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mcgrew [mcgrew.info] writes:

A couple of weeks ago in news of someone coming out with 8k resolution televisions, I left a comment to the effect that I have a 4k TV, but there's no 4K content, so an 8k TV was a bit silly. Someone said they thought Netflix had a couple of 4k offerings.

I ran across news that I'll have 4k content in the nebulous future; The FCC is taking its first steps toward over the air 4k broadcasts. [pcworld.com]

It appears that it may be a while [lightreading.com] before I see it.

There's more about it here. [cnet.com] But all three articles raise questions that aren't answered, primarily, what aboout bandwidth? It seems to me that without extremely tight lossy compression, it would take four times the bandwidth of 1080p. Will it be much better than 1080p after they compress the signal?

How will they get around that? Will I lose some side channels? What do you folks have to say?

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