Hi, lol over here in the UK we are just getting into 1080p on the HDTV Stakes, and 95% of the people dont understand the difference between FULL HD and HD Ready.
You have to have SKY HD or Cable to get any channels, and what they broadcast isnt much anyways, and they cost a lot to subscribe to too. :/
We are so far behind the Rest of the World, for almost everything even for HDTV and Broadband.
And now by 2015 in Japan they plan on launching ULTRA Hi-Definition TV, 33 Mega Pixel with (7,680 x 4,320) resolution a screen size 16 times the resolution of FULL HD 1080p, and it comes with 22.2 AUDIO!! In other words 24 speakers.
LOL I doubt the UK will ever manage to get this, we cant even own a TV without being threatened and (possibly) assaulted (not just in your pocket) by the BBC, but maybe the USA will get it sometime after Japan, after all they usually do.
Can you imagine though... Having something similar to an iMAX in your own house or a screen so big you'd probably need a 200 foot lounge to sit in with it lol.
The data for it is MASSIVE though!, 24GB/s uncompressed stream, and Blu-Ray and HD-DVD use compression for their data and it is said they can get the video on UHDTV down to 180 to 600 Mbps and the audio was compressed from 28 Mbps to 7 to 28 Mbps.
I have no idea what any of that means, but based simply on the fact that you used some very big numbers, you wrote a LOT, and you seem about as excited as your poor little mind can handle, I'll go with everyone else and say that that sounds pretty damn cool.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
And before the street begins,
And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
And the dark street winds and bends.
Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
The place where the sidewalk ends.