transfer, and a lack of anything better to do with the space. You don't need 20mbps with modern H.264 High encoders, it's just a waste. Anything past 10 is at best questionable
But most people won't want the hassle of re-encoding the data they receive. If it takes up twice as much storage, so what? A lot of people will buy that 60TB drive instead of a 30TB one.
> Even if 50mbps were something that we would ever need at 1080p (it's not), 4k would not justify a doubling in compressed size, there is no reason to have 100mbps compressed video.
So consider 4K + twice the frames to handle 3D + doubled framerate. That's 16 times the amount of uncompressed pixels. And I'm not convinced that's the upper bound of the amount of raw data we'll see.
It's not that long ago you'd have been called crazy if you suggested we'd need anything beyond 1080p, and a lot of people were questioning whether HD would ever get any traction.
> 4k is also way beyond reasonable for home display. Just 3840x2160 on a 60" display would be something like 23 arc seconds at 3 meters, you physically cannot see that.
I know people with projectors. 60" is by no means the upper bound on size people will want. 100"-150" maybe.
But most people won't want the hassle of re-encoding the data they receive. If it takes up twice as much storage, so what? A lot of people will buy that 60TB drive instead of a 30TB one.
> Even if 50mbps were something that we would ever need at 1080p (it's not), 4k would not justify a doubling in compressed size, there is no reason to have 100mbps compressed video.
So consider 4K + twice the frames to handle 3D + doubled framerate. That's 16 times the amount of uncompressed pixels. And I'm not convinced that's the upper bound of the amount of raw data we'll see.
It's not that long ago you'd have been called crazy if you suggested we'd need anything beyond 1080p, and a lot of people were questioning whether HD would ever get any traction.
> 4k is also way beyond reasonable for home display. Just 3840x2160 on a 60" display would be something like 23 arc seconds at 3 meters, you physically cannot see that.
I know people with projectors. 60" is by no means the upper bound on size people will want. 100"-150" maybe.