Speaker 1: Welcome to brain Stuff from house stuff works dot com,
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Speaker 1: is getting used to h D t V and more
Speaker 1: than half of US households actually own a digital TV,
Speaker 1: manufacturers are starting to toy with the next big thing
Speaker 1: right now. It's called Ultra high Definition or u h D,
Speaker 1: and several companies are already selling u h D screens.
Speaker 1: A standard hd TV screen has nineteen twenty by ten
Speaker 1: e D pixels, or roughly two million pixels per frame,
Speaker 1: and Ultra high definition screen has four times that many pixels,
Speaker 1: or eight million pixels per frame. It's like putting four
Speaker 1: hd TV screens on a single display. The problem right
Speaker 1: now is that there really isn't that much video at
Speaker 1: that resolution to display on Ultra high Def TVs. Manufacturers
Speaker 1: end up demonstrating the TVs by putting up eight megapixels
Speaker 1: still images from digital cameras. Japan is working on the
Speaker 1: next step beyond that, called Super high Vision. It has
Speaker 1: four times as many pixels as Ultra High death, or
Speaker 1: thirty three million pixels per frame. At that resolution, It's
Speaker 1: hard to find even still cameras with enough pixels to
Speaker 1: fill the screen, but Japan claims that by tween, super
Speaker 1: high vision will be coming online. Do you have any
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