2160p HDTV - Will it be used in the next generation?

What uses less power:

2160p with 0 AA

-or-

1080p with 8x AA

[360nate]

Originally Posted by AlbinoNinja

I think it would be unneccesary.

unneccesary? yes
awesome? yes!!!

all of the luxuries in life are unneccesary

Originally Posted by 360nate

unneccesary? yes
awesome? yes!!!

all of the luxuries in life are unneccesary

Games and consoles are necessary.

[Romanc]

I believe the console generation after this will settle for comfortably running 1080p with all eye candy. 2160p will probably be a couple of generations down the road, maybe when 100" screens are becoming affordable....

[Power666]

Monitor resolutions will continually be increasing. I expect monitors beyond 2560 x 1600 to be shown off in January of next year using the new DisplayPort connector. They'll be PC centric upon launch but it'll only be a matter of time before TV's are made using them and consumer electronics start to upscale 1080p content to them.

it is also worth noting that HDMI 1.3 can go beyond 1080p resolution with a single link cable. I believe 1440p is supported with the enhanced color range (I wanna say 12 bit per channel but I could be wrong on this).

I'd say we'd benefit from not having to use AA at those resolutions but these days its not much of a performance hit anyways.

[webshark]

this is the kind of thing that really kind of pisses me off. i just did some research....

on a 50" screen, from 8 feet away, the BEST resolution human eyes can make out is 720p. what im saying here, is that for the given distance and size, 720p is the ABSOLUTE LIMIT the human eye can distinguish. upgrading to a 1080p only allows for you to see the same resolution quality (not better, cause that is IMPOSSIBLE) from half the distance or from twice the size screen.

ok, giving the above paragraph, there is ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE for a 2160p tv....seriously, are you going to watch a 50" from 2 feet away? and who the hell has space for a 200" tv?????

alot of this "HD" crap is really starting to get under my skin cause hardly anything is standardized and consumers are getting ripped off right and left.

idk who did that research... but they must of had some pretty crappy eyes.... You can easily see a difference between a 720p native tv set with a game outputting at a native of 720p vs. a 1080p set with a game out putting at a native 1080p on the same sized set. I throw in all that native crap because upscaling/downscaling really throws the whole thing off.

[webshark]

read the stuff bud, and remember my stipulations, on 50" at 8' away, humans cannot reliably distinguish anything better than 720p.
http://www.audioholics.com/education...-displays.html

I've seen a 1080p tv set and a 2560x1600 monitor running the same game off the same pc, both without using AA. At 5 feet I could def. see a difference, especially in the jaggy dept. Though maybe those last 3 feet make a big dif? Either way I trust experience first, especially when its my experience.

Edit* Just remembered my CRT monitor can do both 720p and 1080p in a cropped mode.... I could test the differences day and night I suppose.