Super Hi-Vision is a technology that was first introduced in 2003. It has various names such as UHDTV (ultra high definition television) and makes 1080p (Full HD) look small. SHV runs at a resolution of 7680 x 4320 pixels which is the equivalent of 16 1080p screens stitched together. According to a report in September from the BBC they say that SHV will be coming to the home around 2015 although many changes can happen in 7 years from now. What they are aiming to do is step up another level to what ever that might be. All we do know is that resolutions will be a lot higher then they are now to give you an even finer image. It’s debatable about how much you will actually notice on screen sizes that are commonly seen in the home.
Although it appears that Sony will be introducing the PS4 around 2012 (3 years earlier then SHV), will Sony be preparing the PS4 to handle SHV services? Due to the resolutions of the current SHV tests a bandwidth of 180–600 Mbit/s was needed to display test images in Tokyo. Uncompressed, a 20 minute video would require 3.5Tb of storage. As you can see, Super Hi-Vision will take a lot of resources which are not cheaply available just yet. In 4 years things will be different though and massive amount of data will be handled every second.
My personal opinion is that Sony will stick to the regular 1080p format for the PS4 as Super Hi-Vision is probably a bit of overkill for the home and won’t be cheaply available for maybe 10 years after the PS4′s launch.
Check out the video over at the BBC to see SHV in action.
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I don’t think the PS4 will support the UHDTV directly but instead be future proof having the capability to do so, maybe it will be designed with screen scalability in mind allowing players to configure their games when on larger screens to not scale upwards and instead increase their overall vision (so that the game is in 1080p but still filling the screen without any stretching).
I don’t think Sony will go the UHDTV route. This Generation with the PS3 they are having a hardtime justifying the price of the PS3 to the masses, if they did this again with the PS4 they may end up giving up on the Videogame buisness and stick with TV’s and other electronics.
Although there is no saying that all of the sudden the PS3 will pick up and end up selling better then the PS2 (Although doubtful) If that were to happen they perhaps they would do it. Looks like we will all have to wait to find out though.
“Although it appears that Sony will be introducing the PS4 around 2012″ < Got a source for this?
PS4 lmao, PS3 has been about for like what, close to 2 years and you are speculating what technology the PS4 will be using? M$ haven’t even released any details on where they are going next so don’t hold your brethe for an answer to this for at least…hmmmmm 5 years lmfao
@WT There are various rumours floating around the net of this being the date. A Sony representative has also commented in the past that he expects to see a PS4 and beyond. Although nothing official in the way of a press release just yet.
As for your MS comment, I believe that MS have commented on their next gen console.
You are right, it is just mainly speculation at the moment but it is also a chance for people around the web to post comments on where they want the gaming industry to go. It’s just a way for the console users to express their opinion on what they think and maybe there will be a chance that Sony will listen.
i agree with mathew on this one people do want to see what ps4 will have and will not
Considering the costs, I highly doubt Sony would spend so much money on a technology that the human eye can barly notice.
I do expect EVERY game to be 60fps though.
@ Jordan Smooth scrolling would be my preference over such a high resolution that could only be seen on huge TV’s. I agree with you there!
What’s the point of this article there’s no way in hell that’s going to happen Sony can’t afford to make another high tech machine, the next Playstation is going to be more of a PS3.5 instead of 4. And at the end of the article you even said so yourself that you don’t think it’s going to happen? who the hell would think it would!?. They’d be insane to think that, I’m not sure if the PS5 would be able to do that.
There was another article showing the PS3 running a screen at 2160p resolution and they needed to hook up 4 PS3′s together just to do that. Running 4320p is like having 8 PS3′s!….it’s not gonna happen that’s just stupid.
there is no way the ps4 will have a hi-vision. First of all no tv-set at the moment can project those resulotions. Also through the blue-rays failure (just 8% of the market) is another indication. The wii has showed the way for xbox and ps by outselling masively both of them
I dont think that sony will release the ps4 soon, they need to recover the money they lose on ps3 first.
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@jobs: Whether it will be soon or not is not the thing being debated. In fact, it’s release date is more of a speculative matter than anything else until Sony officials state the date themselves. The real discussion is whether or not the system will be able to handle a level of hi-definition that would practically not be noticed by the common people.
In my opinion, it’d be just stupid to spend money on such a thing. It might cost really expensive to develop the GPU for that. Also, optical media can only go so far… same goes for HDDs. A PS3 with two-to-four times the power re-branded as a PS4 with some new features (like better and more active motion sensing for instance or a PSP-like controller), which is actually a much more feasible target. Just saying though…
LOL, anyone that thinks Sonly lost money on PS3, even with lower sales than PS2 Sony made hundreds of millions in profit on PS3. They will be releasing PS4 as soon as the masses that buy these things can put together another few hundred in disposable income to pay for it. It will definitely be higher resolution because all average LCD and Plasma TV already support it. The crappy blocky images you see on current models TV’s are created by recompressed HD-DVD signals so when the marginally better inputs from a 2160p PS4 goes in uncompressed it will look 3x superior and actally noticible. It won’t be worth it, but the masses will buy it because they have been instructed to via the massive marketing campaign. The complete failure of HD-DVD is simply caused by the fact that non-masses, i.e., those that have money, will not buy into marginal incremental increases like the difference between DVD and HD-DVD, and are will wait for something significant, like 4320p or above. That will be PS5 at the least, which is going to be software installed on decent home computer. Just to let you all know.
It will be 1080p 60 frames for all games. Simple.
It will focus on 3D more than stupidly high resolutions.
You do know that you would need a 100 inch screen to even see the difference between the resolutions.
HDTV’s are not much more than large PC monitors with TV tuner built inside. So the sizes will most likely remain the same sizes, from 19′ to around 75′ retail, right? Just the RESOLOTION and the REFRESH rates will kept jacking up. Right? All Sony will have to do with the ps4 is what Microsoft ‘s done all along with it’s xbox and x360 consoles. IMPLEMENT A HARDWARE UPSCALER in all PS4′s. Ya’ll remember the X360′s ANA chip? Problem solved.
HI THERE SENSE THE PS4 WILL SUPORT ULTRA HIGH DEFINITION YOU THINK TV COMPANIES ARE WORKING ON ULTRA HIGH DIFINITION TVS
Oh c’mon. Any decent 1080p image rendered with AA will look just as good as a SHV image, with a fraction of the processing power.