REDRAY player plays back 4K on regular DVD!

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: Ivan D Young
Post Time: 04-19-2008 at 07:30 AM
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This has not gotten more attention, This is probably the biggest story from NAB that no one is talking about. RED, the company of RED camera fame, are releasing in early 2009 a player that will have 4K and 2K output to displays from SD to 4K, ON regular 9gb DVD! The player will also down rez from 4K all the way down to 1080p, so if you don't have a Sony 4K projector just use your 1080p Set.
That is incredible if they can actually get it to work. If you are not aware of the RED camera and what they have done in the last two years with that, then this will sound like black magic to the uninformed. Their cameras can shoot 4K and 2K all digital files, the big draw back is there is not a player that can playback 2k and 4K files, without going proprietary. So they are going to create their own player, this will intersting to watch. This has huge implications for the film and media industries at large and no one caught on, wow!
here is the link to website.
http://www.red.com/nab/redray
http://www.red.com/

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