Some companies have the audacity and vision to convert their view of the future in a consistent line of products and developments. RED is such a company.
RED tries to push the boundary of digital cinema, to create products that will allow high end professional film makers to have an all-digital process flow up to the projection of the movie in a cinema. The resolution required is called 4K, or 4096 x 2160 pixels per frame. With at least 24 frames per second the amount of data one must process is staggering.
Red has created a product called Red Ray which makes the playback of 4K cinema easier. The most interesting part is the use of high-end wavelet compression technology which potentially would enable the streaming of full 4K movies over a fiber link…to your home cinema. Current available bandwidths of 100 Mbps would easily acommodate such a stream.
All it takes is Moore’s law to continue for a couple of cycles, bringing the hardware costs down.
Imagine that, full 4K viewing at home….
(Source: Ars Technica)
