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The next gen HD/Surround Sound: Super Hi-Vision and 22.2 audio

This blew my tits off when I was surfing the net the other night. The next generation of High Definition (HD) TV and Surround sound is mind blowing.

Current HD is 1920 x 1080 pixels, 4 times bigger than a standard picture. However the proposed new specification is 7680 x 4320 - which because of square mathematics, is 16 times bigger/more detailed than current than HD. That's going to be a nightmare in terms to delivery because of the sheer amount of data bandwidth required, but I supposed by 2015 we'll all have 100GB broadband speeds anyway.

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